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Start with the previous research and information or facts completed thus far. Genealogy primary source databases provide three main pieces of information: Name, Time frame and Place. This is a genealogy website which brings together names and timeframes in relation to the region or placename. The placenames located within the Saskatoon Gen Web region can be found on the Saskatoon Gen Web Region map, or in the listing provided by Saskatchewan Gen Web Search Saskatchewan Placenames or in the Saskatoon Gen Web Town Resource Listing as follows:
To request assistance from others or place a query online use the Saskatoon Gen Web Region mailing list or the Saskatoon Gen Web Region posting board (also called a query board). Query Board Posting Hints and Mailing List Netiquette are two sources for those new to posting boards or mailing lists. Use the Saskatoon Gen Web surname posting board to gather information as well
As Saskatoon Gen Web grows and develops databases and information for this Central Saskatchewan area have been transcribed and placed online and can be found at the Saskatoon Gen Web Region Project. Obituaries, cemetery transcriptions, book transcriptions, historical photographs are a portion of what is comprised at the Saskatoon Gen Web Region Project As the WWW grows, links and resources from the internet have been included in the above Saskatoon Gen Web Town Resource Listing
If you are not sure which region of Saskatchewan your family research is rooted in, use the provincial Saskatchewan Gen Web and the Saskatchewan Gen Web Genealogy Resources. Saskatchewan Gen Web has a provincial getting started page. To assist in determining location the land patents and legal land desciptions for homesteaders can help. For homesteaders who came to farm in Saskatchewan check out homestead records for databases, and to explain how to use information from these database sources. Read the Homestead Section, Range, Township, Meridian numbering in tandem with map resources to help locate the town which was near the original homestead, then the Sask Gen Web regional resources can be utilized ie Saskatoon Gen Web. The town name will also provide a clue as to which local history/family biography book may also contain familial information. A look up volunteer who currently owns a copy of this book can provide information if your ancestor is recorded in one of these local history/family biography book commemorating the 75th anniversary of Saskatchewan.
Resources which are common to all provincial regions are found at Saskatchewan Gen Web 'Resources' and introduced on the provincial getting started page. Examples of provincial resources would be information from the provincial government such as Birth marriage or death certificates from the Department of Vital Statistics. Archival records from Saskatchewan provincial archives or Canadian National Archives would be another resource common to all regions. Provincial archives holds provincial or provincial government information such as applications and correspondence between homesteader and the provincial Government Land Titles Office, Biographies, Family Histories, Directories, Government Publications,Local Histories, Private Records, Oral History, Pioneer Questionnaires, Maps,Photographs, and Military Records. National Archives holds Government of Canada documents and has placed many of these online such as the Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906,Census of Canada, 1901, Dominion Land Grant Patents,.Soldiers of the First World War — Canadian Expeditionary Force, Post offices, Immigration Records, Home children, Arrivals at American Ports,Immigration Records - (1925-1935) Aboriginal Peoples Métis Scrip Records, British Home Children 1900 arrivals, and a website called Living Memory amongst others. Saskatchewan Gen Web Resources also encompasses: database projects, ethnic bloc settlements and immigration information, Saskatchewan societies, war and military resources, Church of Latter Day Saints Research, Library Resources, schools, Cemetery or obituary information and much more.
When doing research in the USA, perhaps the
SSDI is a
popular place to try to find some genealogical "clews", and in the various counties of England the 1881 census is fairly readily available through the Church of Latter Day Saints, LDS Family Research Centers,. And, similarly for many places, there are records which most easily and most readily used by genealogists in their research. So this is a note about where to find records to help your genealogical research in Saskatchewan,
both online and offline.
Present-day Saskatchewan named Rupert's Land
Many of the early settlers in the 1800's came as traders or hunters. The North West Company
was of French-Canadian extraction and traders arrived out west in Saskatchewan from Eastern
Canada via inland routes. The British (in 1670) had given Rupert's Land to the Hudson Bay Company which
gave the company dominion over lands where there was water passageway from the Hudson Bay.
These traders arrived to the Saskatchewan area via Hudson Bay and then travelling westward. In 1774
the first inland trading post (Cumberland House) was built in Saskatchewan. At this time northern
Saskatchewan was settled as southern Saskatchewan had experienced drought like conditions during
early explorer expeditions, and was considered a part of the US desert. This area is
north of the tree line in the geo-physical shield area.
