Always ask first amongst the local people, before you start a long search over a whole year or several years of newspapers. There are little odds and ends of indexes available, so ask in the area where the event took place. Many local area museums and historical societies have patiently indexed some of their local vital events from newspapers. Even in the larger city of Victoria, there exists an index for a large chunk of newspaper announcements, early twentieth century for the Times newspaper, owned by the Archives of the City of Victoria, and this is online. As for a Vancouver newspaper, for first half of twentieth century you are probably best to try the Province first, not the Sun. The older paper, the Province, was the larger of the two daily newspapers at that time. It became a tabloid late in the century. One very frustrating thing is to run into one of the strike periods, in the 1970s I think it was. These lasted for months, and since Pacific Press owned both the daily papers, there were no births/marriages/deaths printed for that time. But look carefully, if you run into a strike period. Because sometimes they printed a great many delayed death announcements, and sometimes an alternative newspaper was printed here and there during the strike. Don't give up til you've checked with the locals! Claudia Cole Independent Research Agent 304 - 1960 Lee Avenue Victoria BC V8R 4W8 Canada 250 598-7859 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Peter Goff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [CAN-BC] Births, Deaths & Marriages 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. > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== Visit the British Columbia Gen Web page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbc/ -- 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