Family HIstories

Perhaps a distant cousin has already documented one or more of the branches of your Norfolk County families.  You may wish to check out the following.

Norfolk Historical Society Archives has a growing list of genealogies on file. Most are out of print and available only for on site inspection in the reading room. If you are unable to visit the Archives yourself, an experienced volunteer will research these publications for you at a modest fee and provide copies at a reasonable cost.

Use the alpha list below to find your family from B to Z.

Note the main families are listed aphabeticaly so use the Control Find keys to do a search for other families that may be listed..

Families beginning with A are listed below the alpha search list. 

B C D-E-F G-H I-J-K  L M N-O-P-Q R S T-V W-Z
  
  

Story of the ACKERTs, Peter and Catherine, and Their Descendants, 1793-1993
By Anne S. Ackert. Self-published, hard cover, approximately 200 typewritten
pages. Many photographs.
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 10

AISTON - CHAMBERLAIN: Family History: 
By Louise Aiston Chamberlain. Published by American Memories, Stuart,
Florida, 1981. Hardcover, 556 pages. 
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 1

ANDERSON: Notes on the DOAN and ANDERSON families:
By unidentified author. More a collection of typewritten papers than a genealogy.
Typeset, loose-leaf, approximately 50 pages.
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 9

John ANDERSON Story
By Marion W. Anderson of Waterford, Ontario. Unpublished, loose-leaf binder,
typed text, photographs, 1989.
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 6

ANDERSON: Pioneer Edison Cemetery Picnic, July 17, 2000: Descendants
of Captain Anthony ANDERSON and Elizabeth TAYLOR. 
By Lori Mifsud, self-published word processed genealogy.
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 14.

ANDERSON: Captain Walter ANDERSON
See M 9a


ANDOVER: Four generations: Population, Land and Families in Colonial
Andover, Mass.
By Philip J Greven Jr., Soft-cover book that includes the early families of
Andover, Mass. 
NHS Archives number: MASS 27.

Descendants of James Richard ANGER: 
By Robert L. Heil of St. Thomas, Ontario. Unpublished monograph done by
word processing, 9 pages. Undated, but includes references as recent as 1993. 
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 11 

ATKINSON Family Tree 
By Edward L. Atkinson. Unpublished monograph, approximately 15 pages, 1989.  
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 5 

Sources in AUSTIN Genealogy
By William R. Yeager. Published by the Norfolk Historical Society, 1978.
Loose-leaf, typed, 145-page mimeograph, unbound, three-hole punched.
Includes photographs, source notes, genealogy, historical document quotations. 
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A-2
Available from the Norfolk Historical Society's click here for price and ordering, Gift Shoppe.

Some Ancestors and Descendants of Solomon AUSTIN: 1600-2000
By David Austin Avery, self published, hardbound copy, 2007. Contains the
history of Solomon AUSTIN of Maryland and North Carolina to descendants
including those from Lynn Valley, Norfolk County.
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 16

AUSTIN: Family Reunion of 1977, Simcoe, Ontario:
Families of Richard AUSTIN, father of Solomon. Also includes STYLES, POST,
BOWMEN, EASTMAN, DECOU names. Three-ring binder donated by David C.
Austin.
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 4

Ancestors and Descendants: Edwin Rufus AUSTIN:
by Grace K. (Crewe) Austin. Spiral Bound copy compiled and edited 1977-2000. 
Self published. From England to New England to New York to Ontario (Norwich,
Oxford County- the birthplace of Edwin Rufus AUSTIN).
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 13  

The ANGUISH Family in Canada: Lewis ANGUISH 1794-1868,
His Descendants and Ancestors.
By Robert Harris self-published 1998. Indexed.
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 11

AWDE Family History edited by Hilda Awde. Published by Murray Awde, 1989.
Indexed, soft cover, coil-bound, 227 pages. Includes text, charts and pictures. 
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 7 

AWDE Family History (Volume 2) 
by Hilda Awde and Douglas H. Jones. Unpublished. Duo-Tang, desktop
publishing pages. 1997.
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 7

AXFORD Family History, 1681-1989
by Shirley M. Ewanick. Self-published, 1989. 321 pages, hard cover.   
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 3b  

AXFORDS of New Jersey
by Donald E. Axford. Unpublished, loose-leaf monograph. 393 pages,
soft cover.  
NHS Archives number: FAMILIES A 3 

AXFORDS of Oxford, New Jersey, beginning in 1725
by William Clinton Armstrong of Blairstown, New Jersey.
Reprinted by Genealogical Researchers, Washington, New Jersey, 1984.
NHS Archive number: FAMILIES A 3a

AXFORD: Descendants of Joseph AXFORD:
as well as Benjamin BACON, James HENRY, William JULL, MARLATT,
James SMILEY and Thomas WOOD By Douglas and Marilyn Cross.
Black three-ring binder - self-published.
NHS Archive number: FAMILIES A 15.

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