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1891 Census of Canada for Districts 197 (Southern Alberta) & 199 (Assiniboia West)

District of Alberta 1901 Census Index : An every name index to over 60,000 individuals enumerated in the 1901 Census of Canada for the Alberta District of the Northwest Territories.

1901 Victoria, British Columbia Census: Alberta and Northwest Territories Entries

1906 Census of the Northwest Provinces (Canada) : In order to track the high rates of population growth in western Canada, the Canadian government called for a special census of the prairie provinces (Manitoba, and the two newly created provinces of Saskatchewan, and Alberta). Through this research tool you can access digitized images of original census returns, which recorded the names of family members, their sex, marital status, year of immigration to Canada, post office address, etc. As this is not a nominally-indexed database, it is not searchable by family name. This search tool allows researchers to search by Province, District Name, District Number, and Sub-district Number.

1906 Census of Canada (Prairies) Transcriptions

Index to the 1906 Census of the Northwest Provinces (Canada.) An ongoing transcription project.

Index to the 1911 Census of Canada : Alberta.

Alberta, Canada Homestead Index 1870 - 1930. An all-name index to the homestead files on 685 reels of microfilm at the Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA).

Search The Local and Alberta Histories collection of the Alberta Heritage Digitization Project.

Southern Alberta Cemetery Listings

Alberta Newspapers Collection (Canada). The Early Alberta Newspaper collection will contain all Alberta newspapers. Both dailies and non-dailies included.

Alberta, Canada Local History Book Index of Indexes : This Local History Book Index of indexes contains 222,205 entries from 324 local history books.

Pioneer Families of Southern Alberta

Additional Pioneer Families of Southern Alberta

Alberta Birth, Marriage, Death Newspaper Announcements : 1883-1902, 1989, 1992, 1994. 1997

Local History Book Index: 200 Remarkable Alberta Women - Province of Alberta, Canada

Local History Book Index: Pioneers of the Peace - Various Communities and Counties Across North Western Alberta, Canada

Midwife-Assisted Births, Alberta & Saskatchewan, 1903-15. A list of births taken from the diary of a midwife, Susanna Giesbrecht (nee Goertzen). The entries were translated from their original German into English.

Alberta, Canada Cemetery Search. Index to nearly 120,000 cemetery records transcribed by the Alberta Family Histories Society.

Alberta Family Histories Society : Member Surname Interests

An Index to Southwestern Alberta Obituaries 1970 to 1984

Henderson's Northwest Gazetteer & Directory - 1899 - Alberta Rural Communities

Canadian Expeditionary Force Nominal Rolls (WW1) : 50th Battalion 1914-1915 (Calgary Regiment), and 3rd (Calgary, Edmonton and Medicine Hat), 12th (Calgary and Red Deer) and 13th (southwestern part of Alberta) Regiments Canadian Mounted Rifles 1915-1916

Local History Book Index: Peacemakers of the North Peace - Northwest Province, Canada. Covers both sides of the Alberta/British Columbia border :
- Part 1 - Surnames A-J, Part 2 - Surnames K-Z : Taylor Flat, Bear Flat, Farrell Creek, Sikanni & Nelson Trail, Upper Halfway, Grandhaven, Fort St. John, Sunrise, Two Rivers, Baldonnel, Peace View, Murdale, Montney, Fish Creek, Rose Prairie, North Pine, Pineview, Clayhurst, Cherry Point, Cecil Lake, Goodlow, Golata Creek, Upper Cache Creek, Hudson's Hope.
- Part 3 - Surnames A-Z : Hudson's Hope.

Albertans whose obituaries appeared in the Yukon News 1960 - 2000

Western Canada Baseball Players 1949-1961

CAN-ALB-OBITS Mailing List at RootsWeb. Topic: A mailing list for the posting of daily obituaries from the Province of Alberta, Canada. You can search the archives for a specific message or browse them.

CAN-MHSA Mailing List at RootsWeb. Topic: Discussing and sharing of information regarding the history of Alberta, Canada Mennonites and the activities of the Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta (Canada). You can search the archives for a specific message or browse them.

Alberta Genealogy Mailing List at RootsWeb. Subscribe for free, search the archives for a specific message or browse them, going from one message to another.


