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Welcome to The Ontario Genealogical Society

Ontario Ancestors – The Ontario Genealogical Society is an Ontario registered non-profit corporation, a registered Canadian charity and, is Canada’s largest member supported genealogical organization. Founded in 1961, with the vision of being recognized as the authority and leader in all aspects of Ontario related family history research, preservation and communication, the mission of Ontario Ancestors – The Ontario Genealogical Society is to encourage, bring together and assist those interested in the pursuit of family history and to preserve Ontario’s genealogical heritage. Ontario Ancestors – The Ontario Genealogical Society has 30 geographically based branches throughout Ontario together with 5 special interest groups (British Home Children, Eastern European, Scottish, Irish and Irish-Palatine).
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Just Updated - Free Online Michigan Historical Newspapers! Just added 124 new titles for a total of 1,762. Use these new and updated free links to search for your Michigan ancestor newspaper articles.

Check them out at https://buff.ly/3uMHvEX #genealogy

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Our upcoming workhouse talk got the office talking about the differences between tracing wealthy ancestors and poorer ancestors. Which do you think is easier and why?

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Find My Past is a subscription newspaper site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently their collection numbers over 50 million pages. Last month, Find My Past added 28 New Titles and updated 148 titles.

They are listed at https://buff.ly/3jqrBwW #genealogy

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