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FHSNL will be holding a Genealogy Conference at The Rooms in St. John’s, Newfoundland on July 25-27, 2025. Tickets can be purchased on the conference website, which will be updated as more details become available.

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Features on our Website

  • During July 2025 we are making some website updates. Access to resources that are normally freely available to non-members may be interrupted while this work is in progress.
  • The most recent issue of our quarterly journal “The Ancestor”. Moreover, a complete set of back issues has been digitised and put on our website for our members. For non-members we have made available a sample issue that can be freely downloaded.
  • A guide to the genealogical holdings at our research centre can be downloaded by clicking here.
  • Voters Lists from 1955
  • Miscellaneous Deeds and Wills (volumes 1 to 22)
  • Signal Hill Visitors Books for 1913-1929, 1929-1939 and 1939-1954
  • Newfoundland Passports
  • 1836 Census (including nominal info from Fogo)
  • A searchable Vital Stats Pre-1892 Births Database with over 79,000 entries in it as of January 2021.
  • A “beta test” version of a web-based tool to enable members to Search the FHSNL Headstone Database.
  • Slides and audio recordings from several of our past lectures.
  • Interactive forums where we invite both members and non-members to post genealogical queries, etc.
  • Journals from other societies

 

Donations

FHSNL is a Registered Charity. We welcome monetary donations and are able to provide income tax receipts for them. Please click here for more details on how to donate to us.

If you have materials such as family histories, family Bibles, books, or church records that you would like to donate us, then please contact us to make arrangements for delivery.

You can also donate Aeroplan points to FHSNL (although these do not qualify for tax receipts). Click on this logo for more details:

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Genealogical DNA Testing:

FHSNL has partnered with FamilyTreeDNA, which specialises in genealogical DNA testing. Family Tree DNA offers several types of DNA tests, including its autosomal “Family Finder” test that identifies relatives through a combination of maternal and paternal lines.

For direct paternal line testing (which involves testing a man’s DNA), you can also search for a corresponding surname-based DNA project among the many Projects at FamilyTreeDNA.

For direct maternal line testing, there is a Newfoundland and Labrador mtDNA Project that you can join if your direct maternal ancestral line involves Newfoundland and Labrador.
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