Hi Please can someone tell me how I could frin Births, Deaths & Marriages in the Vancouver area between 1920 and 1940. Is there anything on line as I am in England Thanks in advance Helen

Hi Helen, The Provincial Archives of British Columbia - has the Vital Events Index online: Marriage 1859 - 1929 - Birth 1872 - 1903 - Death: 1872 - 1984. http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-DB1149/gbsearch/Births,Marriages,Deaths There are Volunteers at the Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness -British Columbia http://www.raogk.org/bcolumbia.htm Any who offer Lookups of Public Record - can View,Transcribe or Copy the information from the filmed registrations. There is no fee - although some may charge to cover their cost of copies [.50 cents or under - depending on copy machine costs ] and /or postage. Some offer search for Obituaries *Funeral home may also hold this information . Others offer Cemetery Photo's. Cheers, Stella At 03:19 PM 3/29/2005, Bill and Helen wrote: >Hi >Please can someone tell me how I could frin Births, Deaths & Marriages in >the Vancouver area between 1920 and 1940. >Is there anything on line as I am in England >Thanks in advance >Helen > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== >To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia Vital Records >are at >http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca:9000/sn-301BDDB/bsearch >These records are freely available and there are several possibilities for >accessing them at a low cost.

ANOTHER SOURCE: If you have a Latter Day Saints church with a Family History Library near you in England, you can also order the microfilm reels in yourself through them. But you use the GSU film number, instead of the BC Archives film number. Or you could try interlibrary loan through your local lending library, for a small fee. It was the Latter Day Saints who arranged for, and paid for the microfilming of these records, and it was volunteers from the Victoria Genealogy Society who input the data for the index you see online. I would bet the people who worked so hard on making these records easily and cheaply available to the public are annoyed that such a high price is being charged by a commercial group for a photocopy. The first thing anyone sees online with the index is a button to click to buy a copy at an exhorbitant price. That button SHOULD say, CLICK HERE FOR THE RIP-OFF PRICE If you want a large batch of the records, there are plenty of ways to get them at a price most people can afford. Claudia Cole Independent Research Agent 304 - 1960 Lee Avenue Victoria BC V8R 4W8 Canada 250 598-7859 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Bill and Helen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CAN-BC] Births, Deaths & Marriages Hi Please can someone tell me how I could frin Births, Deaths & Marriages in the Vancouver area between 1920 and 1940. Is there anything on line as I am in England Thanks in advance Helen ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia Vital Records are at http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca:9000/sn-301BDDB/bsearch These records are freely available and there are several possibilities for accessing them at a low cost. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 3/27/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 3/27/2005

Hi Helen, To add further to what others have kindly sent you, there is one more option for getting BMD registrations from B.C. if you have no luck with a volunteer. Go to Don Crawfords site at http://members.shaw.ca/copies/ where for £3.00 GBP per registration Mr. Crawford can get it for you. If you e-mail him the info then send your payment, then the turn around time is much faster. I have no interest in Mr. Crawfords enterprise except as a very happy customer. Also BMD Registrations give much more info than BMD Certificates here in B.C. Best of luck in your research Helen......... Cheers, Bridget in Canada GlamFHS # 5865 I transcribe for www.freebmd.rootsweb.com I use www.archivecdbooks.ca to help in my research ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill and Helen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:19 PM Subject: [CAN-BC] Births, Deaths & Marriages > Hi > Please can someone tell me how I could frin Births, Deaths & Marriages in > the Vancouver area between 1920 and 1940. > Is there anything on line as I am in England > Thanks in advance > Helen > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia Vital Records > are at > http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca:9000/sn-301BDDB/bsearch > These records are freely available and there are several possibilities for > accessing them at a low cost. > >

Because the vital statistics have such long closure periods (not like UK where we go to 1837 to 2003 for all events seemingly without privacy problems) the only way to find events out side the date ranges is to trawl the newspapers. I think you would look in the Vancouver Sun - can a BC resident confirm. I managed to find a 1938 marriage this way, it is time consuming and you need the willingness of a fellow BC lister or a RAOK member. I too am in UK Peter G >-----Original Message----- >From: Bill and Helen [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: 30 March 2005 00:20 >To: [email protected] >Subject: [CAN-BC] Births, Deaths & Marriages > > >Hi >Please can someone tell me how I could frin Births, Deaths & Marriages >in the Vancouver area between 1920 and 1940. >Is there anything on line as I am in England >Thanks in advance >Helen > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== >To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia >Vital Records are at >http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca:9000/sn->301BDDB/bsearch >These >records are freely available and there >are several possibilities for accessing them at a low cost. > >