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- This week’s Ontario Ancestors virtual presentation topics include… Library and Archives Canada, DNA, French Canadian research, Scottish research, MyHeritage, and mind mapping
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- This week’s crème de la crème — October 12, 2024
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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Canada’s first funeral home Morse & Sons index online
The Ontario Genealogical Society Niagara Peninsula Branch has completed the Morse & Sons Funeral Home Index. On Facebook, they wrote: “We currently sit at 19,709 funeral records and they now encompass 1828 to 1965. Check these great records out along … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario
Tagged funeral home, Morse, Morse & Son funeral home, Niagara Peninsula Branch OGS, OGS
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New Nova Scotia vital stats to go online this summer
The Nova Scotia Archives is currently digitizing births registered in 1914 (including delayed registrations), marriages registered in 1939, and deaths registered in 1964. The Archives expects to upload these records — more than 25,000 — in July. This latest batch … Continue reading
Free BCG webinar explains Complex Evidence
On Tuesday, February 24, the Board for Certification of Genealogists will present a free webinar with F. Warren Bittner: Complex Evidence: What it Is, How it Works, Why it Matters. The webinar is open to all genealogists who want to improve … Continue reading
Posted in Lectures, Conferences, Online Learning, TV, News
Tagged webinar
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OGS Toronto Branch to live stream meeting for first time
For the first time, this Monday, February 23, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time, the Ontario Genealogical Society Toronto Branch will live stream a lecture. The Toronto Branch said, “This meeting will mark an exciting new beginning for Toronto Branch — … Continue reading
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Tagged live streaming, Toronto Branch, YouTube channel
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19th-century Irish Catholic church in Montreal re-purposed
Many churches across Canada are facing dwindling numbers of parishoners. In some cases, parishes have merged; some have closed their doors and sold their church; and some churches have been demolished. No matter what your spiritual beliefs, most of us … Continue reading
Posted in Montreal
Tagged church, Sainte-Brigide-de-Kildare church
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Ancestry adds Canadian Quaker meeting records
Last week Ancestry added the Canada, Quaker Meeting Records, 1786-1988 database to its website. The database contains records from various Quaker meetings in Canada. Most of the records come from Ontario, but you will also find records from other provinces, … Continue reading
This week’s crème de la crème — February 21, 2015
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs How Our Ancestors Died by Dr. Terrence Punch on GenealogyandFamilyHistory. Police by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD. Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn 150 year history by Juliana L’Heureux on The Franco-American … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged Ancestry, blogs, causes of death, civil war, copyright, death, disease, electronic newsletter, enewsletter, family history writing, Franco-Americans, Hochelaga, Lewiston, Maine, Montreal, Mount Hermon Cemetery, North-West Mounted Police, Northwest Mounted Police, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Saskatchewan, StoryWorth, writing
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“Old Originals” from St. Lambert volunteered to serve during WWII
The following is a transcript from the front page of The Home-Town News, St. Lambert, Montreal 23, P.Q., Vol. 11, No. 8, November 1, 1945. More than 800 young men from St. Lambert enlisted during the Second World War. This … Continue reading
Posted in Military, Montreal
Tagged Bennett, Calhoun, Carswell, Cole, Cooper, Coveney, Crichton, Golden Mile, Harrison, Holmes, Homes, Horsfall, MacGregor, Peterkin, Quartz, Royle, Saint-Lambert, Sharp, Sonne, St. Lambert, Tompkins, Trott, Vincent, Withers, WWII
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Free webinar tonight about immigration and overseas genealogy
Ignore the cold and snow for an evening and join the Florida State Genealogical Society’s Poolside Chats monthly webinar series. Sitting at the pool at 8:00 p.m. will be Chicago-based Jacqueline Krieps Schattner who will talk about A Guide to … Continue reading
95 years of BC directories available online
When I wasn’t looking, the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) added 15 years of city directories to its online database. We can now search 95 years of directories, from 1860 to 1955. This is an incredible resource for genealogists whose ancestors … Continue reading