Ontario Compiled Genealogies

Most archives, historical societies, and genealogical societies have special collections and indexes of genealogical value. These must usually be searched in person. See:

Archives of Ontario
the database in the “Accessing Our Collection” section of our website. Click here to access description for the Archives of Ontario Genealogical and Biographical Research Files Biography and Genealogy Index: This card catalogue is a name index to a variety of genealogical sources and biographical information on individuals and families. The Index has not been updated for many years. There are some explanatory cards (e.g., abbreviations used in the index) at the start of the index. This card catalogue is available on microfiche in the Reading Room. Genealogies Collection: This collection has genealogies completed and donated to the Archives prior to the 1970s. Most of the genealogies are available on self-service microfilm in the Archives' Reading Room and through the Microfilm Interloan Service. Click here to access the Microfilm Interloan Service. A description for these records is available in the Archives Descriptive Database. Click here to access the description for the Genealogies Collection. Published Genealogies: The Archives has a small number of published genealogies. For more information, click here to search BiBLION, our online library card catalogue, for more information (you will find this database in the “Start Your Research” section of our website). 2 The Archives no longer collects published genealogies but you can find some in the Canadiana Collection, North York Central Library Branch, Toronto Public Library (5120 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario M2N 5N7, 416.395.5623). Local archives and libraries may also have published genealogies.
 * Archives of Ontario. Biographical and Genealogical Card Index for Ontario, 1780-1869. Digitized.
 * Archives of Ontario Genealogical and Biographical Research Files: These files have information on a limited number of families in Ontario that Archives’ staff have researched. The Archives no longer collects this information. A description for these records is available in our online Archives Descriptive Database; you will find

William Perkins Bull Collection
An important genealogical collection, the William Perkins Bull Collction, was transferred in 1991 from the Archives of Ontario to the Region of Peel Archives in Brampton. The Collection includes research notes that are alphabetically arranged by family name, newspaper clippings, and other records collected in the 1930s on more than 2,000 families in the Peel County region. Part of the "Families" series from this collection is on microfilm at the Archives of Ontario. It is not at the Family History Library. It is described in:


 * Bull, Wm Perkins. Guide to the Wm. Perkins Bull Records at the Region of Peel Archives. Brampton, Ontario: Region of Peel Archives, 1995. . WorldCat.

Family History Library
The Family History Library has microfilm copies from the Archives of Ontario of:


 * Reive, W. D. Dr. W. G. Reive Collection.  Niagara District. . Digitized. Includes cemetery transcriptions and historical and genealogical information. WorldCat.

Family histories and other records of genealogical value included as parts of books and periodicals located at the Family History Library are indexed by county in:


 * Sykes, Ernie and Eileen Sykes. Supplementary Index to Canadian Records. Volume 2: Ontario. Revised. Salt Lake City, Utah: Family History Library, 1985. . Digitized.

Loyalists
This book is basic to genealogical research on Ontario Loyalists:


 * Reid, William D. The Loyalists in Ontario: The Sons and Daughters of The American Loyalists in Upper Canada. Lambertville, New Jersey, USA: Hunterdon House, 1973. . WorldCat. Used early land records to make the family groups given here.

Ontario branches of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada have published lineages of some of their members. An example is:


 * Loyalist Ancestors: Some Families of the Hamilton Area. Toronto: Pro Familia Genealogical Services, 1986. . WorldCat.

Indexes
Two useful indexes to genealogical information in published Ontario sources are:


 * Elliot, Noel Montgomery. People of Ontario 1600-1900: Alphabetical Directory of the People, Places and Vital Dates. Three Volumes. London, Ontario: Genealogical Research Library, 1984. .WorldCat.
 * This master index lists over 250,000 people alphabetically by surname from more than 400 townships. Citations include: surname, given names, type of event (birth, marriage, death, etc.), year, sometimes an abbreviated place name, and always a source code (often including a page number). The appendix at the end of each volume provides bibliographic information about most, but not all, of the 153 sources. Many of the sources appear to be the series of illustrated historical atlases of the counties of southern Ontario published between 1876-81. See Ontario Maps. Other sources include directories, census extracts, collected biographies, and local histories. Looking up the source may provide further information about the date, event, or residence.


 * Elliott, Noel Montgomery, ed. The Central Canadians, 1600-1900: An Alphabetized Directory of the People, Places, and Vital Dates. Three Volumes. Toronto, Ontario: Genealogical Research Library, 1994. . WorldCat.
 * Master index of over 500,000 people found in 211 sources for Ontario and eight sources for Manitoba. It is an index to many published atlases, biographies, census records (1851-1881), directories, familly histories, genealogies, immigration lists, land records, local histories, Loyalist listings, marriage records, native races, naturalizations, and slavery records.