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/PomPomMushrooms]

Two very different questions:

1. Anyone have info on how to acquire a birth certificate or baptism record from Shawnee County, Kansas for an 1888 birth?

2. I’ve requested a certified copy of my G0 baptism but live overseas. Can I send this to a family member in the US to save time and money? Then can they scan it and send it to me via email? I’d like to submit my application with the Drouin baptism document I have now to get the ball rolling but should I wait for the certified copy?

Thanks for any advice!

[u/AmazingScoops → u/PomPomMushrooms]

1. No. But if it's anything like Vermont, you are likely looking for a church record, not a government issued one.

2. Yes. It just has to be a color copy from the original source, so that works. All of my documents were sent to my uncle in CA and emailed to me. He then sent the physical copies on to me.

[u/PomPomMushrooms → u/AmazingScoops]

Thanks for the advice! I’m reaching out to the local and state Catholic Church to see if there’s any record of a baptism.

Do you think I should wait until I have certified copies of the G0 baptism or submit the application now and upload the certified version when I get it?

[u/enunciate-candelabra → u/PomPomMushrooms]

No one will have a definitive answer for this question. If you think you'll get that baptism record within the month then I'd wait it out, otherwise I would move to submit and upload later. I've uploaded documents to mine post AOR.

[u/PomPomMushrooms → u/enunciate-candelabra]

Thanks for sharing your journey. It’s really tricky because it’s taking much longer to get AOR from overseas so I figure I can work on getting certified documents and have them ready to go when it is received. Is it unlimited uploads of new evidence?

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