What's Where?
by John Cardiff
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Norfolk's
Premiere Genealogy Archive is located at the Norfolk Historical
Society's Norfolk Heritage Centre at the Eva Brook Donly Museum in Simcoe. With a few exceptions,
if its not there, you face a much bigger challenge. Visit their website:
norfolklore.com
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Norfolk County
Land Records are at Spruce Row Museum in Waterford, Norfolk County.
Call ahead to ensure the Museum is open and that the
Land Records are accessible: (519) 443-4211
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Cemetery stone
transcriptions are the speciality of the Norfolk Branch of
the Ontario Genealogy Society. Their genealogy collections are housed
in the secure History Room, at the Public Library, 40 Colborne Street South in
Simcoe. (They may be examined, not removed.) Visit
their web
site for more info.
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There are other
Museums in Port Dover, Teeterville, Tillsonburg (Oxford County) and
Cayuga (Haldimand County) that may be of interest. The largest
cemeteries are Oakwood Cemetery in Simcoe, and Greenwood Cemetery in
Waterford, but there are more than 100 smaller cemeteries scattered
across Norfolk County.
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Museum in Simcoe
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