FamilySearch now available at Bruce County library and museum
The Bruce County Public Library and Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre have added FamilySearch to their in-person resources after receiving Affiliate status. The FamilySearch Affiliate designation allows local library and museum patrons to access more genealogy records.
FamilySearch is a non-profit, volunteer-driven genealogy organization - the largest of its kind worldwide. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help build this outstanding database, FamilySearch and its predecessors have actively gathered, preserved, and shared genealogical records worldwide for more than 100 years.
FamilySearch has more than six-billion searchable names and two-billion images of historical records. Adding more than 300-million genealogical records and images, annually, it is quickly becoming the world's top ancestry resource.
The Bruce County Genealogical Society, whose reference library is housed in the Research Room at the museum, has identified some of the historic record images now accessible at the museum and library branches, which may be of particular interest to Bruce County residents, including Ontario Surrogate Court (Bruce County) Index of Probate Records, early local church minute books for various Bruce County churches, German Catholic Parish Registers, and Scottish Parish Registers.
“This new resource will allow community members to make many fun, personal discoveries about their families through documents that recognize life events, such as birth, baptism, marriage and death registrations, as well as census records,” says Glenys Johnson, president of the Bruce County Genealogical Society.
“We are pleased that researchers visiting Bruce County’s public library branches, as well as the genealogical society’s library in the museum’s Research Room, will be able to access this resource to discover more details about their families.”
Patrons of the museum or any of the library branches are encouraged to ask about FamilySearch during their visit, for more information.
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