Toronto Branch marked a milestone this fall with the completion of a major cemetery indexing project in partnership with FamilySearch Indexing. The last entry to be indexed in thousands of burial register pages from the “Toronto Trust Cemeteries” – as the “Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries” was known prior to 1990 – was officially submitted on 27 September 2013. A roster of dedicated volunteers worked for four years to make this happen – indexing and arbitrating about 12,000 register pages, 150,000 records and more than 350,000 names. As a result of their efforts, anyone in the world with an Internet connection can now search the burial records of the following Toronto cemeteries and view the original register pages free of charge on the FamilySearch website:
- York General Burying Ground (Potters’ Field) 1826-1855
- Toronto Necropolis 1850-1935
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery 1876-1935
- Prospect Cemetery 1890-1935
To find out more, visit our Projects page.