Canadian Census Indices
February 3, 2010 by Luxegen Genealogy and Family History
Filed under Canada, Census
Volunteers have been transcribing census data from microfilm held at the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) over the past few years. Automated Genealogy hosts the data of the various census projects.
Anyone can participate as a proofreader, transcriber, or by submitting corrections as they use the site. There is a link to the LAC image of [...]
Irish Family History Foundation
December 23, 2009 by Luxegen Genealogy and Family History
Filed under Ireland, UK & Ireland, genealogy
The Irish Family History Foundation recently announced that there are now over 230,000 new records in their database including birth, census, marriage and gravestone records.
County Antrim -25,000 Church of Ireland birth records
County Armagh – almost 2,000 records from the 1821 census records
County Down – 3000 Church of Ireland birth records
County Leitrim -18,000 [...]
Ages on Canadian Census Reports
February 8, 2009 by Luxegen Genealogy and Family History
Filed under Canada
Jean Lawson, a Genealogist on the Quebec Eastern Township Rootsweb forum brought us the following very helpful list of the ‘official enumeration dates’ for each Canadian census. It is possible these dates were ignored in some cases or ages incorrectly calculated but for the most part these would be the dates that were used to calculate ages [...]
