Note to all Historians and Genealogists

The Ontario Government has contracted with LDS Family Search to put the 'township papers' of all townships of all counties in Ontario online from microfilm.  This started just last week.  If you find the Family Search site hard to navigate, as I do the Ontario ONLAND land registry to find about lots and buildings, just google the name of the township and 'papers' instead.

This is fantastic news.  Equal to Ancestry's contract with the federal government last year to gift the people of Canada with the records of every soldier in WWI and WWII online as a gift on the 75th anniversary of VE and VJ Days.

Submitted by Elizabeth McDonald

Editor’s Note:  The following links may be of interest for those researching genealogy in Ontario.

Tracing your family history :

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/tracing/index.aspx

Access Digitized Microfilm Collections on FamilySearch

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/digitized_microfilm_collections_on_familysearch.aspx

Archive Descriptive Database

http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll?get&file=[ARCHON]search.htm