Welcome to the Ontario County page of the Ontario GenWeb

Have you hit a brick wall with your Ontario County ancestors? Search for your family origins on Ontario County GenWeb. I hope this site will help you find that brick-wall ancestor.

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2 Thumbs Up To Library & Archives Canada for putting digitized images and an index online for Soldiers of the South African War 1899 - 1902 Tip of the Month Ontario County Records * Archives, libraries, museums, etc. * Baptism, birth, marriage, and death * Land Records * Court Records * Church Records * Lovell's 1871 Directory * Newspapers * Municipal/Administrative History * Queries * Ontario County Genealogy Links * Ajax Photos of Ajax in the early days Featured Database Death Records Ontario County Death Records 1870 to 1879 [AncestorsAtRest] Quick Links Census Records Canada Naturalization Records Canada Ancestors At Rest Death Records Past Voices: Letters Home Olive Tree Genealogy Brick Wall Help Search Ontario County 1911 Census Indexes [AllCensusRecords.com] Blog Feeds Genealogy Blogs Olive Tree Genealogy Genealogy updates of free records online and tips for finding those elusive brick-wall ancestors The Paper Trail Eclectic mix of old documents - you may just find an ancestor's will, land record or general store receipt here! Past Voices Letters, letters and more letters! Letters from Civil War soldiers, from wives to husbands, sons to mothers, sisters to sisters... Ancestors at Rest - The blog for AncestorsAtRest.com website. Contains death records of all kinds - funeral cards, death notices, cemetery receipts, obits...and more Family Bibles - Another AncestorsAtRest.com blog of Family Bible entries and pictures of the births, marriages and death pages Antique Hunter - If you like antiques or collectibles, this brand-new blog will be one you don't want to miss!

Ontario County GenWeb Queries in Ontario County Query tips When you send in a genealogical query, there a few basic points to cover: put in as much information about the person you are making the query about as possible. This includes: name (variant spellings should be indicated in full in brackets) dates (birth, death, marriage, arrival in Canada, or the area covered by this GenWeb site) places names of relatives (e.g., wife, husband, parents, siblings, children), if relevant Make sure you proofread your query: spelling should be correct uppercase letters should be uppercase, etc. you ask a question If you send out a general request for help, as in the examples below, you will not get much help and your query will likely be deleted from the query page (after being notified first). Nobody is really going to want to provide everything that they have. Examples that likely won't get a response and that will be deleted. 1. Would like information on the following families: Wilson, Sparks, Johnson, Anderson, Bergeron. 2. Would like information on the Herchmer family. Originated in the USA. 3. Any information of the Jones family of X County (wrong site chosen for posting query). See suggestions on query writing at Good Query, Bad Query Queries Here are some links to several places where queries can be posted. Check out the Lovell's Canadian Dominion Directory for 1871 if you are not certain if the location is in Ontario County. Ontario County This one is specifically for Ontario County. If your query involves other counties, post it there, too. Responses involving the other county should be posted to that county's query page. Ontario - general Use when you know the province is Ontario but are uncertain of the correct site in Ontario. This includes Upper Canada and Canada West. Canada - unknown Use when the location is known as Canada or the province is unknown.

Ontario County GenWeb is hosted by RootsWeb.com          All rights reserved          I can't answer queries as I don't live in Ontario County but a great place to start is the AskOliveTree blog where you can submit your genealogy challenges and brickwalls to Lorine for help.