The Archives are open Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM (Closed Sunday & Monday). Experienced volunteers staff the Archives and are ready to provide you with personal assistance.

Our holdings include a wealth of research tools and aids for those seeking their family's Norfolk roots, such as the Walsh Papers, historical township records, old area records on microfilm, and several libraries, including a thriving Family Histories collection. Our Early American Library is recognised as one of the finest outside the United States.

More specifically, but far from conclusively...

	Family Records Family files, genealogy books, family histories, newspaper clippings, descendants letters.
	Family Histories To see a complete list of these histories and stories please click here.
	Family Bibles
	Cemetery Tombstone Transcripts Dozens of Norfolk County tombstones transcribed, and several local cemetery keeper logs.
	All released Census Rolls for Norfolk County Census Years: 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901
	Land Records Abstracts and Copy Books covering 1795 to 1950
	Newspapers Various early issues from 1840 to 1860 Simcoe newspapers from 1860 to 1967 Others from Waterford, Port Dover, Tillsonburg, and Jarvis.
	Marriage Records 1795 to 1870 (8,000 indexed by name)
	Vital Statistics collections of Birth-Marriage-Deaths for Norfolk Co. click here
	Church Histories and Newspaper Records from 1870 forward
	Rare Books to Video Tapes
	Scrapbooks
	Hundreds of on-going family queries from other genealogists
	Tweedsmuir Histories on loan from Norfolk district Womens' Institutes, all indexed
	Baptism, Marriage and Funeral Registers from several area churches
	Indexes to Ontario Vital Statistics Birth Marriage and Death records from 1869 forward to 1921
	Various local township records Birth, Marriage and Death registrations, Wills, Voters Lists, Assessment Rolls, business transactions, etc.
	Document collections including thousands of early papers dating from 1795 forward
	Wills indexed from 1796 to 1900
	Published histories of Norfolk County and a collection of Norfolk Historical Society member speeches on local history
	Historical Maps including 1856 and 1877. See the Archives section for a list by subject.
	Assessments, Directories and Voter's List from 1795 forward
	Over a century of photographs of Norfolk residents, groups, homes, farms and businesses
	Hundreds of records and newspaper accounts of Norfolk and area men & women who served in World War One, all carefully transcribed & indexed for easy use

	Loyalist Library of Early Ontario and Early Canada resources supported by the Grand River Branch of the United Empire Loyalists Association
	New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Collections dozens of volumes of early records.
	Early Amercian Library hundreds of books, including Canada's largest American genealogy collection with research material covering the original 13 colonies plus depth sections on New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, New England and Michigan.
	Finding Aids for all other counties in Ontario, other Archives, Libraries and Museums, such as the Archives of Ontario in Toronto, and the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.

This website project has been funded in part by the Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors and the South West Community Adjustment Fund programs.

1000's of Photographs


1000's of books


Miles of microfilm

Numerous biographies

Cemetery Records