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inGeneas Database
contains Canadian passenger, Canadian immigration, Canadian census, Canadian vital statistic
(birth, marriage and death), Canadian land, Canadian military and
miscellaneous records from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
For more complete descriptions of the kinds of Canadian genealogy
records within our database, please refer to the About
the inGeneas Database section which
appears near screen bottom.
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How to use the inGeneas Search Engine
To peruse the inGeneas Database, simply use the search form above. If you have any trouble, refer to How to use the inGeneas Search Engine.
Your search will generate a list of records matching the surname/given name you input. When you click on a record number, the information that follows will display.
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the age of the individual (if available) |
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the year of the record |
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a description of the type of document from which the record was transcribed and what additional information typical records in that document contain. |
We believe this should give you enough information to know if a record might be of interest to you.
If you discover a record for which you wish to order a transcription,press the Add This Item to Shopping Cart button. The selected record number will be added to your shopping cart.
The inGeneas Database contains both passenger list and other immigration records as described in the sections below.
The inGeneas Database contains passenger list records for immigrants arriving at Canadian ports between 1748 and 1873. For the most part, these records have been extracted from microfilm of the original manifests held at several archives and libraries.
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For each
record produced by the search above, there is a
description indicating the port/country of
embarkation and disembarkation (whenever
available) and what information the document in
which the record appears typically contains. |
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general, all passenger records in this database
contain place of embarkation and disembarkation,
the name of the vessel and at least an
approximate date. |
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The
specific information contained on passenger
manifests varies widely. In some cases, the
ship's purser efficiently recorded the name, age, occupation, former place of residence, religion
and ethnic origin of each passenger. In other
cases, only the basic information about the head
of the family was recorded with the remaining
family members recorded only by tally (as in 2
women, 4 children). In any case, the record
description will tell you what kind of additional
information you can expect for a given record.
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The inGeneas Database contains records from a variety of immigration records (other than passenger lists) for the time period of 1748 to 1906. For the most part, these records have been extracted from microfilm of the original records held at several archives and libraries. Immigration records such as those listed below are included in our database.
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selected records from the 1901 census of Canada (those which give a year of immigration). |
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selected records from various historic atlases (records relating only to those born outside of Canada) |
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various government, estate, immigrant agent and other emigration/immigration records |
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members of immigration societies |
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persons desiring to emigrate to the colonies and requesting government assistance and/or a grant of land |
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settlers names including the location of the land they were granted |
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soldiers who had served Britain in British North America and who wished to settle there |
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Loyalists coming to Ontario and Quebec from the United States |
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names of sick and dying emigrants admitted to Grosse Isle hospital |
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names of settlers who swore oaths to the King |
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immigrants who received aid from immigrant societies to proceed inland from Quebec |
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immigrants for whom employment was arranged by the government |
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muster rolls of new settlements |
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census and victualling records for new settlements |
Please note that there are quite literally millions of Canadian passenger and immigration records. Although inGeneas is working hard to get as many records as possible online as quickly as possible, it is a long-term project. If you can't find your descendant online today, check back frequently as our database grows.
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