Best wishes for a happy New Year from all of us at Toronto Branch. Welcome to new members and a special thank-you to all returning members! We’ve got a lot in store for you in 2025. Toronto Branch holds regular meetings open to all, normally on the fourth Monday of each month, featuring valuable presentations. Our first meeting of the year will take place online on January 27, with tips from Michael Nettleton on […]
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The Toronto Branch meeting took place on Monday November 25. This was our last monthly meeting for 2024 and, in keeping with our long-standing end-of-year tradition, it was also a celebration of our members’ Great Moments in Genealogy. Eight Branch members surprised and inspired us with their presentations on milestones and minefields in their own family history journeys: Bev MacCulloch—The ancestor in Box #3 Bonnie Bell—A man from Deeside, a 30-year search to account […]
April’s Toronto Branch meeting took place on Monday, April 22. A good crowd joined us in person at Lansing United Church at 49 Bogert Ave in north Toronto, near the Sheppard subway station, and many more watched the presentation live online via Zoom. Our featured speaker Allison Lau and her team demonstrated how Ancestry.com is using technology to help decipher handwriting and make it easier for researchers to find their ancestors—or the cheerful characters […]
The first Toronto Branch meeting of 2020 will take place on Monday 27 January starting at 7:30 p.m. at Lansing United Church in North York. We’re kicking off the new year with a special panel presentation titled We all have a story to tell! Three of our panelists are Branch members who have published their family stories, all in different ways. Marian Press has created a traditional family history book, Sheelagh Hysenaj publishes genealogy […]