Local History
The first phase of the newspaper digitization project is now complete. Many thanks to the Friends of the Library, Donna Field, and the Homecoming Committee, the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport (OLCF Grant), Archives of Ontario, and Our Digital World for making this project possible.
West Grey Library Newspapers is where our new birth, marriage, death (BMD) database is located as well as the following newspapers.
Local history books, cemetery records, West Grey Industry clippings and family histories to name a few to assist you with your search are available in West Grey Library branches. Please contact your local branch for more details.
The Library also has the following material:
West Grey Library Newspapers is where our new birth, marriage, death (BMD) database is located as well as the following newspapers.
- Durham Chronicle Digital Copies 1867-1968
- Durham Chronicle Indexes
- Durham Standard Digital Copies 1859-1863
- Durham Standard Indexes
Local history books, cemetery records, West Grey Industry clippings and family histories to name a few to assist you with your search are available in West Grey Library branches. Please contact your local branch for more details.
The Library also has the following material:
- Ancestry.com (Available only in the Library) (on the computers)
- Cemetery records (Local History Room)
- Family histories (Local History Room)
- Newspapers (on microfilm)
- Genealogy reference books
West Grey births, deaths and marriages from 1859 - 1902 & 1907 - 1914.
An index to obituaries from 1897 to 1950 in the "Hanover Post", now "The Post".
Accessed only from our Durham Branch, with Ancestry you can search records from Canada and around the world to uncover your family story.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
Genealogy
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