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Below you will find our
guides and pathfinders to help navigate your research based on common types of records and topics. They include:
- Customer service guides to give you information on services available to you, and using our records
- Research guides to help you find records on specific topics
- Pathfinders to give you step-by-step instructions on finding some of our most popular records.
Click on the categories below to consult the corresponding guide and/or pathfinder.
- Research Guide 230 - Finding Bankruptcy Records - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 207 - Researching Ontario Bills and Statutes - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 219 - Researching Ontario Regulations (1867 to the Present) - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 202 - Vitals Statistics Records - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 203 - Understanding the Vital Statistics Indexes - Word, PDF
- Pathfinder to Birth Registrations - Word, PDF Updated!
- Pathfinder to Marriage Registrations - Word, PDF Updated!
- Pathfinder to Pre-1874 Marriage Registrations Acquired from the Office of the Registrar General - Word, PDF Updated!
- Pathfinder to Death Registrations - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 204 - Sources for Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Word, PDF Updated!
- Guide to Published Transcriptions and Indexes of Pre-1874 Marriage Records - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 220 - Census Records - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 229 - Finding Change of Name Records - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 217 - Corporation Records of the Government of Ontario - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 218 - Partnership and Benevolent Society Registration Records - Word, PDF Updated!
- Customer Service Guide 108 - Copyright and Your Research - Word, PDF Updated!
- Archives of Ontario’s Public Policy on Copyright Policy - Webpage
- Customer Service Guide 107 - Citing Archival Records - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 233 - Criminal Justice Records - Word, PDF
- Customer Service Guide 101 - Reading Room Rules - Word, PDF Updated!
- Customer Service Guide 105 - Reproduction Services and Fees - Word, PDF Updated!
- Customer Service Guide 110 - Microfilm Interloan Service - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 221 - Directories, Telephone Books and Voters Lists - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 210 - Finding Divorce Files in Ontario - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 216 - Student and Teacher Records - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 300- Records Related to Black Communities in Ontario - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 235 - Ethno-Cultural Records - Word, PDF New!
- Customer Service Guide 109 - Freedom of Information and The Protection of Privacy - Word, PDF Updated!
- Customer Service Guide 111 - Genealogical Researchers in Ontario - Word, PDF Updated!
- Customer Service Guide 112 - Freelance Researchers List - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 222 - Genealogy Collections and Published Genealogies - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 299 - Sources of Family History - Word, PDF
See also Birth Marriage and Death, Land, Census, Wills, Adoption and Guardianship, Divorce, Immigration, Military, UEL, Health and Education
- Research Guide 201 - The Records We Do and Don't Have - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 224 - Patient Health Practitioner Records - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 228 - Immigration, Naturalization and Citizenship Records - Word, PDF Updated
- Research Guide 301 - Records related to Indigenous Peoples - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 205 - Using the Ontario Land Records Index ca. 1780-ca. 1920 - Word, PDF
- How to use the Ontario Land Records Index - Word, PDF
- Understanding the Archival Reference Code in the Ontario Land Records Index: How to Find the reel of Microfilm You Need - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 215 - From Grant to Patent: A Guide to Early Land Settlement Records, ca.1790 to ca.1850 - Word, PDF
- Pathfinder to Petitions for Land - Word, PDF
- Pathfinder to Land Patents - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 225 - Researching Crown Land Records - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 231 - Finding Land Registration Records - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 226 - Militia and Military Records - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 213 - War of 1812 Records - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 208 - A Guide to Researching Records of Ontario Municipal Board Hearings - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 209 - Finding Municipal Records - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 214 - Municipal Land Use Planning - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 236 - Property Assessment Records - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 212 - Newspaper Holdings of the Archives of Ontario - Word, PDF Updated!
- Finding Aid L 23, Original and Microfilm Newspaper Collections in the Archives of Ontario - Word, PDF
- Research Guide 227 - United Empire Loyalist Records - Word, PDF Updated!
- Research Guide 206 - How to Find a Will in Court Records - Word, PDF Updated!
- Pathfinder to Estate Files - Word, PDF Updated!