The Norfolk Historical Society Archives holdings include a wealth of research tools and aids for those seeking their family's Norfolk roots, such as the Walsh Papers, historical township records, old area records on microfilm, and several libraries, including a thriving Family Histories collection. Our Early American Library is recognised as one of the finest outside the United States.
More specifically, but far from conclusively...
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Family Records
Family files, genealogy books, family histories, newspaper clippings, descendants letters. |
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Family Histories
(Here's a partial list.) |
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Family Bibles |
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Cemetery Tombstone Transcripts
Dozens of Norfolk County tombstones transcribed,
and several local cemetery keeper logs. |
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All released Census Rolls for Norfolk County
Census Years: 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 |
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Land Records
Abstracts and Copy Books covering 1795 to 1950 |
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Newspapers
Various early issues from 1840 to 1860
Simcoe newspapers from 1860 to 1967
Others from Waterford, Port Dover, Tillsonburg, and Jarvis. |
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Marriage Records
1795 to 1870 (8,000 indexed by name) |
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Various Vital Statistics collections |
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Church Histories and Newspaper Records
from 1870 forward |
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Rare Books to Video Tapes |
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Scrapbooks |
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Hundreds of on-going family queries from other genealogists |
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Tweedsmuir Histories on loan from Norfolk district Womens' Institutes, all indexed |
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Baptism, Marriage and Funeral Registers
from several area churches |
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Indexes to Ontario Vital Statistics
Birth Marriage and Death records
from 1869 forward to 1921 |
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Various local township records
Birth, Marriage and Death registrations, Wills, Voters Lists, Assessment Rolls, business transactions, etc. |
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Document collections including thousands of early papers dating from 1795 forward |
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Wills
indexed from 1796 to 1900 |
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Published histories of Norfolk County and a collection of Norfolk Historical Society member speeches on local history |
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Historical Maps
including 1856 and 1877 |
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Assessments, Directories and Voter's List
from 1795 forward |
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Over a century of photographs
of Norfolk residents, groups, homes, farms and businesses |
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Hundreds of records and newspaper accounts of Norfolk and area men & women who served in World War One, all carefully transcribed & indexed for easy use |
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Loyalist Library
of Early Ontario and Early Canada resources
supported by the Grand River Branch of the
United Empire Loyalists Association |
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New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Collections
dozens of volumes of early records. |
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Early Amercian Library
hundreds of books, including Canada's largest American genealogy collection with research material covering the original 13 colonies plus depth sections on New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, New England and Michigan. |
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Finding Aids
for all other counties in Ontario, other Archives, Libraries and Museums, such as the Archives of Ontario in Toronto,
and the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa. |
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1000's of Photographs
100's of books
Miles of microfilm
Numerous biographies
Cemetery Records
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| Hundreds of WW 1 records transcribed from area newspapers |
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