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Ancestry Library Collection (available from within the library only, no remote access) includes records from Canada, the United States, and parts of Europe, including records such as census and voter lists, birth, marriage and death, military, immigration and emigration, family trees, newspapers and periodicals, directories and member lists, stories, memories and histories, court, land, wills and financial, reference materials and finding aids, pictures, maps, and atlases and gazetteers. List of Canadian Content.

FamilySearch  

FamilySearch.org is the largest non-profit genealogy organization in the world. Search for records from around the globe including Canada, and UK and Ireland.View the online video tutorial or check out The Guide to FamilySearch Online, at 929.1 TAN.

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Our Ontario
Find digital image, text, audio and video materials about Ontario history, heritage and culture. Search the collections of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, heritage and community groups, government agencies, and private collections in Ontario and across Canada...via a single search portal. Search results link you to the digital content on the contributing partner's web site.

Noble, Owen and Lougheed, Jopie. Thornbury Review Herald: index to births, deaths, marriages, Oct. 23, 1918 - Dec. 29, 1960, vols. 1-4. (not yet complete) ARCHIVES 070.172 LOU

Index to Obituaries in Thornbury, Ontario Newspapers, 1960-2004 / James N. Thatcher (PDF, 212 KB)

Archives Canada
http://www.archivescanada.ca/

Library and Archives of Canada
http://www.archives.ca/

The Archives of Ontario
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/

Nanaimo Family History Society - Passenger List Indexing Project
http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/

Canadian County Atlas Digital Project
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas

Commonwealth War Graves Commission
http://www.cwgc.org

Grey County Genweb
http://www.rootsweb.com/

Ontario Genealogical Society
http://www.ogs.on.ca

Canadian Genweb
www.rootsweb.com/~websites/international/canada.html

Ontario Genweb
http://www.geneofun.on.ca/ongenweb

Origins Network - Specialists in British and Irish Genealogy Research
http://www.origins.net

Canadian Genealogy Centre
http://www.genealogy.gc.ca

1881 Census of Canada
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1804541

1901 & 1906 Canadian Census
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/census/index.html

Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid
http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa

The Ontario Vital Statistics Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onvsr/

Cyndi's list of Geneology sites 1999-2007
http://www.cyndislist.com

World War 1 soldiers’ attestation papers
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-130-e.html?PHPSESSID=m11qu0uprlag6o9bvjtace78l5#b

Search the National Registration file of 1940
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=93C0006&lang=eng#il