Digital Resources - Manitoba
- Ancestry Library Edition: An international Family History resource with the largest online Canadian family history collection, searchable by surname. Many digitized records are available for viewing, printing, and saving. Ancestry Library edition is available at all Surrey Libraries Branches. A list of resources within Ancestry, relevant to Alberta can be found by conducting a search by location:
- Click TWICE on the Search Tab
- Scroll down to “Explore by Location” and choose Manitoba.
- Family Search Affiliate Library Access: A large, free database available anywhere that is administered by the Church of Latter-Day Saints and has many digitized collections not found elsewhere. Surrey Libraries has Affiliate Library status with Family Search, allowing users at the Library to access many digital images of original documents that would otherwise be locked to home users. Available at all Surrey Libraries branches.
- FindMyPast: An international genealogy resource with a large collection of Canadian records, searchable by surname. Many digitized records are available for viewing, printing, and saving. Available only at our Cloverdale branch.
- The Genealogist: A key site for British research, this database contains over 800 million records and includes collections not found in other databases. Its international holdings include emigration and military records for Canada, Australia, South Africa, and India, and Scottish directories from the 15th to 19th Century. Most of its records are independently transcribed – useful for addressing indexing errors in other databases.
- Points to the Past: This is a gateway to a world-class collection of primary sources, made up of nearly 200 million pages of digitized historical content – maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, and much more. Includes a solid collection of UK historical newspapers from the 17th to 19th Centuries.