NHS Archives holdings include the Walsh
Papers, historical township records, and a wealth of research tools and
aids for those seeking their family's Norfolk roots, such as old area
records on microfilm, and several libraries, including a thriving Family Histories
collection. Our Early American Library is one of the finest outside
the U.S.
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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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
and Newspaper Records
from 1870 forward |
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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 |
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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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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 |
Beyond Norfolk Resources: |
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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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Aids
to 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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100's of Photographs
1000's of books

Miles of microfilm
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