Thanks to the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) and a local library, the Norfolk County Branch’s library collection has been preserved and is now accessible for genealogists.
In October 2014, the OGS announced that its Norfolk County Branch had to change its status from active to inactive because of a lack of members.
The OGS issued the following statement in its weekly e-newsletter on Saturday, July 25, 2015.
The Ontario Genealogical Society has officially loaned the library collection of the inactive Norfolk County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society to the Norfolk County Public Library. The collection is now held at the Simcoe Branch of the Norfolk County Public Library, 46 Colborne Street South, Simcoe, Ontario, in the Canadiana Room. The Simcoe Branch of the Norfolk County Public Library can be contacted at 519-426-3506 extension 5. Information about hours of operation and a map to the library can be found at http://www.ncpl.ca/locations/simcoe-branch/.
The Norfolk County Public Library is also working on a project to digitize some of this material in addition to their own local history collection. You can search the Local History Database with a simple or advanced search.
Researchers are indebted to the willing volunteers of the former Norfolk County Branch of OGS who spent the many hours making sure that all of this genealogical information would be available.
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I hope to be able to use these resources. I have not a lot of info on my Canadian ancestors but Norfolk and Simcoe are places in that line.