Saskatchewan
Genealogical Indexes Released on Ancestry.ca
The indexes of SGS’s major databases have been
included on Ancestry.ca as of August 5, 2013.
The Saskatchewan Residents Index and the Burial Index are represented by
entries that include the name, date and location of an individual. A link for these two databases will bring the
researcher to the database page at www.saskgenealogy.com/Databases/common/.
The RCMP Obituaries and Change of Name indexes are
included in full.
Saskatchewan
Residents Index (SRI)
SRI is an ongoing program to index the names found
in the local history books, Cummins Maps, Voters’ Lists and other resources
that list Saskatchewan residents.
Currently there are over 3 million names and related data in the
databases.
Burial
Index (BI)
The BI contains the names of all names transcribed
from Saskatchewan cemeteries that have been located by SGS volunteers. There are presently 270,000 names on the
Ancestry.ca index.
Royal
Canadian Mounted Police Obituary Index
The RCMP Obituaries are from the Quarterly, a
publication of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The index provides
name, regimental number, and rank and indicates the volume and issue number of
the Quarterly where you can find the obituary. The Saskatchewan Genealogical Society Library
has copies of the obituaries on file, which can be requested from the society
for a small fee.
Change
of Names
Anyone
twenty-one years of age could now apply to the Provincial Secretary for a
change of name. Under the act no married
man could apply to change his surname or the given names of his wife or their
unmarried children under the age of twenty-one without the wife’s consent. Also, no married woman could change her
married name as long as her husband was living.
The application for the change of name stated the
full name of the applicant, the place of residence and if applicable, the full
name of the wife and full names and ages of any minor children along with
the proposed change of name(s). A notice
of this application was then published in The
Saskatchewan Gazette and the
local newspaper circulating in the district the applicant resided. Once these requirements were met the
Certificate of Change of Name was published in The
Saskatchewan Gazette, but without the ages of minor children.
Beginning in 1940 those who changed their name
outside Saskatchewan could register the name change in Saskatchewan. The change would then be published in The Saskatchewan Gazette. In 1947
the Act was changed so the applications were to be made to the Director of
Vital Statistics. At that time an
amendment stipulated that anyone over the age of eighteen who was married or
widowed could change their name. Written
consent was now required for those children fourteen years or older before
their name could be changed. Beginning in June of 1947 the Certificate of
Change of Name was no longer published in The
Saskatchewan Gazette which
means we no longer know from the publication of the notice whether the change
was actually approved or took place.
It should be noted that notices of change of names
have been published in The Saskatchewan Gazette since 1917 but these cannot be
used as a formal indication that the change took place. Notices continue to be
published in The Saskatchewan Gazette to the present time. An index to
the changes of names has been created - Changes
of Name: The Saskatchewan Gazette 1917 - 1950. The names are indexed by the original name and
the new name and provide the notice date and the certificate number. Contact Vital Statistics for Change of Name
information.
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