Although these two sites have been on the Internet since 1998, were last updated in 2000, and have been surpassed by Find-A-Grave and other cemetery sites, they still hold information that these other sites may not have.
The reason why I go back to them is because Ron Demaray—who was the webmaster for these two sites—and his many volunteers went through the cemetery transcriptions that the genealogical societies had, and put the name of the deceased on the internet, plus the name of the cemetery, where it is located, and a reference number of the genealogy society.
For example, the British Columbia Cemetery Aid can tell me that there is an Agnes Barclay buried in the Royal Oak Burial Park (Section J) on Falaise Drive, in Victoria, on Vancouver Island, and the reference is VCS-ROBP-MRK, which is the Victoria Genealogical Society. Unfortunately, it does not tell me the dates of the burial, but it does give me the reference where it can be looked up.
| The British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid is found at http://bccfa.islandnet.com//homepage.html |
And for the Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, it is found at http://ocfa.islandnet.com
From this information, you can then see exactly what’s available to you in their resources.
So the two sites can give you a clue to search further … and that is what we are looking for, right?
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