Mennonite
Historical
Society
of Alberta

March 27, 2014 2:46 pm

Register of Baptisms, 1939-2000

The following Index of information has been extracted from the government-required register by Myrna Belyea, volunteer with the MHSA. The information is portrayed in the form it was found in the register, that is, on an event-by-event basis. Such church registers are used to document the information that a church needs to provide to the vital statistics department of the provincial government. This is why they do not appear in the family group format often employed by Mennonite churches.

The church register contains more information than is portrayed below. The register also contains: sex of person being baptized; occupation of father; place of birth; dates of birth and baptism; and officiating clergyman.

Because harm can come to persons for whom personally identifying information is publicly available, the MHSA is restricting the publishing of this information to the names of the individual who was baptized and their parents. The sequence of the names is as found in the register. Family members or researchers on their behalf who are seeking the additional information in the register can request it from the MHSA may do so by identifying their kinship to the persons below.

Note:

This information is being released under the provisions of the Personal Information and Privacy Act of Alberta (PIPA) Section 20 (1) which says: “An organization may disclose personal information about an individual without the consent of the individual but only if one or emore of ther following are applicable: … (k) the disclosure of the information is to the surviving spouse or adult interdependent partner or to a relative of a deceased individual if, in the opinion of the organization, the disclosure is reasonable … (p) the organization disclosing the information is an archival institution and the disclosure of the information is reasonable for archival purposes or research…”

Section 12 of the Regulations for PIPA indicate: “(2) An archival institution may disclose personal information about an individual without the consent of the individual for a research purpose but only if (a) in the case of individually identifiable information, the disclosure is necessary for the research purpose, (b) the disclosure is not harmful to the individual concerned, (c) the research purpose is not contrary to the purposes and intent of the Act, and (d) … a reasonable person, taking into consideration all relevant circumstances, would find that disclosure of the personal information was appropriate at the time…”

Last updated 13 Oct 2007

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