Helpful Sites

Government Records

Alberta Adoption Records
Alberta Land Titles
Alberta Legislature Library
Alberta’s Historic Resource Information (HeRMIS – A central gateway for virtual visitation of Alberta’s heritage and cultural collections)
Alberta Vital Statistics
Canada Citizenship and naturalization records
Canadian Postal Codes
Edmonton Municipal Cemeteries
Provincial Archives of Alberta
Provincial Archives of Alberta, Historic Vital Statistics
RETROactive (official blog of Historic Resources Management Branch of Alberta Culture and Tourism)
Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
Library and Archives Canada (Collections Search)
Genealogy and Family History
Home Children (Ship’s passenger index of children sent from Great Britain)
Immigration Records
Post Office Database
Western Land Grants (1870 – 1930)
Soldiers of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force
Canadian Directories
Digitized Images of Canadian Censuses (1825 - 1931)

Libraries/Archives

Alberta Folklore and Local History
Anglican Church of Canada Archives
Edmonton City Archives
Edmonton Public Library
Edmonton Public Library/Genealogy
Glenbow Museum and Archives
Glenbow Archives, CPR Land Database
The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Military Museum
United Church of Canada Archives Network
University of Alberta Archives
University of Alberta Libraries
University of Calgary Archives and Special Collections
University of Calgary Digital Collections

Other helpful websites

Alberta GenWeb
The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project
Alberta Homestead Index  (Alberta Genealogical Society)
Alberta Records Name Index (ARNI)  (Alberta Genealogical Society)
Alberta Ukraine Genealogical Project
Alberta White Pages Search
Automated Genealogy (Canadian Census Records)
Alberta 411 White Pages Search
Canada 411 (Free people search and reverse phone lookup)
Canadian Geographical Names
CNR Historical Map: Alberta – early 1900
Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Edmonton Journal Obituaries
Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta
Alberta & British Columbia newspaper Indexes, Military information and more.
Obituary Daily Times (includes Edmonton Journal extracts from September 1995)
Our Roots
Peace River Land Settlement
Peel’s Prairie Provinces (Digitized, Indexed Prairie newspapers and directories)
Photos of Alberta and Saskatchewan grave markers
Stockmen’s Memorial Foundation