Manitoba Requests Out

A family friend has already done some looking into my husband's family, which is really cool. It's given me a lot to work with now that I'm starting to turn that way. (I'm not giving up my family, of course, just temporarily working with what's available online first while I finish reading the new book I purchased, Finding Your Mexican Ancestors.)

My mother-in-law's family originates in part from Manitoba, Canada. Their Vital Statistics Agency is wonderful. You can pay $25 (Canadian dollars) to send in a form and have them do the search for you, or you can search their database online and pay only $12 for records if you print out their order form from their database search. It's easy to do, super convenient, and half the price! What more could you ask for? Well, I suppose you could ask for it to be able to search the "mother's maiden name" field as well as the "surname" field in the same query. But other than that...

So yesterday, April 18th, I faxed in my order for 11 different documents, including birth, marriage, and death documents. There are actually a few more that I found in the database that I'd like to order, but that can wait until next month. I've used up my genealogy budget for this month.

Point is, if you have any births 100+ years ago, marriages 80+ years ago, or deaths 70+ years ago that took place in Manitoba, Canada, you should click here. If you want to search the database directly to save some money, click on "Search the database" on the left of that page, or click directly here.