Exploring Online Resources

These helpful electronic resources can assist you with your family and local history research. Need further assistance? Contact us by email at askus@wpl.ca or phone 519-886-1310 ext 124.

Databases

Ancestry.com Library Edition 
Gale Courses - Genealogy Basics

Local

OurOntario (photos from WPL’s collection and digitized Waterloo Chronicle newspaper)
Region of Waterloo Library: Local History
The Eby Book
Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation
Waterloo Branch-Ontario Genealogical Society
Waterloo Historical Society
Waterloo Region Generations
Historical Walks in Waterloo
County and City Directories

National & International

Archives of Ontario
Canadian Heritage
Commonwealth War Grave Commission
Cyndi’s List of Genealogical Sites
Digital Archive Ontario
Family Search-Latter Day Saints
Federation of East European Family History Societies
Genealogy & Family History (Gov. of Canada)
Genealogy Gateway to the Internet
Genuki – U.K. and Ireland Geneaology
Library and Archives Canada
Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid
Ontario Genealogical Society