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I am trying to find birth records for my 3rd Great Grandmother, Hulda Judd. She was born in Leeds, Upper Canada on 10 July 1807 to Arza and Lois Knapp Judd. Any help would be appreciated.
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In the early 1800s it was up to the individual religious denomination to keep birth/baptism records, if it chose to. The Census Act 1847 Canada West (Ontario) required clergy to report baptisms, marriages and burials on a quarterly basis to county clerks of the peace. So the question becomes, is there any information to indicate which religious denomination the parents of this ancestor may have been affiliated with in 1807 (or lived close to the circuit of a traveling minister), and did they have the child baptized/christened. Then it would be a matter of tracking down the possible records for that denomination, in that locale at that time. Sometimes one is lucky in finding these records. You do have a lot of information to go on, you have the actual birth date, and the names of the parents. 1807 was very early in the settlement of Leeds County, Upper Canada.
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https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-243418907/huldah-judd-in-familysearch-family-tree?s=1242829172 The LDS Church keeps excellent records!
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Checking church records is a great idea. Luckily Canada recorded denominations on the censuses, so make sure you check what faith they followed before diving into the many collections. To find what church records FamilySearch may have, us the Catalog search (found under search on the FamilySearch home page). I would reccommend looking at the town level, then county. Search for the place name and anything we have should be under the "church" record category.
If you are not finding the relevant collections, contact Ontario Ancestors (the provincial genealogy society). They have many branches and wonderful members who may know where else you can access church records for the area.
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