The virtual Members’ Library is a valuable resource for each member of the Essex County Branch of Ontario Ancestors (The Ontario Genealogical Society). Access into the virtual Members’ Library is provided with a membership to the Essex Branch. For information on how to become a member, CLICK HERE.
If you are a member of Essex Branch, sign in with your Ontario Ancestors account in the Sidebar (or Click here or if you Forgot your Password.) to access Members’ Library Resources, Message Boards, Newsletters, and Databases!
What’s Available in our Members’ Library:
Video Tour of the Members’ Virtual Library
The following is a list of the ‘Categories’ containing documents within the Essex County Branch’s Member’s Only section. Clicking on underlined categories will open indexes to the holdings to provide more detail of what can be found in the collection. New records and documents are added frequently. Many of the digitized records are available for sale individually without a membership. Click HERE to access our eStore (a new tab for the Ontario Ancestors site will open).
- Atlas Records
- BMD (Birth-Baptisms, Marriage, Death notices)
- Books & More (Available for sale HERE)
- Branch Album
- Branch Business
- Cemetery Transcriptions (Available for sale HERE)
- Census Records (Available for sale HERE)
- Church Records (BMD) (Available for sale HERE)
- Directories
- Family Histories (submitted)
- Family Records
- Land Records
- Links
- Maps
- Military
- Newspaper Extractions (eg anniversaries, marriages) (Available for sale HERE)
- Names Researching
- Obituaries (Windsor & Essex County)
- Presentation Recordings (Branch)
- Publication List
- Resource Ideas
- School Records+ (Yearbooks and more)
- Settlers – family records
- Trails – Branch Newsletter
- Voter Lists
- Wills