Saskatchewan part of the North West Territories
Canada became a nation in 1867. Saskatchewan didn't become a province of Canada until 1905,
before this it was a part of the North
West Territories. The North West Territories was divided into provisional territories on
May 8, 1882. The south provisional district was named Assiniboia (currently south Saskatchewan),
The provisional district in central present-day Saskatchewan was named Saskatchewan. And
Athabaska was the provisional district of the North West Territories for the northern portion
of present day Saskatchewan. Maps
In the late 1800's and early 1900's the railway and the Dominion Government of Canada wanted
more settlers out west to unite Upper and Lower Canada -the eastern provinces of Canada with
British Columbia. The rail lines didn't want to lay track over land with no settlement as it wasn't
economically feasible. The demand for furs declined, the buffalo population declined, Saskatchewan
started noticing the agricultural land capabilies in the middle and southern portions of the
province, the drought was over. The population in Saskatchewan evolved from a trapping
community a farming community. Settlement, towns and rail lines developed the plains, or prairies, south of the tree line. Trasportation<
Immigrants were attracted to Saskatchewan by the
Homestead Act which granted a
quarter section or 160 acres to homesteaders if they could 'prove' the land in three years.
The Dominion Land Grant Patent records are searchable online at National Archives.
Homestead records (between Saskatchewan Land Titles office and the Homesteader) can be ordered
from Provincial Archives or on microfilm at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The first Canadian census
was taken in 1666, however census taking every 10 years began in 1851. 1881, 1901, and 1906 are the online censeii. Please check with your
local LDS family history center or check
library holdings for microfilm copies.
On the 75th anniversary celebration of Saskatchewan in 1980, many communities compiled
family biography - local history books. These have
biographical stories submitted by families in the area and write ups about the early history of the
community.
To find the book for your community, locate the town name on a
map. Using the
Canadian Geographical Locator,
the National Archives Post Office locator
or a historical map.
for smaller communities or towns which no longer exist. Early towns generally had a post office
and the location given by township and range can be located on the
Sask Wheat Pool 1924-1984 map site.
In this way, if you cannot find the town of your ancestor on present day maps, you can find the
current day community and larger centres (neighboring towns or cities) and know where to search.
Secondly, you may want to search one of the many online library catalogues by town to find the
name of the book for your ancestral research. This book may be available by
inter-library loan,
through the LDS family history centre, or
by purchase from the local community or online.
Some volunteers who own the book may have offered their time to do a
look up in the book, and you may wish to contact them via e-mail.
The World War I (1914-1918) expeditionary force can also be searched online at National Archives.
If you find an ancestor in this searchable database the file can be ordered from
National Archives.
Many cemetery records are online and searchable,
and some are in the process of being transcribed. The
Saskatchewan Genealogical Society
offers many research services, one of which is the Saskatchewan cemetery search as well as the Saskatchewan Residents Index.
The Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS family history
center) has its International Genealogical Index (IGI) as well as its Ancestral File Records.
They also have a multitude of "Family Search" resources available on Saskatchewan.
Birth, death, marriage certificates can be obtained from the
Department of Vital Statistics. Sometimes information can be obtained from the local churches,
libraries, or Community town offices, however they have limited research services available.
The Saskatchewan Genealogy Society, SGS has just offered a new website featuring hints, research tools, programs, events and supplies to help you in your genealogical research
There are many sources being placed online, and as they are submitted to me, or as I become
aware of them I try to place them on this website. For Saskatchewan, this should help you to
start out via this internet site, and branch off into areas for your particular family history
and your family's local interests as one link connects you to yet
another. I have had much success with the Google search
engine when locating Saskatchewan resources.
This is just a very very tiny introduction to some of the many online sites listed on the
Saskatchewan Genealogy Resources site. There are also many more online
as the internet grows and expands. If you find a site, or contact which has helped you with
your research, help other researchers, by e-mailing
it in to this Gen Web Project so we can add it to the Genealogy Resources page.
Check also the genealogy resource web pages available at the Archives,
libraries,
Church of Latter Day Saints, LDS Family Research Centers,
Rootsweband
Cyndi's list. These sites have many, many more resources than
those referenced to on this page.
You may wish to combine your online research at this site, and the sites it links to with a posting on
the various Saskatchewan
posting boards or Saskatoon Region posting board .
As well, post your research queries on the Saskatoon Region surname-query boards. Use the services provided by the
Saskatchewan Genealogy Society, SGS by attending
a meeting, taking out a membership and receiving their excellent publication, or using
their online resources. There are now 23 branches of the SGS serving the various regions of
Saskatchewan. Another online resource is to join a
mailing list group (Saskatoon Gen Web Mailing List) to connect with other researchers doing
family history research.
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