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

Included are Manitoba birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, land records, pension records, military records and more. We’ll continue to add more Manitoba collections available online at FamilySearch. If you’re looking for onsite collections, visit their website & catalog.

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Manitoba Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Manitoba Birth Indexes & Birth Records

• Canada – Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959, index
• Manitoba – Manitoba Church Records, 1800-1959, index & images

Manitoba Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records

• Canada – Canada Marriages, 1661-1949, index
• Manitoba – Manitoba Church Records, 1800-1959, index & images

Manitoba Death Indexes & Death Records

• Canada – Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955, index
• Manitoba – Manitoba Church Records, 1800-1959, index & images

Cemeteries

• Canada – Canadian Headstones, index
• Manitoba – Miscellaneous Cemetery and Church Records copied by Brother T and Sister Waywell: And Members of the Different Branches of the Canadian Mission

Wills & Probate

• Manitoba – Manitoba Probate Records, 1871-1930, index & images
• Manitoba – Application books, 1884-1930
• Manitoba – Estate files, 1871-1930; index ca. 1884-1930
• Manitoba – Estate files, 1884-1930, index, 1884-1937
• Manitoba – Estate files, 1884-1930, index, 1884-1970
• Manitoba – Estate files, 1902-1930, index, 1902-1948
• Manitoba – Estate files, 1908-1930; index, 1908-1962
• Manitoba – Estate files, 1909-1930
• Manitoba – Estate files, 1917-1930, index, 1917-1950

Manitoba Residence Records

Census

• 1831-1870 – Manitoba Census Indexes, 1831-1870, index & images
• 1831-1870 – Manitoba census records, 1831-1870
• 1832-1870 – Red River Settlement and province of Manitoba typed card index to the nominal census returns, 1832-1870
• 1851 – Canada – Canada Census, 1851, index
• 1871 – Canada – Canada Census Mortality Schedules, 1871, index
• 1871 – Canada – Canada Census, 1871, index
• 1881 – Canada – Canada Census, 1881, index & images
• 1881 – Census schedules, 1881
• 1891 – Canada – Canada Census, 1891, index
• 1891 – Census schedules, 1891
• 1901 – Canada – Canada Census, 1901, index & images
• 1901 – Census schedules, 1901
• 1906 – Canada – Canada, Northwest Provinces Census, 1906, index
• 1906 – Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906: schedule 1, population and livestock
• 1911 – Canada – Canada Census, 1911, index
• 1911 – Fifth census schedule of Canada, 1911: schedule 1, population
• 1916 – Canada – Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1916, index & images
• 1926 – Canada – Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926, index & images
• 1926 – Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926

Colonization

• Manitoba – Red River Settlement: papers in the Canadian Archives relating to the pioneers

Emigration/Immigration/Migration

• Canada – Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922, index & images
• Manitoba – United States, border crossings from Canada to United States, records and certificates of aliens pre-examined at Winnipeg, Manitoba prior to admission at the U.S.-Canada border, 1917-1954
• Manitoba – Ursachen und Geschichte der Auswanderung der Mennoniten aus Rußland nach Amerika

Land & Property

• Manitoba – The Hudson’s Bay company’s land tenures : and the occupation of Assiniboia by Lord Selkirk’s settlers with a list of grantees under the Earl and the Company

Manitoba Daily Life Records

Biography

• Manitoba – Manitoba: pictorial and biographical deluxe supplement

Church

• Manitoba – Lutheran Church records of Icelandic people in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Pembina County, North Dakota
• Manitoba – Manitoba, church records, 1800-1959
• Manitoba – Miscellaneous Cemetery and Church Records copied by Brother T and Sister Waywell : And Members of the Different Branches of the Canadian Mission
• Manitoba – Registres paroissiaux, 1846-1915
• Manitoba – Kipling Collection (MG 25, G 62) : Kipling index 1
• Manitoba – The great Canadian Mission : a jubilee history
• Manitoba – Das Klein-Geschichtsbuch der hutterischen Brüder
• Manitoba – Log, stone and brick : a pen and ink pictorial history of Anglican churches in the Diocese of Keewatin
• Manitoba – The Mennonites in Manitoba, 1875-1900 : a review of their coming, their progress, and their present prosperity
• Manitoba – Presbyterian pioneer missionaries : in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia

Description & Travel

• Manitoba – English lands and English homes in the Far West: being the story of a holiday tour in Canada
• Manitoba – The International Peace Garden

Ethnic Records

Native Races Records

• Manitoba – Thunderbird quill newsletter, June 1969-1972

Minorities

• Manitoba – The Mennonites in Manitoba, 1875-1900 : a review of their coming, their progress, and their present prosperity
• Manitoba – Narrative of the Fenian invasion of Canada : with a map of the field of combat at Limestone Ridge

History

• Manitoba – First furrows : a history of the early settlement of the Red River country, including that of Portage la Prairie
• Manitoba – Glimpses of the past in the Red River Settlement : from letters of Mr. John Pritchard, 1805-1836
• Manitoba – The Red River Colony : a chronicle of the beginnings of Manitoba
• Manitoba – The romantic settlement of Lord Selkirk’s colonists : the pioneers of Manitoba
• Manitoba – Red River Settlement : papers in the Canadian Archives relating to the pioneers

Magazines & Periodicals

• Manitoba – Thunderbird quill newsletter, June 1969-1972

Newspapers

• Brandon, Manitoba – Newspapers – Digital Archives of Western Manitoba Regional Library, at AA

• The Brandon Daily Sun
  (1917-1959)   117,575 Pages
• Brandon Sun
  (2009-2020)   77,082 Pages
• The Brandon Sun
  (2019-2022)   10,880 Pages
• The Brandon Weekly Sun
  (1919-1919)   26 Pages
• Brandon Daily Sun
  (1918-1918)   4 Pages

Manitoba Military Records

• Manitoba – Narrative of the Fenian invasion of Canada: with a map of the field of combat at Limestone Ridge