The Ontario Genealogical Society's Annual Conference 2009 will be at Sheridan College in Oakville from May 29-31.
P. O. Box 174 — Whitby, Ontario — L1N·5S1
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Breaking Down Brick Walls - This Round Robin session allows the experts and non-experts to relate personal break-through experiences in the realm of genealogy. Bring questions. Get answers.
Also, Ken Nicholls will present some of the material he has collected about one room school houses during his recent travels through Durham's northern rural areas (including stories and photos).
Free Introduction to Genealogy workshops at local libraries - see the calendar page.
Stephen Wood will staff the Branch Office twice per month. Please see the Our Office page for times and dates.
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The September Meeting was: Finding your Scottish Ancestors with Stephen Wood - an in-depth presentaion and discussion exploring various research methods for Scottish ancestors. [Stephen has made his Scotland resources available here.]
In addition, Nicole Patterson (Genealogy and Local History Librarian) , described the resources for genealogy, both in-house and on-line, available at the Oshawa Public Libraries.
npatterson@oshawalibrary.on.ca
905-579-6111 ext 5243
The June Meeting featured Halvor Moorshead - "The Internet 2008"
And how it can be best used to research genealogy
Mr. Moorshead recently retired as editor and publisher of Family Chronicle, History Magazine, Internet Genealogy, and Discovering Family History (new -with free first edition download). He was also a featured speaker at the OGS Wired Genealogy Conference (May 30 - June 1) in London, Ontario.
Two of his books: Dating Old Photographs 1840 - 1929 and More Dating Old Photographs, are available from Family Chronicle Magazine (above) or Amazon.com.
Also, a Dan Delong presented a short mini-talk about RSS Feed Readers - i.e.; methods to automatically receive blog postings. A help page is available on this site at: RSS Feed Readers: How to.
The May Meeting featured...
Larry Doble - Famous Events and People of Brock Township. Those interested in local history, or whose family was originally from Brock Township, should not miss this. Larry has information on most of the early settlers, compiled into booklets containing 15 family histories and sourced from a database of 48,000 names. [School punishments - for the curious]
http://www.brockhistoricalsocieties.ca/
Also: "What if the Web Site Doesn't Speak English?" - 15 minute mini-talk by Guy Lafontaine.
Finding your English Ancestors - Our panel described their experiences doing research in England, and answered audience questions. Members of the panel shared many years of genealogical experience in this area. [Sample link from MyTrees.com]
March meeting was...
Brian Winter, Whitby Archivist, brought out more letters written by Whitby pioneers to their families back home in the old country. These letters reveal much about local history - its hardships, development, customs, and individual personalities. Some are funny, some are sad, but all are very interesting. Brian has authored books and numerous magazine and newspaper articles during his long career in Whitby.
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Anne Delong demonstrated the techniques she uses when researching with the aid of "Obituary Daily Times".
