Learn from Ancestry Extra webinars twice a week in April and May

Ancestry Canada is offering a free webinar series, called Ancestry Extra, throughout April and May on its social media channels.

Every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time and Thursday at noon Eastern time on Ancestry’s Facebook page, family history experts from Canada and beyond, will hold sessions filled with useful tips and tricks.

Ontario ancestors — Tuesday, April 14
Today, Ancestry Canada’s Lesley Anderson and Ontario Ancestors President Steve Fulton UE, will hold a video conversation on how and where to find Ontario ancestors.

Mr. Fulton will talk about the work the society does and the tools they have to support genealogy research. Ms. Anderson will share her tips on navigating the Ontario records available on Ancestry. They will both be answering any questions you have about Ontario family history research from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Eastern time.

Loyalist roots — Thursday, April 16
On Thursday, April 16, at noon Eastern time, Ms. Anderson will talk about Uncovering Your Loyalist Roots.

Patriots to some, and traitors to others, more than 70,000 Loyalists fled the American colonies after the War of Independence, settling in modern day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Ontario. Ms. Anderson will explore key Ancestry Loyalist collections, and share her tips and tricks for uncovering your family connections to this iconic group of Canadian settlers.

Recorded sessions
The first three episodes of Ancestry Extra have been recorded and are already available on Ancestry Canada’s Facebook page. (Look for Videos in the left margin on the Facebook page.)

Ms. Anderson kicked off the webinar series with Spring Cleaning Your Family Tree. She shared her top tips for making the most out of your family tree on Ancestry and answered questions from the audience in the comments below the video.  

Joe Buggy spoke on Researching Your Irish Ancestors, and military expert Simon Pearce shared tips and key resources in Discovering Your Ancestor’s WWI Story.

While Ancestry continues to work on the calendar of upcoming episodes, the list below provides an idea of the types of topics they’ll cover:

• Genealogy 101
• Researching Newspapers
• The Census Project
• Chinese-Canadian Genealogy
• French Canadian Genealogy: Navigating the Drouin Collection