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Canadian Space Aliens Alert

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Attention: Canadian Space Aliens! Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay  Did your 19th century Canadian immigrants arrive via UFO?  Did they, by any chance, mention if Katherine/Katy/Kittie unknown maiden name was with them?   I've been searching for Kittie Kinney for twenty years with no success.  I won't go into the facts and assumptions in this particular ancestor; this blog has a different purpose. While it is easy to treat searches at Ancestry or Family Search as if we were doing routine U S research, we are probably overlooking much available material at those sites and definitely missing other sites that focus on Canada. It is always easier to filter your search by location thus eliminating the hundreds/thousands of results you might get.  Ancestry At Ancestry you can select only the Canadian records by going to the regular search dialogue box, choose "Collection Focus" and then "Canada".  You can further choose Census or Birth, Marriage, Death record