• Next Meeting [Location/Time] — and [Future Speakers]•

Tuesday, September 2

Finding your Scottish Ancestors (Stephe Wood) - a presentaion and discussion exploring various research methods for Scottish ancestors, similar to January's research for Ireland. Anyone who is familiar with such research may join the fun. To do so, contact Joyce Lintner.

In addition, Nicole Patterson, local history librarian at the Oshawa Library, will give a short presentation about resources for genealogy..

We are now on Summer Break! However, Stephen Wood will staff the Branch Office twice per month throughout the summer. Please see the Our Office page for times and dates.

Scroll down the Our Office page to see photographic directions to the office.

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.

April meeting was...

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]