Monthly Archives: March 2023

Free lecture series on Black history in Ontario from Toronto Branch OGS

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Gail Dever

The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society will host a free online series focused on Black history in Ontario on April 13, 20 and 27 at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time. All are welcome. Each of the three sessions will … Continue reading →

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Funding for Vimy Foundation’s youth leadership commemorative and educational initiatives

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Gail Dever

The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, yesterday announced funding of up to $241,000 for the Vimy Foundation over the next year to support their project, The Spirit of Vimy: Highlighting Youth Leadership and … Continue reading →

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Gathering and mapping the stories of ’60s Scoop survivors

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Gail Dever

Colleen Cardinal, a member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta and a survivor of the ’60s Scoop, has started to map out the stories of survivors. According to an article in Canada’s National Observer, Ms. Cardinal launched an online … Continue reading →

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Turmoil at some cemeteries in British Columbia

Posted on March 28, 2023 by Gail Dever

Burial plots have become a hot commodity in the greater Vancouver area where people are flipping burial plots the way some flip homes, according to several local media. CTV News reported, “One spot in a Burnaby cemetery is being sold … Continue reading →

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Ontario Ancestors virtual presentations — Writing your family history, a British Home Child, child workers in Scottish textile factories, 170 years of Simcoe County

Posted on March 27, 2023 by Gail Dever

Ontario Ancestors and its branches end the month of March with four online meetings, including two that are hybrid. The times are in Eastern time. Monday, March 27, 7:30 p.m. — Toronto BranchWriting Family History – Shaping Genealogy into Shareable … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — March 25, 2023

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsTop tips for researching Ukrainian and Russian resources on Genealogy Indexer by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family. Military Monday: WW2 POW personnel cards indexed at TNA by John … Continue reading →

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Online workshop — Writing ancestors’ profiles — Updated registration link

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Gail Dever

When this blog post was published on March 23, there was a technical hiccup with the registration link that caused some people to register as me. An updated link appears below, and it is the one you should use. Be … Continue reading →

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Toronto Archives adds an additional 18,000 digitized images to its online database

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Gail Dever

City of Toronto Archives earlier this month uploaded 17,984 new images to their database. If you haven’t checked out the collection, now may be the time to do so. One of the new online collections is Fonds 620 of photographer … Continue reading →

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Findmypast — New military records

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Gail Dever

Findmypast Friday has added three military collections this week. British Army, Local Armed Forces’ Enrolment Forms, Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 This brand-new collection includes over 60,000 enrolment forms for those who enlisted in the British Army in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War … Continue reading →

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Don’t open link in today’s blog post about an online writing workshop

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Gail Dever

Please don’t open the registration link in today’s blog post about Lynn Palermo’s workshop. There is a technical issue that is creating multiple confirmations in people’s email inbox. Lynn is trying to fix the problem. If there’s another way to … Continue reading →

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