There is no such thing as a comprehensive list of genealogical web sites,
so we have chosen to list a few of particular interest to Saskatchewan genealogists,
or ones which just strike our fancy.
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City of Regina Archives
www.regina.ca/content/info_services/archives
The Regina city archives is not well known, yet there is much in its collection
of interest to genealogists and local historians.
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Saskatchewan Archives
www.saskarchives.com
The government archives for the province of Saskatchewan |
Saskatchewan Legislative Library
www.legassembly.sk.ca/LegLibrary
The Legislative Library is open to the public. Special collections of interest to
genealogists include Local Histories, Weekly Newspapers, and Biographies of
Parliamentarians, not to mention an exhausive collection of government publications.
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ISC - Saskatchewan Land Registry
www.isc.ca
A registry of all land titles in Saskatchewan from the homestead era to the present.
Maps and plans for all land parcels are linked to titles.
Display of title detail requires payment, but searches are free.
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Woodland Aerial Photography
www.woodlandaerialphoto.com
Doug Chisholm is a northern Saskatchewan bush pilot who researches Canadian military history. He has photographed many of the 3800 geographic features in Saskatchewan named in memory of men and women from the province who died in World War II.
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Our Roots -- Canada's Local Histories Online
www.ourroots.ca
Canadian local histories in French and English, completely digitized:
"a library, archive, museum and school all in one"
The site is free and the search engine is fast.
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Maple Leaf Legacy Project
www.mapleleaflegacy.org
This project has the modest aim of photographing the graves
of more than 150,000 Canadian war dead worldwide.
As of April 28 2007, 101,830 headstones have been photographed.
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Library and Archives Canada
www.collectionscanada.ca
The National Library of Canada and Archives Canada have combined
to make a wealth of primary sources available online.
Included is an area entitled the Canadian Genealogy Centre.
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Castle Garden
www.castlegarden.org
America's First Immigration Center
This site offers free access to an extraordinary database on
10 million immigrants
who passed through Ellis Island from 1830 to 1892. |
United States Vital Records Information
www.vitalrec.com
The most comprehensive resource for locating American vital records on the internet |
Paper of Record
www.paperofrecord.com
A huge searchable collection of newspaper image documents presented in their
original form. There are currently 21 million images and the number is growing.
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Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps
A huge collection of maps from all around the world, online, for free. |
Rootsweb
www.rootsweb.com
"The oldest and largest FREE genealogy site." Say no more.
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Cyndi's List
www.cyndislist.com
A huge categorized collection of nothing but links to genealogical websites.
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