Ottawa Branch Library

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Location:	Hours:
The City of Ottawa Archives 100 Tallwood Drive Ottawa, Ontario	Closed Mondays and all public holidays Labour Day through May 30: 9:00-4:00 Tuesday – Friday 10:00-5:00 Saturday except long weekends. The Central Archives is always closed on Sundays, statutory holidays and long weekendsJune 1 through Labour Day: 9:00-4:00 Tuesday – Friday

The new City of Ottawa Archives is complete. For current information about the City Archives including operation hours, please refer to their website.

The Ottawa Branch has donated a Canon M300 II microfilm / microfiche reader to the City of Ottawa Archives . This machine is available to members of the archive’s staff and the public. This machine is equipped with a computer to allow the electronic copying of any microfilm image. In order to copy an image you’ll need to bring a blank CD or a Jump Drive (USB Drive ). Currently there is no internet access for this machine so you cannot email a copy to yourself. A volunteer is usually available to help you use the reader and make copies.

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The Resource Centre also houses the libraries of the British Isles Family History Society of Ottawa (BIFHSGO), the Sir Guy Carleton Branch of the United Empire Loyalist Society, the C. Robert Craig Memorial Library, the Ottawa Repository of the Montreal/Ottawa Conference of the United Church, and the City Corporation’s historical collections and records.

Our Librarian cannot help with emailed inquiries. If you need to request an inquiry of our branch please refer to our inquiries web page.

Volunteers from the partner libraries help to run the Resource Centre. They will serve as monitors, giving limited advice about the collections to visiting researchers, collecting fees and re-shelving books. We can always use additional volunteers. Anyone willing to provide this valuable but not onerous service for half a day per week should contact the librarian or past chair.

The library has a growing collection of over 4,000 catalogued items: including books, articles, talks, films, maps, scrapbooks, family bible entries, lodge records, member’s pedigree charts, many genealogical periodicals, a name index, IGI microfiche, and other genealogical holdings.

This is not a lending library. Please read this information.

Free parking is available.

The telephone number of the Reference Centre is 613-580-2857

NOTE: Due to copyright laws we will not accept requests to copy publications in our library holdings. If you need copies of any material, contact the original author or publisher.

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Branch Co-Chair on 2012/09/07 at 10:06

Please go to http://ogsottawa.on.ca/home/research/genealogical-inquiries/ for instructions on submitting Inquiries to Ottawa Branch. Thanks.

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1. Kelli Taylor on 2012/10/19 at 20:58
  
  Thank you for your encouragement and assistance. My dad and I are here from Alberta, have spent the past 7 days researching at the provincial and national archives, as well as a few days in the local towns. After 15 years of serious searching and the paid services of a professional genealogist, we have not found what we are looking for. We appreciate those we have encountered in Toronto, Cornwall, Morrisburg, and Ottawa. If someone has information about the Wait(e) family, we would appreciate hearing from them. Perhaps we will be able to return the goodwill one day.
  
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  1. Branch Past Chair on 2012/10/22 at 13:35
    
    Kelli, you might consider preparing a short query on the family and submitting it to the editor to be included in the next issue of The Ottawa Genealogist. It has a circulation of about 500 genealogist interested in the local area. The deadline for the next issue is the beginning of December.
    
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Lise on 2012/04/11 at 09:35

My family is considering dispersing the ashes of our loved one who was cremated. However, we are concerned that this will make future genealogy research difficult if there is no cemetary record. We would greatly appreciate your advice.

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1. Branch Co-Chair on 2012/04/11 at 10:27
  
  Lise, there will likely be plenty of records from today for those researching in the future, so I would not worry about the lack of a cemetery record. I hope that your own research will also be available for your descendants.
  
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  1. Lise on 2012/04/21 at 12:15
    
    Dear Branch Co-Chair, thank you so much for your reply. This certainly sets my mind at ease. We can proceed with dispersing my husband’s ashes with no further genealogical concerns. With appreciation, …Lise
    
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Mark Van Valkenburg on 2012/01/29 at 12:15

How do I request a marriage for Adam Van Valkenburg and Anna Diamond who were married on April 2 1811 in Ottawa?

I am not even certain if they were married in Ottawa. I am from Michigan and cannot make the trip to Ottawa to look at microfilm, etc.

I followed some of the links and they appear to be “dead links”(form for payment).

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Glen McKenzie on 2011/03/30 at 19:31

How do I locate Obituaries for James White who died in Ottawa October 22, 1929 and his son Frank White who died in Ottawa some time in 1938.

Glen McKenzie
Swan River, Manitoba

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1. Branch Chair on 2011/09/29 at 18:30
  
  Please see the Genealogical Inquiries page at http://ogsottawa.on.ca/?page_id=192 for assistance from the volunteers
  
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Ivor Banks on 2010/10/07 at 15:40

a Question: Do have back copies of Kawartha Bulletin, Kawartha branch OGS ? If so, are they indexed ? I am looking for Anglican marriage records for Cavan twp.,Ontario. in the 1800′s,pre-civil registration period. I understand from Kawartha that they are in about 5 or6 issues.

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1. Webmaster on 2010/10/07 at 15:50
  
  Select the Searchable Library Catalog link and then type in Kawartha and you see what we have concerning Kawartha.
  
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