This is a list of free Alberta, Canada Online Genealogy Records at FamilySearch.

Included are Alberta cemetery records, census records, native races records and more. We’ll continue to add more Alberta collections available online at FamilySearch. If you’re looking for onsite collections, visit their website & catalog.

These collections are all free to search. Due to contractual obligations, you’ll need to be logged in with a free FamilySearch account to view some of these records.  If you follow the link and find the record is locked, login to FamilySearch on your computer and this may unlock the collection. If you’re logged in and still see a key icon, this collection may require you to view them online at a local library. Use this Locator tool to find a location near you. 

How to View the Collections

1. Some links take you straight to the collection.

2. Other links take you to a catalog description page where you will have to select the link.

   • Look for a camera icon and select that icon

   • or look for red print and select “here”

3. If there is a key icon above the camera, this collection may be digitized and online, but you will either have to be signed in to your account at FamilySearch or they may need to be viewed at your local family history center or affiliate library. Find the nearest viewing center near you.

4. In a few cases, the collection may be in queue to be digitized and you’ll need to check back at a later date.

Alberta Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Alberta Birth Indexes & Birth Records

• Canada – Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959, index

Alberta Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records

• Canada – Canada Marriages, 1661-1949, index

Alberta Death Indexes & Death Records

• Canada – Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955, index

Cemeteries

• Canada – Canadian Headstones, index
• Alberta – Key to source of the master data microfiche index
• Alberta, Acadia Valley – 16 cemeteries in the Oyen, Acadia Valley, Loverna (Sask.) area: index to grave markers and burial records
• Alberta, Acme – 28 cemeteries in the Elnora, Trochu, Carbon, Acme area: index to grave markers and burial records
• Alberta, Aden – 30 cemeteries in the Taber, Bow Island, Foremost area: index to grave markers and burial records
• Alberta, Aetna – Cardston & district cemeteries
• Alberta, Aetna – Death records of Aetna, Alberta, Canada
• Alberta, Agricola – St. Paul’s Church, Agricola Cemetery, SE4-54-22 W4

Alberta Residence Records

Census

• Canada – Canada Census, 1881, index & images
• Canada, Alberta – Census schedules, 1881
• Canada – Canada Census, 1891, index
• Canada, Alberta – Census schedules, 1891
• Canada – Canada Census, 1901, index & images
• Canada, Alberta – Census schedules, 1901
• Canada – Canada, Northwest Provinces Census, 1906, index
• Canada, Alberta – Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906
• Canada – Canada Census, 1911, index
• Canada, Alberta – Fifth census schedule of Canada, 1911: schedule 1, population
• Canada – Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1916, index & images
• Canada – Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926, index & images

Directories

• Alberta – Wrigley’s Alberta directory

Emigration/Immigration/Migration

• Canada – Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922, index & images
• Alberta – Papers, 1923-1932

Land & Property

• Alberta – Challenge north: conference report, Fort McMurray, October 2-4, 1985

Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers

• Alberta – LDS place names gazetteer

Alberta Daily Life Records

Alumni, Schools, & Yearbooks

• Alberta – Minute book, 1910-1921

Biography

• Alberta – Alberta, past and present: historical and biographical
• Alberta – Who’s who in the West: a biographical dictionary of noteworthy men and women of the Pacific coast and western states

Church

• Alberta – Das Klein-Geschichtsbuch der hutterischen Brüder
• Alberta – Presbyterian pioneer missionaries : in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia
• Alberta – Church records, 1871-1919
• Alberta, Aetna –
• Record of members, 1893-1948; annual genealogical record, Form E, 1907-1948

Description & Travel

• Alberta – Making a start in Canada : letters from two young emigrants

Employees, Officials, & Occupations

• Alberta – The riders of the plains : a record of the Royal North-West Mounted Police of Canada

Ethnic Records

Native American Records

• Alberta – The Assiniboine
• Alberta – Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfeet
• Alberta – Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfeet
• Alberta – Elbow drums, 1971-1973

Minorities

• Alberta – Minute book, 1910-1921
• Alberta – Zbitnoff collection
• Alberta – Bulletin d’information la Société historique héritage franco-albertain
• Alberta – Bulletin d’information la Société historique héritage franco-albertain

Folklore

• Alberta – The Assiniboine

Genealogy

• Alberta – Bulletin d’information la Société historique héritage franco-albertain
• Alberta – Acme memories

Government & Politics

• Alberta – Canada and her colonies : or, Home rule for Alberta

History

• Alberta – Alberta, past and present : historical and biographical
• Alberta – Canada and her colonies : or, Home rule for Alberta
• Alberta – History of the province of Alberta
• Alberta – Papers, 1923-1932
• Alberta – The range men : the stories of the ranchers and Indians of Alberta
• Alberta – Canada and her colonies : or, Home rule for Alberta
• Alberta, Acme – Acme memories