This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/7aB.2ACEAE/2314.1 Message Board Post: Grand Manan is in New Brunswick and they have their own website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbgrandm/ If you click on the Vital Records & Church sections, you'll find links to church records on Grand Manan. Ask the Site Admin, who lives out there and is VERY knowledgeable about the families. Finally, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick (PANB) has a guide to each County. In it they list the type of records they have, and go into further detail with microfilm numbers. There is a list specific for Charlotte County, NB, where Grand Manan is located. You may go to your local library and request to borrow up to 3 microfilms from PANB. The service is usually free. and is called the Inter Library Loan (ILL) program. Charlotte County data and info is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcharlo/ Use the search engine on the site. To learn about other vital records throughout Canada, visit the Canadian Genealogy Centre at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-906.006-e.html For that time period, if you need "proof", you may end up having to use a death certificate, obituary, tombstone photo, family bible, and census.