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Anglican Registers - How to Login
 
For Guest accounts, your User ID is your email address. For NBGS members, your User ID will be assigned to you.
 
 
 

Note to new members: Setting up your access to ARP is a manual process done by volunteers and may take a week or so to complete.
 
Common login issues: 
 
Member accounts - Use the login name and password sent to you by NBGS. 
 
Guest accounts - Use the email address you used to register for your account.
 
To reset your password: Use the email address you used to register for your account.
 
To find out more about this project and how to use it, go to the Knowledge Base or view an instructional slideshow.
 
If you find an error, report it using our Support page.
 

Anglica Registers - Forgot My Password
 
Make sure to use the email address that is on file with your NBGS account when re-setting your password.
 
What email address did I use to register?
  • NBGS members can login to NBGS, click on then Member Login of the left sidebar. Under that is your Profile. Click Profile, then Contact Info to see the password associated with your account.
  • For guest accounts, please email webmanager@nbgs.ca to confirm the email address used to set up the account.
 
 
 
 
 

Anglican Registers - Search by Name. 
 

Anglican Registers - Register Search

Anglican Registers - Full Text Search
 

Notes about the Search Facility
 
The full-featured search facility is available to all members.   
 
The basic search facility for non-members is also available. Non-members must create a 'guest' account, using a valid email address.  

The search facility fully implements the privacy rules used by the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. At their request, adoption information has been redacted from the images.

Anglican Registers - Privacy Constraints
 
The search facility fully implements the privacy rules used by the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. At their request, adoption information has been redacted from the images.

Anglican Registers Project - Background and Status
 
Project Background
 
The Anglican Church has had a presence in New Brunswick since 1768 when the Rev. John Eagleson was sent by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts to minister to the people living in the Tantramar area of present-day New Brunswick.   Many more priests arrived in 1783 along with the United Empire Loyalists and as they established new congregations they started recording many of the events of church life - baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials and others.  Beginning in the 1960s the Anglican Diocese of Fredericton attempted to gather and preserve these records and, while the process is not complete, there are now 755 registers of various types being held by the Diocesan Archives.  (You can read more about the history of the Diocesan Archives by clicking here.)
 
In May 2018 the New Brunswick Genealogical Society and the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, which now manages the Anglican records on behalf of the Diocesan Archives, agreed to scan and transcribe the many registers and then to make them available to the public on the NBGS website.  Recruitment of a technical team and a large group of transcribers started in August 2018 and, following a pilot phase, the transcription project got under way in January 2019.
 
Many of the registers are very fragile and require delicate handling.  Scanning these registers and then enhancing the images takes a lot of human resources and some expensive equipment.  Fortunately, advances in technology - both hardware and software - have made it possible to enhance the scanned images and eliminate many of the problems that make the physical registers difficult to read.
 
 
Project Status
 
Most of the registers held by the Diocesan Archives of the Anglican Diocese of Fredericton have been transcribed.  However, registers continue to trickle in to the Archives and will be earmarked for scanning as they arrive.  Additionally, we are aware of registers that have been microfilmed in the past but have not been deposited 
 
As data is transcribed and cleaned, it is being moved from the transcription database to the ARP database. This means that new data is regularly being added to this site.
 
As of 6 Mar 2023, the site has:   
  • Registers for viewing - 2152
  • Register page images for viewing - 51,551
  • Transcribed Records for viewing - 504,114
  • Names for searching - 1,243,227