Monthly Archives: November 2018

Ontario Genealogical Society announces 2020 conference dates and location

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Gail Dever

For those who like to plan ahead, the Ontario Genealogical Society announced its conference in 2020 will be held in Hamilton at the Hamilton Convention Centre, June 5 to 7, 2020. The conference chair is Anne Currie-O’Brien, the society’s corporate secretary. … Continue reading →

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Set your holiday table with family history place cards

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Gail Dever

While American genealogists (and non-genealogists) are busy celebrating Thanksgiving today, genealogists elsewhere can take advantage of a collection of place cards Ancestry created to generate conversations about family history around the holiday dinner table. Each place card has a question, … Continue reading →

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Black Friday sale — Half price off Legacy Family Tree webinars

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Gail Dever

I don’t often blog about genealogy sales. Instead, I usually promote them on the Genealogy à la carte Facebook group. There is one this week, however, I want to share. Subscriptions to Legacy Family Tree webinars are half price through … Continue reading →

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Webinar — Locating and learning more about ancestral villages

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Gail Dever

The Southern California Genealogical Society will host a free webinar, You Located the Ancestral Village of Your Ancestor — Now What?, presented by Nancy Waters Lauer, today, November 21, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time. Now that the ancestral village of … Continue reading →

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Newspapers.com adding more Canadian newspapers

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Gail Dever

Access to Canadian newspaper archives may be improving on Newspapers.com, which Ancestry created in 2012. In a November 9 post on the website’s blog, Fishwrap, was news about more Canadian newspapers being added. “This month we’re excited to announce that … Continue reading →

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Webinar — Every day life of our ancestors

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Gail Dever

Legacy Family Tree and the Board for Certification of Genealogists will host a free webinar, Every Day Life of Our Ancestors, presented by Ann Staley, on Tuesday, November 20, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. Our ancestors led lives, just like us … Continue reading →

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Experience 19th-century Canada through the lens of William Notman at Canadian Museum of History

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Gail Dever

If you missed the launch of McCord Museum’s exhibit, Notman, Visionary Photographer, two years ago in Montreal, you will have a chance to see it at the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa from November 23 to April 14, 2019. … Continue reading →

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Desjardins Group donates $150,000 for exhibit on capital punishment in Quebec City’s former jail

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Gail Dever

President and CEO Guy Cormier of Desjardins Group announced last Thursday his financial cooperative group will donate $150,000 the the Morrin Centre, an English language cultural centre in Quebec City, to “build an immersive exhibit on the history of capital … Continue reading →

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Quebec Genealogical eSociety offers free access to PRDH and BMS2000 and a webinar for the province’s National Genealogy Week

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Gail Dever

Quebec’s National Genealogy Week — Semaine nationale de la généalogie — kicked off yesterday and the Quebec Genealogical eSociety is offering what is probably the best deal. The e-society will throw open its virtual doors to the Members Only section … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — November 17, 2018

Posted on November 17, 2018 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs The Intentionally Forgotten by Colleen Murray on Colleen Murray. Resources: Monographs and Surveys of Franco-American History by Patrick Lacroix on Query the Past. The New York Times will Digitize its Photo Archive … Continue reading →

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