FINDMYPAST ADDS 6 MILLION NEW RECORDS FROM THE ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

I received the following press release yesterday from  Alex Cox of Findmypast:

 

FINDMYPAST ANNOUNCES ONLINE RELEASE OF OVER SIX MILLION ONTARIO RECORDS IN FIRST PHASE OF NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Ottawa: 16th June 2017
Leading family history website Findmypast has just announced an exciting new partnership with the Ontario Genealogical Society. Announced today at the Society’s 2017 annual conference in Ottawa, the partnership will see Findmypast publish millions of OGS records online in a series of phased releases. The first phase will be launched later this year with the online publication of over six million fascinating Ontario records, including;

•        The Ontario Name Index (TONI) – over 3.7 million records - a mega-index of names with the goal of including every name found in any publication relating to Ontario, ranging from registers of birth, marriage & death to obituaries, memorial inscriptions, newspaper articles and more.

•        The Ontario Genealogical Society Provincial Index (OGSPI) – over 2.6 million records - containing data from censuses, birth, marriage and death registers, references in books, land records, passenger lists, military records and a host of other references.

•        Oddfellows Life Insurance Applications (1875-1929) – over 240,000 names released online for the very first time, containing a collection of just over 59,000 life insurance applications to the Odd-Fellows’ Relief Association of Canada. The applications contain answers to up to thirty-one questions about sex, age, occupation, height, weight, ethnic origins, marital status, family structure, and past and present health conditions.

•        Ontario Genealogical Society Bulletin/Families and NewsLeaf – new images from official society publications and journals will become available to search through Findmypast’s Periodical Source Index (PERSI) - the largest subject index to genealogy and local history periodical articles in the world.

The partnership will allow Findmypast and The Ontario Genealogical Society to offer wider access to these invaluable resources, providing many more genealogical connections and a more comprehensive experience to family historians all over the world. The announcement marks the latest step in Findmypast’s drive towards creating a healthy ecosystem of partnerships and building on their Canadian offerings. 

These newly released records will be complemented by Findmypast’s unrivalled collection of British and Irish data, and those searching for Ontario ancestors can now reap the benefits of Findmypast’s wider collection of over eight billion world records.