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DOUGLAS A. ROBBINS

Hello, and welcome to all who visit this web site.

I am an educator, a genealogy enthusiast, and a part-time publisher of genealogical resource materials. I first became interested in family history as a teenager almost thirty years ago. Since that time, I have researched my ancestry on both my father's and my mother's side of the family.

My father's ancestors came to Canada from the United States (I believe New Jersey) in the 1790's and settled in the Niagara Peninsula. The primary names that I am researching on my father's side are: ROBBINS, WILSON, WILLFORD, CHAMBERS, COOK and FARR.

My mother's family emigrated from Scotland and Ireland in the early 1800's and all settled in Glengarry County between Ottawa and Montreal. The main families that I am researching on my mother's side are: ANDERSON, CUNNING, McLAREN, McNAB, MORRISON and MacCRIMMON.

At the same time that I was researching these families, I gathered, organized, and published many of the birth, marriage and death records that I came across for these two parts of Ontario -- the Niagara Peninsula and the Ottawa Valley. I also have transcriptions for a number of censuses and cemeteries.

I am in the process of entering my family research into a genealogy database that includes not only my own family connections, but information on a multitude of early families who settled in these two parts of Ontario. I already have over 58,000 names entered and hope to increase this number by at least another 20,000 names by the year 2000. Click here to view the complete index to this database.

Please contact me if you are interested in exchanging family research on any of the families that are listed above, or if I can be of any help to you if you are conducting family research in either Niagara or eastern Ontario.

All of the books listed on the publications page are for sale and may be purchased by writing to me at the address below. You can reach me by telephone at (905) 934-9287 or by e-mail at robbins@niagara.com but all orders must be pre-paid with a cheque or money order. Please add $5.00 for the first book and $2.00 for each additional book to cover mailing costs. Orders from outside of Canada must be paid in U.S. funds.

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