Good news for people with roots in Newfoundland and Labrador who are researching their family trees.

Vital Statistics has digitized death records registered in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1950 to 1968.

The records are now available through The Rooms website.

Last year, nearly 60,000 death certificates were transferred online to allow the public access for research purposes—the first digital transfer of vital statistics records to the provincial archives.

Marriage, birth and additional death records will be added to the Archives in the near future.

The database can be keyword searched by: name; date of death; sex; marital status; place of death; or date of registration of death. Attached to each individual record is a digital reproduction of the individual’s registration of death.