Monthly Archives: February 2022

Online lecture: ‘Origins of the French-Canadian Exodus, 1826-1861’

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Gail Dever

Patrick Lacroix, Director of Acadian Archives at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, will give a talk on early French-Canadian migrations to the United States for the Rhode Island Historical Society’s Museum of Work and Culture on Sunday, March … Continue reading →

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Ontario Ancestors’ webinars this week — Surrogate court records, Black pioneer settlements, Scottish weavers, researching English records from a distance, and Polish ancestry

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Gail Dever

Four branches and one special interest group at Ontario Ancestors will host a free virtual presentation that is open to the public. All times are in Eastern time. Monday, February 21 — 7:00 p.m. — Sudbury District BranchNorthern Ontario Surrogate … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — February 19, 2022

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsOntario Crown Land RG 1 C-I-1, C-I-2, C-I-3 Collections on FamilySearch by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. 1950 US Census Project: FAN Club by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family … Continue reading →

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Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy passes away

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Gail Dever

The genealogy world has lost a great one. Lorine McGinnis Schulze, one of North America’s greatest and most generous genealogists, passed away yesterday in Ontario. It was unexpected. Her husband, Brian L. Massey, shared the sad and shocking news on … Continue reading →

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Free access to Newspapers.com

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Gail Dever

Free access to to more than 20,000 newspapers in the Newspapers.com collection is available until Monday, February 21, 11:59 Mountain time. Registration is required through this link. Some people had issues accessing the free promotion, but it seems that those … Continue reading →

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Kenneth Bagnell, author of books on British Home Children and Italian immigration to Canada, passes away

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Gail Dever

Journalist, author, and retired United Church of Canada minister Kenneth Bagnell died Tuesday at the age of 87 in Toronto.  Reverend Bagnell was the author of The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada, a story of children brought … Continue reading →

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Free ‘Intro to Genealogy’ online course from MyHeritage

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Gail Dever

MyHeritage’s free Introduction to Genealogy online course, launched yesterday, focuses on three main areas: family trees, historical records and research, and DNA testing. Each section is divided into chapters and lessons that cover a range of topics for conducting family … Continue reading →

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Online books on Franco-American history

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Gail Dever

Patrick Lacroix, director of the Acadian Archives at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, has written a blog post, Free Online Books on Franco-American History, about books on French-Canadian migrations and Franco-American communities. It’s sure to interest many genealogists. 

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FamilySearch adds another 1.3 million records to Ontario Tax Assessment Rolls, 1834-1899

Posted on February 17, 2022 by Gail Dever

Take a look at FamilySearch’s Ontario Tax Assessment Rolls, 1834-1899 collection, and you’ll see that the folks there have been going like gangbusters. Since the beginning of February, FamilySearch has added more than 1.3 million records to this collection for … Continue reading →

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Peter Moogk talks about colonists in New France and their Indigenous neighbours in presentation on YouTube

Posted on February 16, 2022 by Gail Dever

Historian and Professor Emeritus of the University of British Columbia Peter Moogk says the colonists in New France and their Indigenous neighbours lived much more harmoniously together than their counterparts in the British North American colonies. This is a major … Continue reading →

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