Alberta BMD Searchable Indices Online?

Question

Are there searchable indices for Alberta, Canada BMDs besides the provincial archives (http://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/how-to/find-birth-marriage-death-records/Default.aspx)?  And/or transcribed records?  The Alberta Archives site only has pdf scans of the registrations and then you have to order a copy of the record. Behind the times compared to other jurisdictions.

Found some related links pages that might help on tangential searches:

Blog on researching Alberta land grants, nice writeup - https://genealogybeyondthebmd.blogspot.com/2016/01/making-it-in-alberta.html

Links page for Alberta-related genealogy - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx0z9dlzDrDwYm01ZGJza0NBUEU/view

Answer 1

While I agree that Alberta is behind the times, the availability of those records is recent. About 7 years ago, in an in-person visit to the archives I was denied access to my grandparents' 1919 marriage record, though I was allowed to get help from another archives user to find a newspaper announcement of the wedding.

If we keep asking, surely some more change can be brought about.

Answer 2

https://digitallibrary.uleth.ca/digital/collection/herald

An archive of the Lethbridge Herald newspaper published between 1905-1967 in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Note: 1908-1926 files are currently being separated into the Lethbridge Herald and the Lethbridge Daily Herald.

Answer 3

Southern Alberta genealogy site for pioneers - lots of short biographies

Southern Alberta Pioneers and their Descendants
http://www.pioneersalberta.org/our-history.html