Personal Records Unit
Researcher Services Division
National Archives of Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0N3
CANADA

Archives of Ontario
77 Grenville Street
Toronto, ON M5S 1B3
CANADA

Province of Canada

Both the Archives of Ontario and the National Archives of Canada lend copies of many of their microfilmed records to public libraries through the interlibrary loan service. See the Canada Research Outline (34545).

If you plan to visit either of these archives, contact the organization and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees.

There are also major genealogical collections located at:

Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON M4W 2G8
CANADA

University of Western Ontario D. B. Weldon Library
1151 Richmond Street North
London, ON N6A 3K7
CANADA

Inventories, Registers, and Catalogs

A directory of addresses, telephone numbers, hours, and brief description of collections is:

Taylor, Ryan. Important Genealogical Collections in Ontario Libraries and Archives: A Directory. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1994. (FHL book 971.3 J54t; not on microfilm.)

See the “Societies” section of this outline for a directory of Heritage Organization repositories.

A few localities have published inventories of sources relating to their area; these are at archives throughout the province. An excellent example is:

Bloomfield, Elizabeth, ed. Inventory of Primary and Archival Sources: Guelph and Wellington County to 1940. [Guelph, Ont.]: University of Guelph, 1989. (FHL book 971.342 H23i; fiche 6104305.)

Computer Networks and Bulletin Boards

Computers with modems can be useful tools for obtaining information from selected archives and libraries. In a way, computer networks serve as libraries. The Internet, certain computer bulletin boards, and commercial on-line services help family history researchers:

• Locate other researchers.
• Post queries.
• Send and receive E-mail.
• Search large databases.
• Search computer libraries.
• Join in computer chat and lecture sessions.
  

You can find computerized research tips and information about ancestors from Ontario in a variety of sources at local, provincial, national, and international levels. The list of sources is growing rapidly. Most of the information is available at no cost.

Addresses on the Internet change frequently. As of September 1997, the following sites are important gateways linking you to many more network and bulletin board sites:

• Canada GenWeb

http://www.cam.org/~beaur/gen/cdgenweb.html
A cooperative effort by many volunteers to list genealogical databases, libraries, bulletin boards, and other resources available on the Internet for each county and province.

• Canadian Genealogy Resources

http://www.iosphere.net/~jholwell/cangene/gene.html
Lists county, provincial, and national resources; personal pages; and publications.

• Roots-L

http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/canada.html
A useful list of sites and resources. Includes a large, regularly updated research coordination list.

FamilySearch™

The Family History Library and some Family History Centers have computers with FamilySearch™. Familysearch is a collection of computer files containing several million names. This is a good place to begin your research. Some of the records come from compiled sources; some have been automated from original sources.

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