Trent Valley

Archives™

Master Name Database

The project for data basing the family genealogies of the founding families of the Five Counties that we service began 27 years ago when past TVA President Andre Dorfman began gathering information for the Dummer Township history book. He began with the 242 founding families of Dummer Township. Since then, the project has been expanded to include Peterborough County and is rapidly encompassing the Counties of Victoria, Durham Northumberland, Hastings and Haliburton.

There are now 210,000+ names in the database. The active participation of the members of Trent Valley Archives is continually increasing the size of the project. All data collected has been carefully researched, but no source documents are attached. It is intended as a finding aid. Birth, marriages, deaths, cemeteries, addresses, dates etc. are listed and available in the Master Genealogist® program format. The entire database is searchable on reader-computers at the Fairview Heritage Centre. The file is updated frequently.

Trent Valley Archives does not download or otherwise provide Gedcoms from this database, and the contents will not be available on the Internet. Trent Valley Archives is a non-profit organization that relies on membership and donations to sustain its very large and well equipped facility. The name database is available as a member service, and to visitors. They may view it in its entirety, and use it as a reference tool for research the same as one would a cemetery transcription or microfilm of vital stats.

Inquiries by email concerning names in the database are welcomed. It is hoped that in return individuals will interact by providing additional information for the collection.

TVA does charge for additional research where laborious time is expended searching microfilm, fiche, printed finding aids, and publications.

We look forward to hearing from you.