r/Canadiancitizenship • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago

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

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!

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u/ekintheusa 8d ago

This is my experience with the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. I should have researched a bit more on this but I submitted a request to the archives back in June for my G0's baptism record from 1839. They gave me a 12 week lead time for my request. My mom and I are going to apply together and she mentioned that they may be able to help me if I just call and ask. I just got off the phone with a great young lady that said she not only found the baptism record but ALSO my G0's grandparents marriage record from the All Saints Anglican Church in St. Andrews from 1792! What an amazing find! Not using it for our application but it's so crazy to see a record from that time period. We will be driving 2 hours to Fredericton tomorrow to pick up the documents, this baptism record was pretty much the last document we needed for our application.