RESEARCH SERVICES:
KARA offers a balance of Fee for Service options through which you can carry out your research objectives:
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Purchase copies of documents through our online Store: VISIT WEB STORE »
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Access the KARA Service for copies of birth/marriage/death Registrations which can be picked up at the Ontario Archives and sent on to you.
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Contract with KARA for hourly research work to be completed on specifc family names or individuals at either the basic $25.00 per hour rate or the detailed research rate of $50.00 per hour.
Some KARA volunteers make monthly trips to the Ontario Archives in Toronto and while there will, for a nominal fee ($3 each registration or two for $5), pick up BMD registrations for you.
You search the ONTARIO VITAL STATS Index births, marriages or deaths microfilm for the person/event. Index films are available at KARA's Research Centre.
- Make note of the full name, the date of the event, the place of the event and the registration number.
- Complete an ONTARIO VITAL STATS order form available at the KARA Research Centre or click the icon below to display a printable image on your monitor.
- You may hand your order form with payment to a volunteer staff member or mail the form with payment enclosed, to KARA, P.O. Box 162, Peterborough ON, K9J 6Y8.
Both registration and film/reel numbers are required to complete a look-up. After obtaining the registration number from an Ontario Vital Statistics Index microfilm, you'll need to reference a film list to obtain the film/reel number. Registration documents are filmed in groups, each group containing hundreds of reels of film. Lookups cover:
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MS929
Represents the birth registration group. Using the number obtained from the index, look up and quote the film/reel number associated with that index number.
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MS932
Represents the marriage registration group. Using the number obtained from the index, look up and quote the film/reel number associated with that index number.
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MS935
Represents the death registration group. Using the number obtained from the index, look up and quote the film/reel number associated with that index number.
Carefully confirm the number of the film/reel that contains the desired document image. Film lists are available at our Ancestral Research Centre or online at the Ontario Archives website.
To print an Ontario Archives Pickup Form Click The Following Link »
Purchase research service through KARA at one of our hourly rates:
All orders $ 25.00 per hour.
Conducted in the following types of documents: census and assessment, newspapers, directories, local histories, family histories and church records.
All orders $ 50.00 per hour.
Conducted in the following types of documents: local land records, wills, newspapers or Wesleyan Methodist Church baptisms.
To print a KARA Contracted Research Form Click The Following Link »
Materials to be consulted may or may not be indexed. Not all records are available at KARA. Outside resources may involve driving to a cemetery, another archive location, perhaps to another town.
KARA and its volunteer researchers are not liable for errors either in the reporting of information retrieved from records, or information incorrectly stated within searched records. No guarantee is given that a search will yield successful results. Refunds are not given for searches that yield no information. In cases where a photocopy of a record cannot be obtained, an extracted text copy will be provided.