Victoria Genealogical Society's
RECOMMENDED GENEALOGY LINKS

VICTORIA AND AREA
GENEALOGY SITES

Victoria, BC, Canada -
Our beautiful inner harbour
and Parliament Buildings
(BC Archives nearby)

• Archives - City of Victoria
• Archives - Esquimalt Municipality
• Archives - Oak Bay Municipality
• Archives - Saanich Municipality
• Archives and Museum - Sidney Township
• Archives and Museum - Sooke Region
• CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum
• Craigflower Connections and
  Craigflower - Teaching Learning and Farming
• Families in BC History The Crease Family
• Fisgard Light House
• Friends of the BC Archives
• Fort Rodd Hill
• Government House History
• Greater Victoria Public Library and GVPL Genealogy Subject Guide
  - A list of links and resources for local, BC and Canadian research
• Gray Family History
• Hallmark Society
• Hatley Park Museum
• Helmcken House
• Heritage Victoria - Victoria Heritage Attractions Information Directory
• Historical Building Site for Victoria, B.C.
• Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Victoria
• Hudson Bay Company employees and their 'country wives' pioneer settlers Vancouver Island BC
• Metchosin History
• Oak Bay History
• Old Cemeteries Society of Victoria
• Point Ellice House and Point Ellice House Heritage
• Saanich Historical Artifacts Society
• Saanich Pioneer Society
• St Ann's Academy
• United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada, Victoria Branch
• UVic Libraries Archives and  UVic Libraries Gateway
• Victoria City - History of the City of Victoria
• Victoria Fire Department Historical Society
• Victoria Heritage Attraction Directory
• Victoria Historical Society
• Victoria Police History
• Victoria's Victoria - Index of Historical Victoria Newspapers
• Victoria Self-Guide Heritage Walks

VANCOUVER ISLAND & GULF ISLANDS
GENEALOGY SITES

• Bamberton Historical Society
• BC Aviation Museum History
• British Colonist Newspaper
• Campbell River Genealogy Society
• Campbell River Museum
• Chemainus History
• Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
• Comox Valley Family History Research Group
• Comox Museum
• Courtney and District Museum
• Cowichan Bay History
• Cowichan Valley Museum
• Cumberland Museum and Archives
• Gabriola Museum
• Galiano Museum
• Nanaimo Family History Society
• Nanaimo Community Archives
• Nanaimo Museum
• Port Alberni Heritage
• Qualicum Beach Family History Society
• Salt Spring Island Archives
• Sidney Museum and Archives
• VI GenWeb Project
• Vancouver Island (VI) History
• Vancouver Island Message Board

VGS MEMBER WEBSITES

• Paula Carr - Carr family (Sydney Mines, Cape Breton NS), Ellis family (Nottinghamshire), deGrish family (Trinity, NFL), and the Glendinning family (Somerset, Gloucestershire).
• Hugh Doherty - researching Doherty, Cleveland, Hulbert, Hayward, McLellan, Wells in Ire, Eng, Canada (NS, NB), US; Brundrige in Canada (MB,SK), US; McKitrick and McTaggart in IRE, Canada (QC, ON, BC), Inishowen Penninsula, Co. Donegal, IRE.
• Dave Obee - Dave Obee's Family History Page; also visit his Interlink Bookshop and CanGenealogy sites.
• John Carruthers - Descendants of Edward Carrothers (1723-1800)

Our Members Surname Interest Index is available on this site, helping you connect with members researching the same names.

BC GENEALOGY SITES

• BC Archives
• BC Births, Marriages, Deaths
  - BC Archives Vital Event Index Search Page
  Birth registrations: 1872 - 1903
  Marriage registrations: 1872 - 1933
  Deaths: 1872 - 1988
  More recent events are not available to the public, even if they are indexed.. 
  Copies of these more recent registrations must be ordered directly from the BC Vital Statistics Agency.
• BC City Directories Database 1860-1940
  - through the Vancouver Public Library.
• BC Archival Information Network
  - A Guide to Archival Repositories in BC.
• BC Black History Awareness Society
• BC Cemetery Finding Aid
• BC GenWeb
• BC Genealogical Society
• BC Genealogical Society E-Newsletter The Offspring
• BC's Heritage Experiences
• BC Historical Federation
• BC History Internet/Web Site Federation
• BC International Digital Library
• BC Message Board
• BC-Newspapers-Obituaries
• BC History Portal
• BC Place Names
• BC Vital Statistics Agency 
• Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC
• 5th (BC) Field Regiment, RCA Band
• The Gold Rush Town of Yale
• Homeroom - BC Education History
• Legislative Library of BC
• Maritime Museum of BC
• Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia
• Powell River Genealogy Group
• Vancouver Archives
• Vancouver Historical Society

CANADIAN GENEALOGY SOCIETIES

• Alberta Genealogical Society
• Saskatchewan Genealogical Society
• Manitoba Genealogical Society
• Ontario Genealogical Society
• Quebec Family History Society
• Société Généalogique de l'Est du Québec (SGEQ)
• La Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie
• New Brunswick Genealogical Society
• Nova Scotia Genealogy Network Association
• Prince Edward Island Genealogical Society
• Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogical Society
• NWT and Nunavut Genealogy
• Yukon Territories Genealogy

The Library and Archives Canada site has a more comprehensive list of Genealogy Societies in Canada.

CANADIAN GENEALOGY SITES

• 1881 Census of Canada
• 1891 Census of Canada
• Automated Genealog - 1901 & 1911 Canadian Censuses
• Canada GenWeb
• Canada Census Online
• Canadian Genealogy & History Links
• Canadian Genealogy Centre
• Canadian Headstone Photo Project
• Canadian Military and Peacekeeping Databases
• Canadian Websites on Rootsweb
• Federated Search Engine
  - Databases of Canadian interest - compiled by Library and Archives Canada and the Quebec counterpart Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ).
• Hudson's Bay Company Archives
• Library and Archives Canada
• Manitoba Vital Statistics
• Nova Scotia - Access to Nova Scotia Genealogy Records
• Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid
• Ontario Genealogy Records and Indexes
• Our roots - Canada's local histories online.
• PEI Island Register - PEI genealogy lineages and documents.
• Young Immigrants To Canada