Page 3 - La Généalogie retrouver ses ancêtres

Introduction

This three-volume set of books contains more than 250,000 nameentries.
The majority of naIne entries were "heads of familles" in Ontario's pasto
Today, their descendants would number in the millions and be found
throughout the world.

To prociuoe this directory, we compiled and indexed infonnation from
more than 400 townships, from a wide variety of sources. and then alphabet-
ized the names into one single list. The resulting ''master index" will prove
to be valuable for historians, genealogists. biographers, researchers and the
public at large.
Each name entry is identified by a source code number, whieh refers to a
specifie book, map or mm where information regarding that pernon ès located.
Many entries include detalls about occupahons. Most entries provide a year
when the inclividual Wa.9 born. married. died orat lea.9tayearwhen they were
known ta be living. a.9 well a.9 where they lived.
People of Onwrio. 1f>()()-19lili. Wa.9 compiled and indexed over a ten-year
period by our founder and a team of compiJers and indexers. Special thanks
is also due ta our programmer, who assu.red us tbat our computer program
would faithfully alpbabetize and print out the final Iist of names, along with
the information Jearned about each person.

Genealogy ha.9 always been acknowledged a.9 an auxilliary branch of
hlStory. However, titis partieular publication demonstrates that genealogy
is a science - a science that seeks to ldentify a particular individual.

By organizing our information according to the scientifie standards of
genealogieal researoh, we are confident that an invaluable research tocl has
been ereated, both for now and for generations yet to come.

Noel Montgomery Elliot,
Director of Researoh
The Genealogical Research Library
October. 1984