Welcome to Lambton County Branch
Welcome to Lambton County Branch of The Ontario Genealogical Society.
We are known for our blue water: shipping, fishing, and pleasure activities.
Lambton has wonderful farming fields and oil fields.
Lambton County has wonderful libraries, archives and history museums.
Use this Lambton County site to find Lambton locations
| Lambton Branch Publications OGS E-Store | choose paper or digital publications |
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| Facebook Group | join Lambton Branch Facebook & OGS Facebook |
| About Lambton Branch | The Lambton County Branch is a non-profit organization of people sharing an interest in family history and genealogy. It was organized in 1984. |
| Lambton 2019 Educational Events | Lambton Branch OGS Educational Events are usually held the 2nd Tuesday of each month excluding July & August at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1400 Murphy Rd., Sarnia. Click on Lambton Events to see our schedule of dates, topics and speakers. All interested persons are invited to attend. |
| Ontario Genealogical Society | To the left is the Link to the Ontario Genealogical Society home page where you can find the E-store, TONI (The Ontario Name Index) and links to all other Ontario OGS branches. Lambton Publications are now digital at the E-Store |
| Lambton Members only link | New members please use the Link to the LEFT to sign in. To be a member of Lambton Branch you must first become a member of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS). The 2019 OGS membership fee is $63.00. The membership fee for Lambton Branch is an additional $12.00 per year. |
| RESEARCH And QUERIES | Let Lambton Branch help you with your research. Post Queries for those brick walls. Research costs $20 per hour for non-members. Members get a discounted cost of $15.00 per hour once a year with the first hour free. |
| Lambton Name Index | This Surname index will grow as we add names from the Lambton Branch files. The index includes Cemeteries, Funeral Home records, Home Children, Church indexes and other collections. The branch is hoping to eventually add all indexes. Volunteers are needed and can work from home. |
| Early Settlers Index | Do you have pre-1900 Early Settlers of Lambton Country? Check the Early Settlers Master Name Index (Link to the left) to locate existing records of your ancestor. The Lambton County Archives has paper copies of these records. To add to the Index, please complete this fillable 'Early Settlers' PDF then save it. The Link is below and left. |
| Lambton Early Setters Form | Lambton Researcher Form both these links will let fill in and save form |
| Search Beer's Index | The Beers Index is the index to Commemorative Biographical Records of Lambton County. It is searched by surname, then pages can be ordered for a small cost. |
| Newspaper Notices Collection | The Newspaper Notices collection contains notices of Obituaries, Births, Marriages and Special Events. Lambton Branch is in need of volunteers. Membership isn't necessary. Indexing & some branch jobs can be done online from home. |
| Publications | To purchase digital or paper copies of publications, see the OGS E-store. Members of Lambton Branch, check the Lambton 'Membersonly' site for free publications. |
| Genealogical Links | Many tested sites to help with research in Lambton, Ontario, Canada and around the world |
| Lambton County Archives | The link at left will take you to the Lambton County Archives, the repository that holds the Lambton Branch record collection. |
| Lambton Cemeteries | Lambton County cemetery indexes can be accessed using the link at left. All copies can be bought through the OGS E-store. |
| Members RESEARCH | Are you a Lambton Branch Member? Have you filled out this form? Lambton Branch is building a Member's File to help members identify others with common interests. This can be found in the Lambton 'Membersonly' Section. If you are not a member but like your names added to the list, please fill in this form and those who are members can still reach out to you. |
| Search Lambton History Online Free | The Link to the left takes you to the Internet Archive site where many Lambton high school and history books can be found. |
| Funeral Homes Collections | The Funeral home indexes are now in the Lambton Name Index, which is searchable. |
| Lambton High School collections | Lambton County Branch OGS library holdings. This includes many local family histories & school year books (Link to the left is to the list of year book collections. Some link to full year books.) |
| Lambton British Home Child Registry | Do you have a British Home Child in your family or was one taken in by your family? If so, please fill out this form and send it in (form will download in word). Do you need help finding a British Home Child ? We have 6 volumes of information at the Lambton County Archives (paper copies) and information on Our Members Only web page. |
| Lambton Families History Collection | Link to the left will show the family books in the Lambton County Branch collection. There may be more in the Lambton Archives Collection. It shows the name of the book and author if known and who donated book. |
| Lambton Branch email | Any problems with this site, please email to this link. Thank you. |