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To: Chief Engineer

I did a quick search for genealogical birth records in Vancouver, no dice getting anything online. 120 year wait apparently. Someone in that area might be able to find something in a library.

http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/refguides/genealog.htm

All birth, death and marriage records for Vancouver are held by the
British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency,
818 Fort Street, Victoria, B.C. V8W 1H8, Canada. Tel: (250) 952-2681.
605 Robson Street, Room 250, Vancouver, B.C., V6B 5J3
Tel: (604) 660-2937

http://www.vs.gov.bc.ca/genealogy/electronic_index.html

What is available on the electronic index?

* Birth registrations are available from 1872 - 1887 or 120 years after the date of birth.

Bergs’ case(s) are probably useless unless he can actually pry some actual evidence out of Obama and company.

I’ll look around some more tomorrow.


1,368 posted on 01/05/2009 7:24:00 PM PST by nominal (Christus dominus. Christus veritas.)
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To: nominal

I already knew the time limit for births in B.C. records first become available to the public 75 years after birth unless you are family. It’s something that is being worked on at this time. The home for unwed mothers was the Salvation Army Booth Memorial home and it was torn down in 2002 or 2003. Births at that time took place at Vancouver General Hospital. Entry back into the United States would doubtfully have been recorded as I and other Freepers mentioned in earlier posts. Census records are also a dead end in that regard. I also doubt that births at a home for unwed mothers made it into either “The Vancouver Sun” or “The Vancouver Province”. There might be an adoption website with listings of children from that time looking for birth mothers or mothers looking for chidren. I must admit to having a “CRS” moment trying to remember if B.C. is one of the provinces which has opened birth records.


1,369 posted on 01/05/2009 7:32:54 PM PST by Chief Engineer
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