This presentation will introduce the key sets of both primary and secondary documents used for Métis genealogy research, and explain where to find and access these records, held by various institutions. There will also be information shared about how the Métis Nation – Saskatchewan (MN-S) Registry uses these records to prove an applicant’s genealogical connection to an historic Métis ancestor.
Christine Charmbury is a genealogist with the Métis Nation – Saskatchewan (MN-S) in Registry department, where she has worked in various roles since 2019. Christine is also the Vice President of the Saskatchewan Council for Archives & Archivists (SCAA), an organization she has been involved with since 2007. Christine has 25 years of professional research experience with an academic background in Indigenous Studies and History, including 11 years as an archivist at the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, and prior research positions at the University of Saskatchewan and at Gabriel Dumont Institute. Christine is from Saskatoon, where she lives with her partner and their two rescue cats, and her own Métis roots are based in Star City, Saskatchewan, via Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, with many ancestors who were employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company in the fur trade – Cummings, Monkman, Bird, Garrioch, Cook, and Thomas.
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