Hi everyone, Big news! Upper Canada Land Petitions Index is now available online Subscribers familiar with OliveTreeGenealogy Blog know that I talk about Upper Canada Land Petitions (UCLP) a lot! See http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ and look down the right side TOPICS for UPPER CANADA LAND PETITIONS I also talk about it a lot on AskOliveTree Blog See http://askolivetree.blogspot.com/ You can view an example of a Land Petition for a Loyalist claim which shows genealogists how much detailed information can be found in this wonderful resource. See Upper Canada Land Petition for a Loyalist Ancestor at http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2008/10/upper-canada- land-petition-for-loyalist.html (that's a 2 line URL, must be copied and pasted into your web browser as one line) The terrific news is that Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has just launched a new online database, Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865). Caveat - this is NOT the petitions themselves, this is an INDEX to the petitions, with full details on where the actual petitions can be found for each individual listed. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/upper-canada- land/index-e.html (another 2 line URL. If you can't get it to work, go to my blog at http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/ and click on the highlighted link) Through this online database, researchers can access more than 77,000 references to petitions for grants or leases of land created by individuals who lived in present-day Ontario between 1763 and 1865. This is an amazing new resource and one I'm utilizing already to double-check my previous searches of the microfilm in the Ontario Archives. With the online index you can use wildcards to represent letters, making it much easier to find all spellings of a surname. Using the microfilm index of course you cannot do that and must be very creative in your spelling! Enoy this wonderful new resource! Lorine -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze * Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/LorineMS * Olive Tree Genealogy http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com/ olivetreegenealogy@rogers.com or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com