Family historians may want to look at school records for various reasons—to research an ancestor who was a teacher, to find out where an ancestor went to school and for how long, or to get a taste of what an ancestor was learning and what his or her school days were really like. The good news is that there are many different collections to explore—yearbooks, admission registers, teacher and student lists, school archives and histories, […]
Monthly Archives: October 2015
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Our October Toronto Branch meeting will take place on Monday 26 October starting at 7:30 pm at the Burgundy Room, North York Memorial Hall, 5110 Yonge Street in Toronto (convenient access from the North York Centre subway station). If you are thinking of putting your family information online for others to find, there are now many more ways of doing so than in the early years of the web. At our October meeting, our […]
We’re happy to announce our winter 2016 educational season at Toronto Branch—guaranteed to keep you learning through those chilly months ahead… On Tuesday afternoons in February 2016, we’re offering A Series on Social History, with four sessions aimed at enriching your understanding of how your ancestors lived. Our four expert speakers—Ingrid Mida, Sarah B. Hood, Sheila Knox and Marianne Fedunkiw—will help you discover what it meant when people became sick or injured in 19th-century Canada, what […]