Delayed Registrations of Births and Stillbirths, "90" Series - 1846-1917

RG 80-3-2, Appendix A15

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If the Registration Number listed in the Indexes to Births and Stillbirths (RG 80-4) is above 900,000, the birth was not registered for several decades.

Use the table below to find:

• First, the year of the birth (not the year of the registration), and

• Second, the volume within that year which contains the registration number

The "Archives of Ontario Microfilm Reference" column in the table will list the reel of MS 933 microfilm that you should borrow or purchase. When you receive the reel, find the correct year on the microfilm and look up the registration number within it. In order to view this reel you may:

• Consult the appropriate reel at our reading room on the ground floor, 134 Ian Macdonald Blvd., Toronto.

• Borrow the reel through the Interlibrary Loan Department of your public library. Quote MS 933 and the appropriate reel #. These reels cannot leave the borrowing library, so make sure to request them from a library that has a microfilm reader.

  
  

Remember:

• You will be looking at birth registrations rather than certificates. Birth registrations are the raw data from which certificates would have been produced. If you have never seen a registration before, you may wish to view Examples of Birth Registrations.

• Not every registration is listed in numerical sequence. Year-end registrations that were late in arriving to the Registrar General's Office were sometimes copied onto blank pages in the newly bound volumes for that year. Non-sequential registrations are listed in the table below.

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