Vital Records
Births
FamilySearch
- Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l'état civil, catholique
- New Brunswick county registers of births : 1888 series; pre-1920 county book series; and index, 1801-1899
- Canada, New Brunswick, County Register of Births, 1801-1920 at FamilySearch — index and images
- New Brunswick Late Registration of Births, 1810-1899 at FamilySearch — index and images
- New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Births and Late Registrations, 1810-1906 Index and images.
- New Brunswick County Registers of Births Index, ca. 1812-1919, index
- New Brunswick, County Registers of Births, ca. 1812-1919, images only
- New Brunswick, Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899 Index only.
- New Brunswick provincial returns of births, 1869-1905, 1906 (A-Be); late registrations, 1810-1905; indexes to late registrations, 1900-1904
New Brunswick Archives
Subscription Website Databases
- Roman Catholic baptismal records in the Acadia, Drouin Collection (1670-1946) on Ancestry ($), index and images. Available records vary by area.
- New Brunswick, Canada, Births and Late Registrations, 1810-1906, index and images, ($).
- New Brunswick, Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899, ($), index.
- New Brunswick Birth and Baptism Index 1769-1899, ($)
- New Brunswick, Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899, ($), index
Marriages
FamilySearch
- Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l'état civil, catholique
- Nova Scotia Vital Records, 1763-1957, index. Includes marriage bonds 1763, 1765, 1770-1780, 1782, when New Brunswick was still part of Nova Scotia.
- New Brunswick, Canada, Marriages, 1789-1950, index and images, ($).
- New Brunswick, Marriage Registers, 1789-1889 Images only.
- New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950, index
- New Brunswick marriage registers, 1792-1889
- Marriage bonds, 1810-1932; index, 1810-1932
- New Brunswick Provincial Returns of Marriages, 1887-1919 Images only.
- Cumulative index marriages : extracted from RS141--Vital Statistics Branch records
- New Brunswick provincial registers of marriages, 1888-1895; county registers of marriages, 1888-1921; marriages returns, 1888, organized by county; and indexes, 1888-1895
- Cumulative index III, marriages 1911-1919 : extracted from RS141 New Brunswick vital statistics
- New Brunswick Provincial Returns of Marriages and Late Registrations, 1920-1950 Images only.
New Brunswick Archives
Subscription Website Databases
- Roman Catholic marriage records in the Acadia, Drouin Collection (1670-1946) on Ancestry ($), index and images. Available records vary by area.
- New Brunswick, Canada, Marriages, 1789-1950, index and images ($)
- New Brunswick, Canada, Marriage Bonds Index, 1810–1932, index ($)
Deaths
FamilySearch
- Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l'état civil, catholique
- New Brunswick Provincial Deaths, 1815-1938 Index and images.
- New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Deaths, 1815-1919 Images only.
- New Brunswick provincial registers of deaths, 1888-1895; indexes, 1888-1895; county registers of deaths, 1888-1919 (1921 for Kent Co.); and returns of deaths, 1888, organized by county
- New Brunswick, Death Certificates, 1920-1934 Images.
- New Brunswick certificates of registration of deaths, 1920-1938
- New Brunswick, Death Certificates, 1935-1938 Images.
New Brunswick Archives
Subscription Website Databases
Divorces
Acadians
Archives
Biographies
Black Canadians
Business and Commerce
Cemeteries
Census
- See Canada Online Genealogy Records
- New Brunswick Census, 1861 Index.
- New Brunswick, Canada, Irish Immigrants In The New Brunswick Census Of 1851 and 1861 Index, 1851, 1861, index, ($)
- Acadian census and church records
- Acadian Censuses at WikiTree 1671-1809
- Acadian Censuses at Acadian-Cajun Genealogy and History, 1671-1752
- Head of Family Returns and Nominal Census, 1604-1921 at NB GenLinks
- 1770 census Nova Scotia (includes New Brunswick), incomplete.
- 1783 Studholm Report Incomplete
- 1833 New Brunswick Special Census of the Madawaska Settlement, Carleton County, New Brunswick and Penobscot County, Maine Name Index
Church Records
- New Brunswick Genealogy Records Online Scroll down to county lists.
- Acadian census and church records
- New Brunswick, births and baptisms, 1819-1899, index and image.
- Marriages of New Brunswick from newspapers and church records
- Deaths of New Brunswick from newspapers and church records
- Cemetery, church and miscellaneous records for New Brunswick
- Early U.S. French Catholic Church Records, 1695-1954 ($) (Ancestry).
- Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946], index and images, ($)
- New Brunswick, Select Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899, index
Directories
Court Records
First Nations
Histories
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Genealogies
Immigration Records
- See Canada Online Genealogy Records
- Online Listing of 1500 of the first families to arrive in New Brunswick.
- Passenger Lists, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
- The Old United Empire Loyalists List, index
- A List of passengers landing in ships in the Maritime provinces
- Ships Lists & Voyages ~ pre1830, New Brunswick GenLinks
- Yorkshire Immigrants to New Brunswick, 1772-1775, index
- Return of Loyalists settled in various parts of New Brunswick in the year 1785 : apparently compiled in connection with an investigation into the accounts paid out by the government in behalf of the Loyalists index.
- Saint John, N.B. Customs House Passenger Lists 1815, 1832, 1833-1834 & 1837-1838
- Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Port Returns - Including Passenger Lists, 1816-1838
- Teacher Petitions Index, index and images
- New Brunswick, Canada, Passenger Lists: 1834 ($)
- Irish Emigration to New England through the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841 to 1849 ($)
- Fitzwilliam Estate Emigration Books, 1847-1856 Database
- New Brunswick, Canada, Irish Immigrants In The New Brunswick Census Of 1851 and 1861 Index, 1851, 1861, index, ($)
- Passenger Lists, 1865-1922 Index and images. Library and Archives Canada
- Passenger Lists for the Port of Quebec City and Other Ports, 1865-1922, index and images. Library and Archives Canada
- Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922, index and images.
- United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index.
- Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954, index and images.
- Vermont, Passenger Lists, 1895-1924
- Ships' passenger lists for Canada, 1900-1922, 1925-1935
- Border Entry, 1908-1918, images.
- Report of Admissions at the Port of Grand Falls, New Brunswick 1913 - 1918
- United States, border crossing from Canada to United States, New Brunswick, Records of Aliens Pre-Examined at Saint John, New Brunswick, Prior to Admission at the U.S.-Canada Border, 1917-1942, index and images.
- Border Entry, Form 30, 1919-1924, images
- Immigration Form 30A, ocean arrivals, 1919-1924, index and images.
- Passenger Lists and Border Entries, 1925-1935 - Nominal Indexes, Library and Archives Canada
Provincial Secretary Administration Records
- Report on Nicholson, Breen, Collins, Macan, and McGuire Families, Irish Immigrants in York and Carleton Counties, c. 1847, images
- Report on Immigration Settlements in New Brunswick; 1863 (provides name, county of settlement, the number of acres, the year of survey, rough estimate of number of settlers as of 1863), images.
- List of Patients at Emigrants Hospital in Saint John; 1847-1849 (includes name of patient, age, county of birth, date of death or discharge, name of ship, point of sailing, when arrived), images.
- Catalogues of Immigrants Relieved on Poor and Immigrant Accounts; 1842 (includes name, age, county of birth, number in family, to what place removed from Saint John, names of deceased indigent immigrants, and place of internment), images.
- General Accounts for Support of Distressed Immigrants, Parish of Saint John, 1829-1830, 1835, 1855 (not as detailed as the catalogues above but do contain some names), images.
- Accounts for Support of Black Refugees, Parish of Portland, 1827-1829, 1831, 1835 (contain names), images.
- Accounts For Support of Distressed Immigrants, Parish of Portland; 1827-1829, 1831, 1835, 1841 (contains names), images.
- Accounts for Support of Distressed Immigrants; 1828-1829, 1845-1853 (contain some names), York County, images.
- Petition of James Taylor of Fredericton Relating to Scottish Settlers Arrived on the "Favorite", c.1817., images.
- Passenger List for the "Thetis"; 1837, images.
- Correspondence Relating to Diseased Passengers on the "Eliza Liddel"; 1847-1848 (includes passenger list), images.
- List of Patients in Immigrants Hospital at Shippegan, 1847, images.
Jewish Records
Land Records
- Indian land records
- Nova Scotia, Canada, Land Petitions, 1765-1800, index
- New Brunswick, Canada, County Deed Registry Books, 1780-1993, ($), images
- New Brunswick, County Deed Registry Books Image Browse ($)
- New Brunswick, Canada, Land Petitions Index, 1783-1918
- Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 (RS108)
- Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997 (RS686)
- New Brunswick Bonds for Mid-1800s, index
- Place Names of New Brunswick: Where is Home? New Brunswick Communities Past and Present Cadastral Maps: Enter a town name to bring up a variety of maps, including cadastral maps which label lots with owners' names.
FamilySearch
Restricted records can be studied at any Family History Center near you.
- Description of land grants, v. 1 - 50, 1763-1868
- Index to land grants, 1765-1900, New Brunswick
- New Brunswick, County Deed Registry Books, 1780-1930, images.
