Gary Schroder to present four hours of lectures on Quebec records
Posted by conference on November 11, 2009 under Blog: New Postings, Canadian Records, Essentials Stream, Speakers and Program | 
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Gary Schroder will present extended lectures on Quebec family history at Conference 2010.
Conference 2009 had barely ended when a member of Toronto Branch Council exclaimed at a meeting that we had to have Gary Schroder return to Conference 2010—and we had to give him plenty of time to talk about Quebec records. Several weeks later, the evaluations from Conference 2009 arrived and they confirmed Gary as one of the highest rated speakers.
So we are thrilled that Gary will be delivering four hours of lectures at the Ontario Genealogical Society Conference 2010, two 2-hour workshops on Friday morning and afternoon.
Instead of inviting him as a speaker, we should have probably asked him to run the Conference. As President of the Quebec Family History Society since 1995, Gary has chaired three highly regarded, international Roots Conferences at McGill University in Montreal. And he’s now planning Roots 2011, which will be held in June of that year.
Even though he’s best known in Ontario for speaking about Quebec records, Gary speaks elsewhere on a wide variety of family history topics, including Canadian, English and Irish research and British military resources. He notes that his first known ancestor to set foot in Canada was his great-great-great-grandfather Cornelius Flynn, who arrived in the port of Quebec in 1805. Cornelius Flynn (1787-1861) served in the Royal Navy for over twenty years and was wounded during the Battle of Trafalgar.
Gary has taught family history courses at both McGill and Champlain College in Montreal and lectured right across North America. He was a speaker at the 2001 International Conference on Irish Family History held at Trinity College, Dublin. He is currently a member of the Special Advisory Board of Library and Archives Canada. He is the editor of various published works and is a frequent guest on Canadian radio and television answering a wide variety of genealogical questions and promoting the educational value of family history research.
Gary’s lectures at Conference 2010 will be of interest to all those with Quebec ancestry, regardless of language or faith.