OGS President Christine Woodcock sent a message about new resources from the Ontario Genealogical Society of interest to those with Ontario roots.
The digitization team has been busy over the past few months getting records ready for upload to the Society website to be shared with our members. The first batch of records is now available. The plan is to release new records every month for the rest of 2025.
Here’s what’s available in this first tranche.
The Heritage Society Applications
These include applications for OGS heritage certificates: First World War Society, War of 1812 Society, 1837 Rebellion Society, Upper Canada Society, Honouring Our Heroes Society, Fathers of Confederation Society and the Centenary Society. For OGS members only. Mostly these are original documents, presented in alphabetical order by surname, with privacy redactions.
Parliamentary Divorces 1867-1930
For members only, this is a reproduction of a 2001 publication by
J. Brian Gilchrist and Nancy J. Duffy. Find the names of the parties, the locations mentioned and the years of marriage and divorce.
Overseas Deaths of Ontario Servicemen and Servicewomen.
Open to all, this index is to the over 15,000 men and women who lived in Ontario just before they went overseas, and who died in the service of their country during and just after World War II. Seeing page after page is eye-opening, including 47 men named REID. Be sure to check the service file online from Ancestry or Library and Archives Canada (although it was not responding when I tried on Friday).