- Land petitions, 1763-1860 Crown Land Office
- Land petitions, 1783-1857 Crown Land Office
- Land petitions, 1784-1845 Crown Land Office
- Land petitions, 1858-1918 Crown Land Office
- Land petitions, bound series III, 1827-1846 Crown Land Office
- Land records, 1763-1914; index, 1784-1877 Department of Crown Lands
- Nova Scotia Crown land grant registers, 1732-1901; indexes, 1707-1999
Loyalists
- Loyalists in the Maritimes — Ward Chipman Muster Master's Office, 1777–1785
- New Brunswick Loyalist Pensions
- Carleton Papers – Loyalists and British Soldiers, 1772-1784, index.
- UK, American Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835, index
- Carleton Papers – Book of Negroes, 1783, index.
- UELAC Loyalist Directory
- The Old United Empire Loyalists List, index
- Family histories and pedigrees from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
- Biographical data relating to New Brunswick families, especially of Loyalist descent
- List of Loyalist records for individuals, found in the FamilySearch online collection
Military Records
- See Canada Online Genealogy Records
- Military records of New Brunswick
- Lists of officers and militia men in several regiments, with biographical sketches and pedigrees, index and images
- Loyalists in the Maritimes — Ward Chipman Muster Master's Office, 1777–1785
- New Brunswick Loyalist Pensions
- Carleton Papers – Loyalists and British Soldiers, 1772-1784, index.
- UELAC Loyalist Directory
- Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Records of Old Revolutionary Soldiers and Their Widows Index and images.
- Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 (RS108), Military Units Index A list of the 107 Military Units (sorted in alphabetical order) that were related to one or more petitions.
- Black Watch (42nd Regiment) Veterans to New Brunswick in 1783
- The King's New Brunswick Regiment 1793-1802, e-book.
- Index of military commissions (New Brunswick) 1812-1860, index.
- Military Medals, Honours and Awards, 1812-1969
- Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Canadian Forces Base Gagetown Cemeteries
- Personnel Records of the First World War, index and images.
- Canada, WWI CEF Personnel Files, 1914-1918 at Ancestry.com ($) - index and images
- New Brunswick Great War Project
- Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Index to death registration of soldiers, 1941-1947
- New Brunswick Genealogy Records Online Scroll down to county lists.
Naturalization and Citizenship
Newspapers
- Historical Canadian Newspapers Online: New Brunswick, BGSU
- Newspaper clippings; births, marriages, deaths, history (for New Brunswick), taxpayers of St. John
- Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics (1784-1896), index and images. New Brunswick Provincial Archives. Also at FamilySearch, images only.
- Vital Statistics From New Brunswick Newspapers
- Kings County Record Newspaper : Death Index, 1897-1936 (MC3952 : John Fynn Collection)
- Marriages of New Brunswick from newspapers and church records
- Newspapers, PANB Use full-text search to find names of people mentioned in articles.
- Canadian Deaths 1878-1886 Abstracted from The Dominion Annual Register and Review
- Pre-loyalist biography
- Mgr Donat Robichaud Genealogical and Historical Research Collection L'Évangeline Newspaper Database
- Biographical data, 1904-1919 newspaper clippings of obituaries, marriages, and births for New Brunswick, particularly from Saint John newspapers.
- New Brunswick Genealogy Records Online Scroll down to county lists.
Obituaries
- Canada Obituary Collection for New Brunswick ($)
- Canadian Obituaries Forum - NEW BRUNSWICK
- Canadian Obits - New Brunswick
- Canada, Obituary Collection ($), index
- Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics
- Restigouche County Obituaries
- New Brunswick Online Historical Newspapers Summary
- Acadian and Maritime obituaries
- Obituaries (CanadaEast) Online search engine for New Brunswick obituaries from newspapers throughout the province.
- New Brunswick, Canada Obituaries and Death Notices Collection
- Misc. New Brunswick Obits 1878-1886
- Index To Death Roll of the St. John Globe Newspaper 1897 - 1926
- Kings County Record Newspaper: Death Index, 1897-1936
- Fredericton Daily Gleaner - Burial Permit Listing 1902-1903; 1908-1911; 1915-1919
- Biographical data, 1904-1919 newspaper clippings of obituaries, marriages, and births for New Brunswick, particularly from Saint John newspapers.
- Newspaper obituaries, 1937-1948, Times Globe (St. John, New Brunswick)
- New Brunswick Genealogical Society Obituaries Project
Periodicals
Poorhouse Records
Wills and Probate Records
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