Newspapers are a favourite resource for family historians. Researchers can find invaluable leads in birth, marriage and death notices, social columns, reports on crime and court proceedings, and business advertisements. And increasingly, newspapers are being digitized and made available online. Digital versions of historical issues of two major Toronto dailies, the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, can be accessed free of charge through the public library system and various academic institutions. But […]
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The winter semester of Toronto Branch courses gets underway in January 2019, with a focus on hands-on learning! On Tuesday evenings in January, join instructor Marian Press for Using Digital Newspapers On-line for Genealogy, a three-week course at the Toronto Reference Library on how to find and make the most of newspapers for family history research. The emphasis will be on historical newspapers from North America, the UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. And […]
Newspapers can be a goldmine for family history researchers. Nuggets of information can be gleaned from birth, marriage and death notices, from lists of ship arrivals, from reports on crime, accidents and court proceedings, and even from local ads. What you may not know is that Toronto researchers are particularly fortunate when it comes to newspapers. Not only are two of our major papers–the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail–digitized, but they can be accessed free of charge […]
From all of us at Toronto Branch to all of you… happy new year! 2015 is shaping up to be another busy year for Toronto Branch – in just a few weeks, our educational programs will start up again. On Saturday 21 February, we have two different events planned. Sign up for a half-day course called Publish Before You Perish – instructor Nancy Conn will walk you through the steps to getting your family […]