Digital Resources - Indigenous & Métis

All digital resources listed below are FREE to use in our Family History Department.

• 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
• 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 in the Cloverdale Branch Family History Department.
• 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. The majority 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 This is a gateway to a world-class collection of primary sources, made up of nearly 200 million pages of digitized historical content – maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, and much more. Large Canadian content. Includes a solid collection of UK historical newspapers from the 17th to 19th Centuries.
• American Ancestors. This database provides access to more than 1.4 billion records covering the United States, eastern Canada, the British Isles, continental Europe, and beyond. Many Canadian ancestors either emigrated from the US, or through the US from Europe, and had family on both sides of the border. This database includes one of the most extensive online collections of early American genealogical records, and the largest collection of US Catholic records online. Available at Cloverdale branch only.
• PRDH and BMS2000. These are specific to Quebec research and contain birth, marriage and death records, as well as some census and other records dating from the 16th to the 20th Centuries. Available only in our the Cloverdale Branch Family History Department.