Items that we have placed online for our members:

Headstone Inscriptions

During the 1980s and 1990s we gathered transcriptions from many cemeteries in the province. The books that contain these records are held at our resource centre and have been scanned and placed on this webpage. Several of the details from these records have also been entered into a searchable database.

Pre-1892 Vital Statistics Births Database

With the help of volunteers, we have been building a searchable database of pre-1892 birth records from the province's collection of Vital Statistics records.

Records from The Rooms

On this webpage we have made available many records from The Rooms (Provincial Archives). These records include voters lists, court records, deeds and wills, visitors books from Signal Hill, and various other items.

Records from the Provincial Resource Library

On this webpage we have made available records held by the Provincial Resource Library. These records include court records and the Bonavista Bay Plantation Book.

Voters Lists and Business Ledgers

At our resource centre we have voters lists from 1955 and 1962, several of which we have scanned and placed on this webpage along with some business ledgers that we have scanned.

Lectures

We began to record our monthly lectures in 2011. Recordings are available on this webpage.

Society Journals

All back issues of our quarterly journal "The Ancestor" are available on this webpage. As a partial index, we also have a page with the Tables of Contents.

For several years we have been exchanging journals electronically with other genealogical and family history societies. Several of their journals are available to our members on this webpage

 

Physical items at our resource centre:

Please refer to our Guide to Holdings to see the full list of items that we have at our resource centre in St. John's.

Among our collections is a large number of family and community histories, some examples of which can be found on this webpage.

Also available online is the Guide to the Gordon Myles Fonds, although the fonds themselves have not been digitised.

We are always striving to expand our research resources, and welcome contributions to our collections. Whether you have completed a community history or family tree, or simply come across a few documents that you think may be of interest to the Society, please get in touch with us. Material donations can be sent via post or dropped off in person at our office.

Our centre is open to the public, but please check our hours before coming.

Our contact details and opening times can be found on this webpage.

We offer limited research services for people who cannot visit in person.