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Ontario / Upper Canada
GUIDE - Ontario Municipal Records - A Beginner's Guide
Genealogy & History Resources By Fraser Dunford This edition by Global Heritage Press, Ottawa, 2023 Originally published by Ontario Genealogical Society, 2015
Few genealogists appreciate the goldmine that is municipal records. Municipalities provided an astonishing variety of records, all of them local (by definition!) and many just loaded with names of people living in that locality. This source is not well-known because: (a) you must know the municipality your ancestor was in, (b) you have to know where that municipality’s records are now, and (c) the records will almost certainly be completely, totally, absolutely un-indexed. This guidebook is an introduction to the long list of municipal records that are helpful to family history researchers. It provides a brief history of municiple records that have been collected in Ontario, Upper Canada & Canada West, and a short description of records that researchers can find. Changing boundaries of districts, counties and regional municipalities over a 200 year period are confusing to even experienced researchers. The author included maps that clearly show those boundary changes from 1788 to 1979. Contents include:
Details: More Canadian Genealogy & History Resources from Global Genealogy:
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