Ancestry’s just updated collection, Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1943
Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1943 to 10,746,358 records. The Archives of Ontario (AO) has a continuing agreement with Ancestry to make these records available online,
AO holds the original registration books of Ontario marriages until 1944. What about the 1944 records? It does take Ancestry a while to catch up.
If you search the Ancestry collection for 1944, it returns 10 entries, all of which transcriptions show a 1944 marriage. Examine the image, and you find discrepancies in the date. Most often, the year date of the Receiver General’s “Received” stamp predates the marriage. A Foster-Ridell marriage on 23 May 1944 is date-stamped 28 May 1942. Did the last digit of the year on the stamp slip? It could easily happen. Then the document gets filed in the Receiver General’s office according to the date stamp, but Ancestry reads the real marriage date.
In case you’re wondering, one 1945 marriage, on 28 June, is date-stamped 2 July 1940. For a couple of other marriages that were erroneously indexed, corrections have already been noted in the Ancestry results.
Finally, Ancestry has “A full list of sources” as follows, but none for a gap between 1928 and 1933, nor for post-1939.
Ontario, Canada. Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928. MS932, Reels 1-833, 850-880. Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
Ontario, Canada. Marriage License Books, 1907-1910. MS945, Reels 1-12. Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
Ontario, Canada. Delayed Registrations of Marriages, 1892-1919. MS948, Reels 1-5. Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
Ontario, Canada. County Marriage Registers, 1858-June 1869. FHL microfilm 1030055-1030068. Family History Library. Salt Lake City, Utah (Archives of Ontario, MS 248, reels 5-18).
Ontario, Canada. District Marriage Registers, 1801-1858. MS 248, Reels 1-4. Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
Ontario, Canada. Roman Catholic Marriage Registers, 1828-1870. MS 248, Reels 20-23. Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
Ontario, Canada. Ontario Marriages, 1933-1939. Textual Records. RG 80-05-0. Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
Interesting as always to analyze these collections – shows us how easily errors can slip in and proves how diligently we must research to find those records we need.