789 Yonge St
Toronto, ON M4W 2G8
Canada
This fast-paced one-day course introduces some of the types of records and techniques needed for researching your family tree. It highlights vital records (civil and church), census records and probates (wills), showing how to extract and evaluate data. Secondary sources are touched on in the course and examples are shown of how to use online newspaper indexes as finding aids and how to use newspaper accounts of events to flesh out other data. There will be some discussion of data available in databases on FamilySearch and Ancestry and techniques to access it effectively. The emphasis is on putting pieces of data together to make genealogical conclusions.
This course is co-sponsored with the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at the Toronto Reference Library.
Course Instructor: Linda Reid
Linda Reid is a retired librarian who lives in Toronto and has been researching her British roots for 35 years. Linda is active in the Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society and is facilitator of the Advanced Genetic Genealogy SIG. She has volunteered in the Toronto Family History Centre (of the LDS Church) for many years. She writes occasionally for the Toronto Tree. Linda has taught courses for Toronto Branch OGS and has spoken to meetings, conferences and workshops throughout Ontario.
HOW TO GET TO THE COURSE LOCATION
The Toronto Reference Library building is on the east side of Yonge Street, one block north of Bloor Street.
By public transit:
The closest TTC subway station is Bloor/Yonge.
Driving to the Library is not recommended. Parking in the immediate area is extremely limited.
Accessibility:
The Toronto Reference Library building is wheelchair accessible. For more information about our policies on accessibility, visit our policies page.
For assistance with a specific accommodation request, please send an email message to courses@torontofamilyhistory.org.