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=== Importance of Land Records === | === Importance of Land Records === | ||
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*In 1794, Ontario Land Boards were dissolved— their authority and records were then transferred to the '''more centralized Executive Council'''.<ref name="LBUC">Library and Archives Canada, ''Land Boards of Upper Canada, 1765-1804 '' at http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/land/land-boards-upper-canada/Pages/land-boards-upper-canada.aspx (accessed 16 July 2014).</ref> The land registration system has now been replaced with a land title system, where title to the land is registered. Land title records are held by the Land Registry Offices.<ref name="FLRR"/> | *In 1794, Ontario Land Boards were dissolved— their authority and records were then transferred to the '''more centralized Executive Council'''.<ref name="LBUC">Library and Archives Canada, ''Land Boards of Upper Canada, 1765-1804 '' at http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/land/land-boards-upper-canada/Pages/land-boards-upper-canada.aspx (accessed 16 July 2014).</ref> The land registration system has now been replaced with a land title system, where title to the land is registered. Land title records are held by the Land Registry Offices.<ref name="FLRR"/> | ||
*Until the early 1900’s, a large number of wills (more than half for some counties) were registered with the Land Registry Offices instead of being probated (homologated) in the Courts. Those wills were treated as land records. <ref name="FLRR">"Finding Land Registration Records". Archives of Ontario. http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/documents/research_guide_231_finding_land_registration_records.pdf, accessed 8 October 2020.</ref> | *Until the early 1900’s, a large number of wills (more than half for some counties) were registered with the Land Registry Offices instead of being probated (homologated) in the Courts. Those wills were treated as land records. <ref name="FLRR">"Finding Land Registration Records". Archives of Ontario. http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/documents/research_guide_231_finding_land_registration_records.pdf, accessed 8 October 2020.</ref> | ||
==Types of Land Records== | |||
*'''Instruments and deeds''' – these are the original documents filed by the parties. They include sales, bankruptcies, liens, wills, and other documents transferring or affecting ownership. | |||
*'''Copybooks of instruments and deeds''' – transcriptions made by Land Registry Office staff of instruments and deeds registered with them. | |||
*'''General Registers''' – transcriptions of wills filed at the Land Registry Offices, beginning in 1865; wills registered prior to 1865 would be found in the copybooks of instruments and deeds. | |||
*'''Abstract Indexes''' – indexes to the instruments and deeds for a given township or town, arranged by lot and concession (or subdivision) number. | |||
*'''Alphabetical Indexes''' – indexes to the instruments and deeds for a given township or town, arranged by name of the parties. | |||
==Information in Ontario Land Records== | ==Information in Ontario Land Records== | ||
*where and when ancestors lived in an area | *where and when ancestors lived in an area | ||
*the name of spouses, heirs, and other relatives | *the name of spouses, heirs, and other relatives | ||
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**and his place of birth. | **and his place of birth. | ||
== Using Ontario Land Records == | == Using Ontario Land Records == | ||
===Research Guides and Instructions=== | |||
'''Archives of Ontario Research Guides:'''<br> | |||
*[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/documents/research_guide_231_finding_land_registration_records.pdf Finding Land Registration Records] | |||
*[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/documents/research_guide_215_grant_to_patent.pdf From Grant to Patent: A Guide to Early Land Settlement records, ca. 1790 – ca. 1850] | |||
**[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/documents/pathfinder_land_patents.pdf Pathfinder Research Guide to Land Patents At the Archives of Ontario] | |||
*[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/documents/research_guide_205_land_records.pdf Using the Ontario Land Records Index ca. 1780 - 1920] | |||
**[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/documents/pathfinder_ontario_land_records_index.pdf Pathfinder Research Guide to: The Ontario Land Records Index (OLRI)] | |||
*[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/documents/research_guide_225_resources_for_researching_land_records.pdf Researching Crown Land Records] | |||
*[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/documents/pathfinder_petitions_for_land.pdf Pathfinder Research Guide to Petitions for Land] | |||
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'''OnLand Records at My Moynahan Genealogy Blog. These give step-by-step instructions and have some good illustrations:''' <br> | |||
*[https://moynahangenealogy.blogspot.ca/2018/01/part-iv-onland-records-historical-books.html Part I: OnLand Records: Historical Books: First Registration Book Instruction] | |||
*[https://moynahangenealogy.blogspot.ca/2018/01/part-i-onland-records-historical-books.html Part II: OnLand Records: Historical Books: Abstract/Parcel Register Book Instructions] | |||
*[https://moynahangenealogy.blogspot.ca/2018/01/part-iii-onland-records-historical.html Part III: OnLand Records: Historical Books: General Register Index Instructions] | |||
*[http://moynahangenealogy.blogspot.ca/2018/01/part-iii-historical-books-canada-lands.html Part IV: Historical Books: Canada Lands Index Instructions] | |||
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Some Ontario land records are indexed. Others are not indexed, but are organized geographically by their legal land description which includes the county, township, concession number, and lot number. | Some Ontario land records are indexed. Others are not indexed, but are organized geographically by their legal land description which includes the county, township, concession number, and lot number. | ||
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