Research in Vancouver area and Fraser Valley, British Columbia

Question

Hi all,

I'm Erin, and I'm willing to help anyone who would like on-the-ground research assistance in the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley areas.

If there's something you need, message me and I'll try my best to do/get it.

Things I can do for certain include:

Answer general questions about British Columbia and how to find records and resources.

Take headstone photography requests for cemeteries in Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, and North Vancouver with quick turnaround. Other parts of Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley may take a few weeks.

Visit archives, libraries, and museums in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.

I look forward to hearing from anyone who would like my help!

Comments

Yay Erin!  Mags

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Hi Erin :) Happy New Year

Gosh there are so many offers of help on here at the moment ~ it truly warms my heart seeing all you generous folk putting yourselves out there  Thank you so much!

 

Answer 1

Hi everyone. I will be willing to assist anyone in Arkansas or tenneessee and some parts of Mississippi. Thanks William Cato 157

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Hi William,

Thanks for offering to help in your area! Could you please make your own posting in G2G so others can find you more easily? If you need help getting that set up, let me know and I'll give you a hand.

Erin

Answer 2

Hey, Erin,

Where the BC Archives site gives a registration number, but doesn't have a scan online, is there some way to get a scan locally?

For instance, in my great-aunt's case, the BC Archives site lists her death certificate as: 1921-09-290134 but there's no scan.

Greg

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Oddly enough, Family Search has images/scans for a lot of the earlier certificates that aren't available on the BC Archives site. I took a look for the registration number on BC Archives to find your aunt's name, and then looked her up by name in Family Search's British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986 collection. There's an image available for her death certificate.

If there is a scan you can't find on either the BC Archives site or Family Search, the main branch of the Vancouver public library may have it on microfilm. (Here's their page about civil registrations on microfilm.) There are a bunch of other libraries in the province that have the collection, too, but my Google skills are failing me at the moment.

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I have found the staff at the Cloverdale Branch of the Surrey library are great, and will try to look up the microfilm and send you whatever they find.