This is a list of free Newfoundland and Labrador Online Genealogy Records at FamilySearch.
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Birth, Marriage, & Death Records
Birth Records
- Canada – Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959, index
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Church Records, 1793-1945, index & images
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Vital Records, 1840-1949, index & images
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893, index & images
- Newfoundland – Miscellaneous delayed birth registrations for Newfoundland, 1840-1915 (boxes 1-34)
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland birth records, 1891-1897 (a few to 1898), and delayed registration births, 1891-1900
- Newfoundland – Registers of Vital Statistics collection, 1753-1893, Newfoundland
- Newfoundland – Surrogate Court records for Trinity District, Newfoundland, 1815-1825
Marriage Records
- Canada – Canada Marriages, 1661-1949, index
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland marriage records, 1891-1922
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Church Records, 1793-1945, index & images
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Vital Records, 1840-1949, index & images
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893, index & images
- Newfoundland – Registers of Vital Statistics collection, 1753-1893, Newfoundland
- Newfoundland – Surrogate Court records for Trinity District, Newfoundland, 1815-1825
Death Records
- Canada – Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955, index
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland death records, 1891-1949
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Church Records, 1793-1945, index & images
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Vital Records, 1840-1949, index & images
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893, index & images
- Newfoundland – Registers of Vital Statistics collection, 1753-1893, Newfoundland
- Newfoundland – Surrogate Court records for Trinity District, Newfoundland, 1815-1825
Cemeteries
- Canada – Canadian Headstones, index
- Canada – BillionGraves Index, index links to images
- Canada – Find A Grave Index, index links to images
Obituaries
Wills & Probate
- Newfoundland – Administration books and miscellaneous probate records for the Central District, 1798-1937
- Newfoundland – Estate files, 1824-1930; index to estate files, 1830-1996
- Newfoundland – Probate records and various court documents, 1819-1899
- Newfoundland – Probate records for the Northern District, Newfoundland, 1805-1825
- Newfoundland – Surrogate Court and misc. court records for Bonavista District, Newfoundland, 1810-1825
- Newfoundland – Surrogate Court records for Trinity District, Newfoundland, 1815-1825
- Newfoundland – Will books, ca. 1830-1932 and indexes, ca. 1830-1962; and acts books, 1847-1939 and indexes, 1830-1975
Residence Records
Census
- 1675-1891, 1921 – Miscellaneous portions of census records for Newfoundland, 1675-1891, 1921
- 1911 – Newfoundland 1945 census, vols. 1-44, and miscellaneous portions of censuses, 1911-1945
- 1911 – Portions of the 1911 census of Newfoundland
- 1921 – Newfoundland Census, 1921, index & images
- 1921 – Newfoundland 1921 census
- 1921 – Newfoundland 1945 census, vols. 1-44, and miscellaneous portions of censuses, 1911-1945
- 1935 – Newfoundland Census, 1935, index & images
- 1935 – Newfoundland 1935 census
- 1935 – Newfoundland 1945 census, vols. 1-44, and miscellaneous portions of censuses, 1911-1945
- 1945 – Newfoundland Census, 1945, index & images
- 1945 – Newfoundland 1945 census, vols. 1-44, and miscellaneous portions of censuses, 1911-1945
- Newfoundland census locality finding aid of the Provincial Archives
Directories
Emigration/Immigration/Migration
- Canada – Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922, index & images
- Newfoundland – Miscellaneous records on emigration from England and Scotland to Canada located in the Public Archives of Canada
Land & Property
- Newfoundland – Administration books and miscellaneous probate records for the Central District, 1798-1937
- Newfoundland – Land records, 1825-Feb. 1931; indexes, 1825-1938
Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers
- Newfoundland – Atlas of the maritime provinces of the dominion of Canada : with historical and geological descriptions
- Newfoundland – Atlas of the United States of North America, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and Jamaica : on a uniform scale with a map showing the free and slave-holding states of America, distinguishing by colour the importing and exporting slave states, from the most recent state documents, marine surveys, and unpublished materials, with plans of the principal cities and sea-ports
- Newfoundland – Lovell’s gazetteer of the dominion of Canada with Newfoundland
- Newfoundland – McAlpine’s gazetteer of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland : a geographical and historical data of provinces and cities–location of towns, villages and hamlets–barristers, hotels, express offices and banks
- Newfoundland – Historical geography of the British Colonies: Newfoundland
Merchant Marine
- Newfoundland – Agreements and accounts of crews, 1890-1920
- Newfoundland – Canada, Merchant Marine agreements and accounts of crews, 1890-1920
Naturalization and Citizenship
- Newfoundland – Registers of aliens, 1939-1941, Newfoundland
Daily Life Records
Church
- Newfoundland – Catholic parish registers of the Fortune Bay District, Newfoundland, 1860-1883
- Newfoundland – Extracts of baptisms pertaining to Newfoundland from St. Patrick’s Church registers, 1756-1770, Church of Ireland, Waterford
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland, church records, 1793-1945
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland, vital statistics, 1753-1893
- Newfoundland – Registers of Vital Statistics collection, 1753-1893, Newfoundland
- Newfoundland – Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
- Newfoundland – Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
- Newfoundland – Ecclesiastical history of Newfoundland
- Newfoundland – A history of the churches in Newfoundland : a supplement to A history of Newfoundland from the English, colonial, and foreign records …
- Newfoundland – History of the Methodist Church within the territories embraced in the late Conference of Eastern British America : including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Bermuda
- Newfoundland – L’établissement de Récollets de la province de Saint-Denis à Plaisance en l’Ile de Terre-Neuve 1689
- Labrador – Newfoundland, Labrador, church records, 1840-1876
Court Records
- Newfoundland – Surrogate Court records for Trinity District, Newfoundland, 1815-1825
- Newfoundland – Probate records and various court documents, 1819-1899
- Newfoundland – Surrogate Court and misc. court records for Bonavista District, Newfoundland, 1810-1825
Description and Travel
- Newfoundland – Among the Eskimos of Labrador : a record of five years’ close intercourse with the Eskimo tribes of Labrador
- Newfoundland – Scraps from Canada to old country friends
- Labrador – Among the Eskimos of Labrador: a record of five years’ close intercourse with the Eskimo tribes of Labrador
Ethnic Records
Native Races
- Newfoundland – The Beothucks, or Red Indians, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland
- Newfoundland – The Beothucks, or Red Indians, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland
History
- Newfoundland – Ecclesiastical history of Newfoundland
- Newfoundland – The first English conquest of Canada: with some account of the earliest settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
- Newfoundland – Historical geography of the British Colonies : Newfoundland
- Newfoundland – A history of Newfoundland from the English, colonial, and foreign records
- Newfoundland – History of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, the Sable Islands, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, Newfoundland. etc., etc.
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland: an introdution to Canada’s new province
- Newfoundland – The Scot in New England : part VI the Kirks and Newfoundland [1628-1656]
- Labrador – Forty years for Labrador
Military Records
- Newfoundland – Muniments, 1719-1825
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Royal Naval reserve records, 1900-1918
World War I
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Royal Naval reserve records, 1900-1918
- Newfoundland – Captain C. Sydney Frost collection (MG 9) military extracts : nominal rolls and regimental records of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, Department of Militia, World War I
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland Forestry Companies, Department of Militia, World War I regimental records
- Newfoundland – Newfoundland military service records for the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and the Newfoundland Forestry Corps, 1913-1918
World War II
- Newfoundland – Nominal roll cards, World War II, Newfoundland
- Newfoundland – Registers of aliens, 1939-1941, Newfoundland
Modern Helps
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