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Archives Lanark
1920
Concession 7 Road, Drummond Centre,
Perth, Ontario K7H 3K4
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History
Comes Alive at
Archives Lanark. . .
Each year
many patrons from Canada and the U.S. visit the Archives researching family
roots and learning more about where their ancestors lived. Local historians
and genealogists, families, church groups and school children use the
Archives.
Intrigued? See for yourself. 
The Archives is an independent non-profit organization accountable to
its stakeholders, the members of the Lanark County Genealogical Society.
It relies on volunteers, the generous support of the Society and users
of the facility.
The foundation
of the Archive's collections is the land records for Lanark county. At
the beginning of this millennium, the land abstracts along with the
supporting deeds and legal documents for all land transactions from the
1860s to the mid 20th century were destined for destruction until
a lobby group of historians and genealogists convinced Queen's Park to
allow organizations in each of the Counties to take and preserve the records.
The Lanark Genealogical Society seized the opportunity and undertook to
create a County Archive.
Archives Lanark is an incorporated entity within the Province of Ontario
and a registered charity within Canada.
Resource
Materials
Available
The
Lanark County Land Registry Abstract Books and Land Deeds dating from
1868 to 1955
Listings
for local cemeteries, census records, early church records of baptisms
and marriages
Scrap-books of births, deaths and marriages gleaned
from local newspapers.
 Compiled
alphabetically, they complement the published indexes of the Almonte Gazette,
Lanark Era and Perth Courier which cover the earlier years up to the 1930's
Original copies of The Almonte Gazette - 1920 -
1980 (also available on micro film);
Tweedsmuir History Books Family histories
Collections Available
- Viola Reid Collection, Pakenham Township
- Early Photographs & Glass Slides - late 1800’s, by R.J. Stead,
local photographer
- The Poole Papers
- The Geddes Diaries
Other resource materials are available, drop in and see if we have the
key to your past!
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