Research of Jewish ancestry and wartime Jewish emigrants from Europe has approaches in common with other immigrants' Research area of Poland, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia.

Oct 19, 2009

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Murder and Mayhem: A look at Coroner's Records at the B.C. Archives. Some famous B.C. accidents and incidents, and look at how coroner's records can be used to research family history.

Tracing Forward to Find Distant Cousins -- Stymied in your search for distant cousins, descendants, living relatives? Tracing subsequent generations can be difficult, because people leave clues regarding where they are from, but not necessarily where they are going to. That doesn't mean it's impossible, because there are plenty of sources that will help you. Includes a list of Web sites to use.
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The Nanaimo Family History Society Passenger Lists Indexing Project

Our passenger list project is a volunteer program; an on-going program of indexing the microfilmed manifests of Canadian passenger ships arriving in the Ports of Quebec from 1900 to 1921.  We now have 588,213 names in the data base from 1085 ships. At present the index covers the period 7 Oct 1905 to 13 October 1910 for Quebec ports, and we are adding about 150,000 names each year. Access to the index is free to all researchers and we have a link to the original manifests on the Library and Archive Canada site. 

Our Society has received congratulations and mention in several newsletters, magazines and journals around the world. Messages from researchers who have used our website and found their family in our database makes us feel the efforts of our indexers are worthwhile.

As with all organizations relying on volunteers, we need help indexing these films.  Anyone who feels that they have an interest and an hour or two each week to help will be more than welcome to join our group.

Indexing is done from your home computer and, when the file is completed, it is sent to the club computer.  

Have a look at our online database: http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/

If you are interested in joining the index team send an email to:

nanaimo.fhs@shaw.ca  

 On the Ships List page the first paragraph needs altering as above but the second paragraph is OK.

Page updated September 19, 2009