  • Athabasca (Census Division)

    Name index to the book Ramblings .... River, Roads, and Prose. Covering Peers, McLeod Valley (previously known as Stony Flats), Mahaska, Shining Bank, Pella, Pinedale, Rosevear, Fulham, Haddock, Bear Lake, Whitecourt. Published by The Peers and Districts History Book Committee (Alberta, Canada.)


  • Barnwell

    Barnwell History (Alberta, Canada). Free online edition of this book published in 1952. Includes over 200 pages of family histories and genealogies. Barnwell is a village in the Municipal District of Taber, southern Alberta.


  • Beaumont

    Beaumont : Histoire de Beaumont et district, 1885-1960. History of Beaumont, Alberta, Canada with a 317 page biography section. Published in both French and English by the Beaumont History Book Committee in 1985.


  • Beiseker

    Beiseker's Golden Heritage (Alberta, Canada). Online edition of this book filled with family histories published by the Beiseker Historical Society in 1977.


  • Big Valley

    As we remember Big Valley (Alberta, Canada). Free online edition of this book published in 1974.


  • Brooks

    Brooks, Alberta, Canada Obituary Index. The primary purpose of this Index is to show the Place of Birth of those persons from the Brooks area whose death was reported in The Brooks Bulletin, The Chronicle or the Calgary Herald and includes the persons’ names, date of birth and date of death.


  • Calgary

    Calgary, Alberta, Canada Crematorium Records, 1937-1979

    Henderson's North West Gazetteer & Directory, 1884 : Calgary, Alberta.

    1885 Business Directory of Calgary

    Henderson's North West Towns Directory, 1886-87 : Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

    Gronlunds Directory of the City of Calgary & District - 1902 - Rural Communities (Alberta, Canada)

    Calgary Loyalists (Alberta, Canada)

    The Anglican Church in Calgary : church activities, 1878-1974 : accounts (Alberta, Canada). Images online of a book published in 1975.

    Jewish Genealogical Society of Southern Alberta Calgary Cemetery Project Database


  • Cardston

    Town of Cardston, Alberta, Canada Roll of Honor World War I and World War II. Names on the Town of Cardston Cenotaph.


  • Carstairs

    Beyond our Prairie Trails. Online edition of this local history book published by the Carstairs History Book Committee in 1995 : Community history - Family histories


  • Cold Lake

    Cold Lake & District Obituaries 1999-2002 (Alberta, Canada)

    CAN-AB-CLGC Mailing List at RootsWeb. Topic: Discussing and sharing of information regarding the activities of the Cold Lake & District Genealogy Club in the Municipal District of Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada, and genealogical resources available in the Cold Lake area. You can search the archives for a specific message or browse them.


  • Cypress County

    Cypress County, Alberta Cemeteries


  • Edmonton

    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Cemeteries. Database of people interred more than 25 years ago (close to 60,000 people) that are in Edmonton Municipal Cemeteries.

    The cathedral church of All Saints, Edmonton : 1875-1935. Online edition of this commemorative book. Includes a transcription of memorials within the church.


  • Foothills

    Foothills, Alberta, Canada Miscellaneous References


  • Kelsey

    As the wheels turn : a history of Rosalind, Kelsey and districts (Alberta, Canada). Free online edition of this book published by the Rosalind and District History Book Committee around 1982.


  • Lethbridge

    1891 Lethbridge Census Index to the 1891 Dominion Census, Lethbridge Sub-District, Alberta, Northwest Territories

    Lethbridge Herald Obituaries, Alberta, Canada : 1905, 1906, 1929, 1960-1977.

    The Bend: A History of West Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada). Online edition of this book published in 1982. Consists mainly of family histories.


  • Merna

    As the wheel turns : a history of Merna and district (Alberta, Canada). Free online edition of this book published in 1971.


  • Millarville

    Christ Church Cemetery Index, Millarville, Alberta, Canada 1992


  • Rosalind

    As the wheels turn : a history of Rosalind, Kelsey and districts (Alberta, Canada). Free online edition of this book published by the Rosalind and District History Book Committee around 1982.


  • Spruce Grove

    As the roots grow : the history of Spruce Grove and district (Alberta, Canada). Free online edition of this book published by the Spruce Grove Public Library in 1979.


  • Youngstown

    Cemetery Register of Youngstown, Alberta, Canada, 1913-2000



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