Genealogy     Databases (Library Card required)     Ancestry Library Edition Search for your ancestors in this made-for-libraries edition of the popular Ancestry.com database. Includes birth, death, marriage, immigration and military records, ships' passenger lists, as well as images and indexes for Canadian, U.K. and U.S. census records and a growing number of photos and family trees. Available in-library only.     Recommended Websites     BC Cemetery Finding Aid This database contains the surnames, cemetery names and locations of more than 344,000 entries collected from headstone inscriptions from cemeteries in BC and Canada. BC Vital Statistics Agency Check out the electronic index to BC’s historical birth, death and marriage records. Birth records are available 120 years after date of birth, marriage records 75 years after date of marriage, and death records 20 years after date of death. NOTE: Microfilm copies can be viewed at the Library. Canadian Genealogy Centre A gateway to Canada’s genealogical resources provided by Library and Archives Canada. It offers genealogical content, advice, services and research tools such as AVITUS, their searchable directory of Canadian genealogical resources. Cyndi’s List A good starting point for genealogy research. This is a comprehensive categorized and cross-referenced index to genealogical resources in the internet. Rootsweb Another large website with categorized links to online genealogical resources. That's My Family One-stop searching of online indexes to national, provincial, and territorial records (Canadian). The British Colonist Newspaper The British Colonist (also called The Daily British Colonist, the Daily Colonist, and other variants) from its first issue in 1858 to June of 1910. A chronicle of Victoria and British Columbia.     For More Information...     Surrey Public Library’s Genealogy Webpage Vancouver Public Library’s Genealogy Page Ask a Librarian   WVML Privacy Policy