Ontario Cemeteries Resources

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(formerly known as Jan's Research & Obituary Collection)

Where every little obit helps

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Visit the Dufferin County Section
 

OBITUARY REQUEST FORM

 

This page is specially for submitting obituary requests (province of Ontario, Canada ONLY).  Please fill in the blanks as best as you can.  Please note that requests with specific dates of death are given higher priority. Requests without dates will not be made a priority as further research is needed. If you don't have a date of death, please see bottom of this page to see ways you can try to find that information.

Name of Deceased:
(Please provide all names known, including maiden and other married names)


 

Date of Death:
dd-MMM-yyyy ie. 03-MAR-1937; (Requests without dates are no longer accepted)


 

Location of Death:
(city, township and county preferred)


 

Other Information:
(location of birth, other residences, burial location, papers you think the obituary may be in, any information that may be useful)


 

Index Line:
(If you have found an index through the Obituary Daily Times or through other sources that would make the obituary search easy, please enter it here)

 

Your name and email address:


 

Don't have all the information for obtaining the obituary? Follow these steps:


 Primarily a date and location is needed.  Please do the following to see if you can find them:
1. Go to the Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid and try to locate their burial place - looking for date of death
2. Visit "Ontario Cemeteries Resources" to see if someone can help you with a cemetery transcription
3. You can also visit Ontario Vital Statistics - Deaths to see if the death registration has been transcribed online
4. Return and together, we'll try to find an obituary.
 
***** Please try some of the following on your own to try to find the obituary*****
Email the rootsweb county mailing list - if he died in Brant county, kindly see if someone from that county can locate an obituary.  Note - if you don't have a specific date, volunteers are generally less willing to assist. 

Get in touch with the library in the area - usually they are quite helpful

Contact the publication directly - checking to see the lookup policies on their website.  Most won't do lookups, but it's always worth looking into.

Contact the OGS branch and/or archives in that area.  Generally a small fee will apply - if I have to contact them myself and pay the fee, it takes away from the obituary project... and, well, I'm not employed or retired.


(Don't forget, if you can't find an obituary in one location, try their place of birth, other areas they lived, and/or areas where very close relatives were.)

The more information you can provide, the happier and more willing the volunteers will be.

Ontario Obituaries Services

This page was last Updated: Friday October 13, 2006

Information contained in this site is for personal research use only.  Any commercial use of this data is strictly prohibited.  Always refer to  the original publication in case of human error.

© Janet Jones, 2004-2006

Created by Janet Jones for genealogists everywhere!

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Send typed or scanned obituaries via email to janet.jones@ontarioobits.com or by post:

Janet Jones
106 Goldgate Crescent
Orangeville, ON    L9W 4B9

Please include contact information with submissions, and please specify if submissions are from personal family research.

Donations and sponsorship are welcome to help purchase subscriptions to publications and obtain access to historic papers for obituaries, as well as microfilm copying costs. 
(The project also accepts donations payable to the MS Society of Canada in lieu of contributing to the obituary project which will ensure you a tax receipt for donations of $15 or more.)
 If interested, please get in touch - donations accepted by mail (payable to Janet Jones) or by paypal (user janet-jones@sympatico.ca).

  This project is only funded through the kindness of donors - thank you!