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Welcome Home to OGSPI
( Ontario Genealogical Society Provincial Index )

Updated 2010-03-07 1,573,872 names 37,804 files 1,302 megabytes

This Ontario Genealogical Society Provincial Index - abreviated OGSPI - is a hypertext library established in 1997 as a volunteer project to index an unlimited range of Genealogical information on Ontario families.
All data contained in this index is copyright by the Ontario Genealogical Society.

Contact OGSPI team leaders John and Lynda Allan if any entry should be updated or changed.

This Feb 2010 upload adds:
Easthope South Township 1861 census
Easthope South Township 1871 census
Easthope South Township 1881 census
Easthope South Township 1891 census
Easthope South Township 1901 census
Waterloo Township 1851 census

The Jan 2010 upload added:
Port Colborne Village 1871 census

The Dec 2009 upload added:
Carden Township 1871 census
Dalton Township 1871 census

The Nov 2009 upload added:
Rolph Buchanan Wylie McKay Townships 1871 census
Galt Town 1851 census
How the OGSPI website works

The Oct 2009 upload added:
Humberstone Township 1871 census
Crowland Township 1871 census

The Sept 2009 upload added:
Woolwich Township 1851 census with maiden names
Woolwich Township 1881 census with maiden names

The August 2009 upload added:
Updated logic for links from OGSPI to OGS Branches
Many maiden names in Monaghan South Township 1891 census

The July 2009 upload added:
McKellar Township and Hagerman Township 1881 census and 1891 census cross references.
   We now show census cross references indented with a smaller font.

The June 2009 upload added:
Many maiden names in Hope Township & Port Hope Town census files

The May 2009 upload added:
Woolwich Township 1871 census
Ashfield Township 1861 census section 1

The April 2009 upload added:
Asphodel Township 1891 census
Ops Township 1891 census division 2
Downie Township 1871 census

The March 2009 upload added:
347 families in Cramahe Township 1891 census
Elzevir Township 1861 census agricultural
Rawdon Township 1861 census agricultural
Sidney Township 1861 census agricultural
Haldimand Township 1881 census

Effective February 2009 the OGSPI sorting/indexing/uploading software is restructured to satisy a number of privacy concerns.
Cutoff dates are :
   Census 1911 ( same as Library & Archives Canada )
   Births 1912 ( same as Ontario Vital Statistics )
   Marriages 1927 ( same as Ontario Vital Statistics )
   Deaths 1937 ( same as Ontario Vital Statistics )
   War & Military 1953 ( end of Korean War )
   Other Categories 1940
Search engines like Google will probably still point to directories and files within OGSPI where newer information used to be.

Normally as Genealogical researchers we each go backwards in time generation by generation seeking details for :

   2 parents
   4 grand parents
   8 great grand parents
   16 great great grand parents
   32 great great great grand parents
As a practical consideration - we do not have the volunteer or financial resources to computerize and index every name in every newspaper and handwritten document from earliest Ontario settlement through to 2009. The doubling relationship should remind present and future volunteers that it makes sense in a restructured Ontario Genealogical Society Provincial Index to focus our efforts on transcibing and adding favorite older sources like the census and the publicly available years of Ontario Vital Statistcs.

The February 2009 upload added:
Haldimand Township 1891 census
Hamilton Township 1891 census
Wainfleet Township 1871 census
Pelham Township 1871 census division 2
Woolwich Township 1861 census
Monaghan North Township 1891 census
Monaghan South Township 1891 census
Lakefield Village 1891 census
Cobourg Town 1891 census
Verulam Township 1891 census

The January 2009 upload added:
Nipissing District 1861 census
Campbellford Village 1891 census
Colborne Village 1891 census
Omemee Village 1891 census
Humphrey, Watt, Cardwell Townships 1891 census
Pelham Township 1871 census division 1
Seymour Township 1891 census
about 2000 more names on WW1 cenotaphs

The December 2008 upload added:
Nissouri East Township 1861 census
Kennebec Township 1871 census
Downie Township 1861 census
Franklin, Sinclair, & Chaffey Townships 1891 census
Sidney Township 1861 census agricultural
Thurlow Township 1861 census agricultural
Pugwash 1871 census division 1

The November 2008 upload added:
1861 census Instructions to Emumerators
Minto Township 1861 census
Coaticook Village 1871 census

The October 2008 upload added:
Wellesley Township 1871 census major corrections

The September 2008 upload added:
more Hamilton City 1891 census from OGS Hamilton Branch
Galt Town 1871 census division 3

The August 2008 upload added:
923 families in Woolwich Township 1891 census
Galt Town 1871 census divisions 1 & 2

New Linking Software - July 2008 Test Upload

The original 1997 OGSPI Mission Statement was Doing Every Ontario Family - Plus Ancestors - Plus Descendants.
As computer technology evolved from 386 to 486 to Pentium the Mission Statement expanded to Doing Every Ontario Family - Plus Ancestors - Plus Descendants, ( with Maiden Names and Total Cross References ).
One OGS member commented "Always aim high. Then you can't shoot yourself in the foot."
We still need more volunteer typists to get to Every Ontario Family but the late June and early July 2008 uploads celebrate a major step towards Total Cross References in the text to html conversion logic. Try Grattan Township 1851 census to test drive the new linking software. You can click any surname on the current screen to jump to that surname in the All Categories master index. Note also that the cross references even work across name changes like COYN/COYNE and McMASTER/McMASTON.
Please contact OGSPI team leaders John and Lynda Allan if you find a scrambled entry or bad link.

The July 2008 upload also added:
247 families in Downie Township 1851 census
536 families in Dumfries North Township 1871 census

The June 2008 upload added:
Faster 3 letter menu system for groups like : McA McB McD McE McF McG McH McI McJ McK McL McM McN McO McP McQ McR McS McT McU McV McW McY McZ

The May 2008 upload added:
Faster 2 letter menu system at the top of this first screen
Tiny Township 1871 census
more Hamilton City 1891 census from OGS Hamilton Branch
How 2 letter surnames work in OGSPI
How X letter surnames work in OGSPI

The April 2008 upload added:
Minden Township 1891 census from OGS Kawartha Branch
102 families in Seymour Township 1891 census from OGS Kawartha Branch
more Barton Township 1891 census from OGS Hamilton Branch
Maccan 1871 census
WestChester 1871 census

The March 2008 upload added:
Brighton Township 1891 census from OGS Kawartha Branch
Brighton Village 1891 census from OGS Kawartha Branch
Dalton Township 1891 census from OGS Kawartha Branch
Laxton Digby Longford Townships 1891 census from OGS Kawartha Branch
Lutterworth Township 1891 census from OGS Kawartha Branch
161 families in Dumfries North Township 1871 census
more Hamilton City 1891 census from OGS Hamilton Branch

The Febuary 2008 upload added:
New Hamburg Village 1871 census
more Hamilton City 1891 census from OGS Hamilton Branch
Ellice Township 1901 census

The January 2008 upload added:
Uxbridge Township 1861 census
Hope Township 1861 census

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