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Hello and Welcome! I am Eric Marsh, your County Coordinator for Brant County, Ontario. I manage the site but it is your site, so feel free to offer suggestions, submit materials, or pitch in and help! You may want to look at the volunteer section below to find ways in which you can help. I would like to thank the previous Host Vikki Gray for all the work that she put in to put this site together |
Places to Start your Search
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Happenings in Brant County |
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Sharon Monarres has provided some pages from the Autograph Book of Miss Hettie Stewart, Also there is a list of other names from the book. The book is called "Masonic Autograph album" and contains Autographs from the 1880's |
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A huge list of books about Brant County for further research, includes sources to obtain these books. |
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Biographical
Sketches from
Although these
are in alphabetical order, be sure to check all Twps and use your
browser's "find" feature so you don't miss a name. Many
surnames are buried in other family bios. |
Some of these files are large, so file sizes are listed.
Burford
- Township (55 kb) |
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Indian History-Six Nations (35kb) |
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Brant Area Schools |
Ontario Institute for the Education of the Blind Brantford Collegiate Institute |
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Contributed courtesy of John Overholt |
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A handy list of known cemeteries. Some transcriptions online. |
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To help you get your feet on the ground. |
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Directory of Ontario 1851
City
of Brantford - Complete
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New! Thanks to an ongoing transcription by Linda Asberry, info is being posted here as completed. Linda says many people have helped her along the way and she wanted to do what she could to repay their kindness. |
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This is the beginning of a list of children evacuated to Brant County during WWII. Please email me with any names you want to add. |
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Suzanne Schaller, coordinator for Perth County has put together some great information on how to research in Canada and what records are available. |
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Felons Of Hamilton, Haldimand and Brant (Index) |
New! an index of all surnames in this Brant County and area History book. |
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Biographical sketch of Chief Joseph Brant. |
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Fun Stuff |
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Glimpse of the Past (Index) |
New! an index of all surnames in this Brant County History book. |
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Quotations from historic roadside plaques of Brant County. |
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Early 1900s letters from Laura Gundy, living in Scotland, Ontario, to Elberta Craig (Bertie) who lived in Brantford and then Craighurst, near Barrie. Courtesy of Sheila Craig |
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Related sites to research |
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A list of people who can help - Some do lookups at no charge and some charge a fee for those times when you need some "in-depth" research. And if you can help - please contact me! |
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Join the county mailing list and you can get help on Brant County from other researchers in this locality. |
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All kinds of Brant maps |
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Post/view queries, bible records, biographies, deeds, obits, pensions, and wills here. Learn to use them! - they are a great resource! A huge collection of obits have been posted by KathyLee Ballantine and Tammy LaForme. |
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Military |
Photo and name roster for 18th Canadian Battalion "D" Co., West Ontario Regt. taken May 1919 |
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Post births, marriages, divorces and deaths here |
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Nurses - Brantford General Hospital |
A list of
nursing directors and graduates, courtesy of Mary Lou Finn. Contains
maiden and married names. Some pictures too. |
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A list of 1850 subscribers to a road company |
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Photos - Buildings & Places Page 1 |
Submit any interesting photos you have! |
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Photos - Buildings & Places Page 2 |
Submit any interesting photos you have! |
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Photos - Groups of People |
Assns, employee groups etc. Photos of Burford Public School classes from 1921 and 1928 have been added |
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Photos - Brant People |
Page 1 - Submit your photos! |
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Photos - Brant People |
Page 2 |
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Photos - Brant People |
Page 3 |
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Photos - Brant People |
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Photos - Brant People |
Page 5 |
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Photos - Brant People |
Page 6 |
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Photos - Brant Homes |
Homes of some of the early Residents of Brant County |
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Photos of Products Made in Brant County |
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Photos - Brant County Residents who served in WW-2 |
Thanks to Bev Golden |
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Poole Family Reminiscences |
Some kind soul sent me this and I managed to lose my notes on their name. Please let me know! |
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Where the data is and who to contact - Brant County government, libraries, gen societies and museums, available census records, etc. |
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Scott/Ferguson
Album Pg 1 |
Please send in any Brant related photos for posting.
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Search the Brant County GenWeb Site |
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For all you poor Smith researchers out there. Cliff Ilton has extracted all the Smiths out of the 1871 Brant County Census. |
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Post your Brant County surname here! |
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A list of those in the Ontario Provincial Archives. Courtesy of John Overholt. |
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We are a volunteer driven project and the more people that know about us the faster we can get all the currently released Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registrations on-line. We are currently accepting individual registrations as well as volunteers who would like to transcribe and input registrations from assigned Vital Statistic reels. |
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For early Brantford |
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Township Histories from |
Brantford
Township - complete |
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Transcribed Census Data |
1818
Dumfries, Gore District Assessment Page 1 By Brant Cooper |
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Transcribed Church Records (Thanks to Diane Meehan) |
Requires Excel or Excel Viewer, get Excel Viewer free Here |
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The Brantford
Public Library has put the Births, Marriages, Deaths Index |
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For Brantford |
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Help solve the mystery. An 1872 letter written in Paris, Ontario to Lancashire, UK. |
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Web Pages |
Links to interesting sites about Brant County People and Places |
Waterloo
County
- to the North
Other GenWeb Project Links
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This site won the July 2000 Canada GenWeb Award of Excellence |
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Brant
County Volunteers |
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Do you have
any Local History books that you would be willing to use for an
occasional lookup request?
If
you have problems, please email Brant
County Coordinator.
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