If you haven’t used Toronto assessment records in your research, you’re missing a great source to fill in the 10-year gaps between census. And now that FamilySearch.org has digitized the 19th-century assessment rolls for today’s Toronto—we can use them from home to find out more about our occupier or landholder ancestors and their communities. This session will help you figure out the wards and other divisions needed to locate a household, and to understand what you’ve found. We’ll go beyond the flawed indexing with maps, directories and other tools. FamilySearch holdings include 19th-century records from the pre-amalgamation municipalities of Toronto, Brockton, East Toronto, Etobicoke, North Toronto, Parkdale, Scarborough, West Toronto Junction, Weston, York Township (post 1881), and Yorkville.
Speaker Jane E. MacNamara is the author of Inheritance in Ontario: Wills and other Records for Family Historians (OGS/Dundurn) and writes about genealogy at wherethestorytakesme.ca. A longtime member of OGS, Jane lectures about research methodology, Ontario, and English family history to genealogical and historical groups throughout southern Ontario. She teaches courses for the OGS Toronto Branch, most notably hands-on courses about Ontario records.
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