Ancestry updates Alberta BMD Indexes

With the passage of time provinces release extra index data for their civil registrations. It was December 2017 when I last noted that Ancestry had updates for Alberta BMDs. Two years are now added with data sourced from the Provincial Archives of Alberta in Edmonton.

Alberta, Canada, Births Index, 1870-1898 now has 8,961 records, augmented with 2,294 index records. It provides name, birth year, birthplace and certificate number.

Alberta, Canada, Marriages Index, 1898-1944 has 399,584 records,  15,614 additional index records. The index provides name, gender, marriage year, marriage place, spouse name and certificate number. 

Alberta, Canada, Deaths Index, 1870-1968 has 594,246 records — 26,846 index additions. It provides name, gender, exact death date, death place and certificate number.

The provincial archives website provides indexes for even more recent years. Check out https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/index.php/how-to/find-birth-marriage-and-death-records for images of paper copies of indexes to 1901 for births, 1946 for marriages, and 1971 for deaths. There's also an index to stillbirth registration from 1914 to 1946.