Upper Ottawa Valley
Genealogical Group

Queries and Research Requests

Queries posted in the UOVGG newsletter

U.O.V.G.G. members may submit unlimited number of queries to Timberline. It is easiest to submit a query by e-mailing the Timberline editor directly at , but queries by mail will be accepted and forwarded to the editor. Please include your membership number with your query.

Non-members must submit their queries by mail to:: Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogical Group
P.O. Box 972
Pembroke ON Canada K8A 7M5
with a payment of $5.00 per query.

Research Requests

U.O.V.G.G. members may submit one free name or couple (marriage request) for research from the sources listed below per calendar year. Please include your membership number with the request. Payment is expected for subsequent requests at rates specified below.

Non-members must submit payment with each request. The fee is $ 10.00 per name or couple along with the S.A.S.E.

OCFA (Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid) & OCAI (Ontario Cemetery Ancestor Index) transcription requests are $5.00 for first person & $2.00 for each additional person.

All research requests should be sent by mail to:: Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogical Group
P.O. Box 972
Pembroke ON Canada K8A 7M2

A self-addressed stamped envelope must accompany all requests (S.A.S.E.). Out-of-Canada envelopes must have Canadian postage, the money to cover Canadian postage or an International Reply Coupon.

All requests must be specific. The name must be accompanied by an approximate time period and location. For example a search of all cemeteries or census transcriptions for Renfrew County or Pontiac County will not be undertaken. We are also unable to reply to very general requests such as “please send me all the information you have on such & such family”.

Research will be from the following U.O.V.G.G. library holdings:

ONTARIO (Renfrew County)

Transcribed Censuses - location needed (see Library Holdings)
1871 Renfrew County Census films - township, division and page number needed from on-line index or in “Index 1871 Census of Renfrew County & the North”
Renfrew County Township Papers on microfilm - Township, lot & concession number needed
Transcribed Cemetery Inscriptions-location needed (see Library Holdings)
Copies of Birth, Marriage and Death Items from “Index of Pembroke Observer & Upper Ottawa Advertiser, 1867-1898” by Iris Elliot-name, issue date and page number needed
Births, Marriages and Deaths from Pembroke Newspapers 1900-1912
Births, Marriages and Deaths from Pembroke & Area Newspaper Clippings late 1990’s to 2004/2005
Westmeath Pastoral Charge Church Records 1870-2000
Marriage Registers of Ontario, 1858-1869, Vol. 29 Renfrew County
Renfrew County Marriage Registrations transcribed by Olga Lewis 1869-1890-approximate year needed
Weslyan Methodist Baptismal Registers, Renfrew County 1830-1895
Baptismal, Marriage & Death Records, St. Alexander’s R.C. Church, Deep River 1898-1939
North Renfrew County R.C. Burials
Marriage Repertoire, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Lapasse 1851-1973 and St. Jean Baptiste 1914-1973 by Julien Hamelin
St. Columbkille, Pembroke Burial Records 1856-1889

QUEBEC (Pontiac County)

Transcribed Censuses - location needed (see Library Holdings)
Transcribed Cemetery Inscriptions - location needed (see Library Holdings)
Mariages du Comte de Pontiac, 1836-1973
Wesleyan Methodist Baptismal Register-Out of Ontario 1826-1909
Births, Marriages & Deaths, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Allumette Island
Pontiac County Protestant Baptisms, Marriages & Burials, 1864-1911 from St. Stephens’s, St. George’s and St. Matthew’s Anglican Churches
Les Mariages de la Paroisse Saint-Pierre, Fort CoulongeSt. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish, Vinton 1875-1996
St. James the Greater Parish, Portage du Fort 1851-1998
St. Ann’s Parish, Grand-Calumet Island, 1846-2004