Tuesday, January 15, 2013

New search resource: Canadian Voter's Lists, 1935-1980

It's been a long time since my last post.  Suffice it to say for now that on the reunion front all is well, but quiet, and I've made more progress in figuring out just what it all means for me than in really getting to know all these new people.  But quiet isn't silent, thankfully. I plan to write more later.

My own search may be over, but searching still interests me.  So I thought those Ontario adoptees still engaged in search might be interested to learn of an important new resource.  Ancestry.com now has an indexed archive of Canadian Voter's lists from 1935-1980.  Typically these contain a list of voters sorted by address.  Voters are people of voting age, which was 21 before 1970 and 18 afterwards.  This is probably one of the best public resources for finding names, addresses, and family relationships for Canadians around 1-2 generations ago.  I wish it were around when I was searching.