Dear Cornish cousins Many Cornish people came to British Columbia to work in the mines, to search for gold, to farm or find a new life. The BC Archives has just uploaded more than 70,000 scanned and indexed documents relating to BMDs in the province. In the past, indexes were available, but now you can see, free online, the actual image of the original document, which may provide extra information. Phase I of the project is complete: Births 1854-1903 Deaths 1872-1991 Marriages 1872-1936 Phase II to be complete by the end of this year will add more information and images, and some pre-1872 records, and deaths overseas during WWII. And each year, the records of one year will be added as the number of years elapsed moves along. Access to the new images is through the Royal BC Museum, rather than the Archives, so bookmark the URL below. It's likely to be busy for the next few days since it's new, so if you can't get through come back later, maybe when BC researchers are asleep ;-) See a sample document here: http://www.keele.ac.uk/history/currentundergraduates/tltp/WOMEN/HANNAM/TEXT/HAN156A.HTM Access - http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/BasicSearch enjoy Fran Aitkens Victoria BC Canada and OPC for St Ewe, Cornwall