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"Taking the past into the future"
Halton-Peel Branch
PO Box 24
Streetsville, ON, L5M 2B7, Canada
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Welcome to our web site
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The Halton-Peel Branch of the OGS was formed on 27 November 1974.
View/print a PDF copy of the Branch's ByLaws (dated: 27th November 2011).
- We assist genealogists with family roots in Halton and Peel Regions (formerly Counties).
- Our membership of over 400 have access to Monthly Meetings, our Newsletter, and both the OGS Members Resources and our Branch's Members-Only web site which contain on-line research data and past newsletters.
- Our Library Collection is located at the
Four Corners Branch of the Brampton Public Library
- Publications pertaining to genealogy in Halton and Peel can be obtained at our meetings, through mail order, or ordered on-line.
- Cemeteries:
- An Index of Cemeteries is available, and links to pages about each along with their historical lot location, current address, GPS (global positioning system) coordinates and directional map with zoomable satellite view, are being added as volunteer time permits.
- Cemetery Transcriptions is an on-going project to record the cemeteries in both regions.
To date, 209 cemeteries have been located of which 181 have been published.
Details of these are available on our Publications page.
Transcribing gravestones has become a "do at home" project, using photos and your own computer.
More volunteers are needed for this. Contact Dorothy Kew for
further details.
- Cemetery Surname Searches are available, and links to cemetery information are a "work in progress" via this same page.
- The Branch is currently in the process of gathering information on
Places of Worship in both regions and this information is being added to this web site.
- Interactive Township maps for
Halton and Peel
have links being added, and these will provide much more information as we increase the content of this web site.
- Special Events – Information on Conferences, Regional Meetings, Book Fairs, etc.
- Research queries can be made by writing to the Branch at the above address or by E-mail:
- Research queries may also be placed in our Newsletter.
- Ongoing Projects:
- Strays – individuals found in a record (other than an unpublished family history) in an area other than where they were born.
- Settlers Sheets – members are requested to complete an interest sheet for each of their ancestors in Halton and Peel Counties. These will be used to make contact with others researching the same individuals.
- 1851 Census – an index is being complied of every name in the 1851 census for the counties of Halton and Peel.
- Compiling Methodist Vital Statistics – a joint venture with Toronto Branch and the United Church Achives.
- Links to our Executive Committee & Board Members.
- How to become a member of the Ontario Genealogical Society and the Halton-Peel Branch.
- How to Research Your Family History – Links to the Ontario Genealogical Society's Research Guides.
- Local History Information and Databases for Halton and Peel Counties:
- Our Ontario
Discovery Portal — search on-line through a multitude of Ontario records/newspapers/images/videos/etc.
- Archives of Ontario's
Halton County map and
Peel County map
— click on the map to enlarge it.
- McGill University Library's
Historical Atlas of Halton County
with land owners names and an alphabetical index of land owners.
- McGill University Library's
Historical Atlas of Peel County
with land owners names and an alphabetical index of land owners.
- Other Internet Resources for Genealogy Research
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This page last updated 15 May 2013