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About Us

The Ontario Metis Family Records Center (OMFRC) is dedicated to researching and documenting the aboriginal and Metis families of Ontario.  While Ontario is our primary focus, it is impossible to restrict our research to only Ontario.  Many aboriginal and Metis families traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada.  Our research therefore encompasses both countries.  We have been gathering information for over 40 years and we have records as far back as the early 1600s.

Thousands of people have family traditions of an Indian ancestor but don’t know the exact details.  With each generation the information passed down to the next generation becomes more obscure.  We want to document as much as possible before the opportunity is lost forever.  If you haven’t already done so, we encourage you to talk to any elderly relatives before their knowledge is lost forever.  Talk to all of them.  Don’t assume that brothers and sisters know the same things.  Grandma may have told one of them something that the others never heard.

We believe that it is possible to find these unknown ancestors by entering the details of these oral traditions into a database and comparing the information with other families’ traditions.  Coupling tradition with written records vastly improves the chances of identifying your aboriginal ancestors.  Ontario aboriginal families deserve to know their ancestry.

We gather our information from a variety of sources:  our members, public records, genealogy records, family histories, local histories, government records, interviews, land grants, scripts, military records and census records, to name a few.

Traditionally family research is done by starting with yourself and working backwards to previous generations.  We do the same but also document every aboriginal individual we find in historical records and seek out their descendents.  By working both from the present to the past and from the past to the present we are often able to connect our two methods of research.

Anyone with aboriginal ancestry can apply for their Certificate of Aboriginal Status.  This includes former members of  the Ontario Metis Aboriginal Association (O.M.A.A.).   It appears that OMAA is gone.  Our organization, OMFRC, has undertaken the task of issuing the aboriginal and Metis status cards.

For those of you interested in doing your own aboriginal research, see ‘Do Your Own Research’ for suggestions on how to build your aboriginal or Metis family tree.  Aboriginal and Metis genealogy can be difficult and we want to help with your Native research.  We hope you will share your findings with us.


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