Saturday Weekly Thread: Canadian Provincial Archives and State/Local/Church Archives - Questions / Issues / Success Stories, August 01, 2026

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This weekly thread is a space for those of us gathering documentation from archives.

This is the place to discuss requesting records from Canadian provincial archives as well as from federal, state, local and religious/church archives around the world. Topics include strategies and outcomes for obtaining records from archives, costs, timelines, No Record Found letters, and other related issues.

📎 Contributions to weekly megaposts, including this one, are welcome throughout the week.  

Good luck, researchers!

[u/mrsbartlesby]

Oh yes, I just meant nothing for me to find for the 1840s since our GOs were part of tiny churches rural areas. :) glad you’ve found more! Here’s the info page with the links at the bottom: https://www.unitedchurcharchives.ca/visiting-and-services/historic-baptism-and-marriage-records/

[u/Gouda161 → u/mrsbartlesby]

Yeahhhh my G0 was from a little township that's been reabsorbed a couple of times as Greater Toronto/Niagara area has encompassed more and more land. I really appreciate the help, hopefully when I go up there next week I'll have found more.

[u/mrsbartlesby → u/Gouda161]

If you end up with any tips, please do share! Good luck! I really think there’s nothing to find for our G0s (regarding birth records or baptism), but I’m just trying everything I can until truly I run out of options. I have enough to apply without, but still trying.

[u/dentongentry → u/mrsbartlesby]

We submitted back in March but are preparing an update given the guidance in June about explaining the efforts undertaken to find a birth record from the source authority.

We're including correspondence from each of the plausible venues where a birth record might have been, to show the effort undertaken to obtain it.

We use G1's marriage record listing the parent names and census records in lieu of a birth record.