The first Toronto Branch meeting after the summer break took place on Monday September 23. We were delighted to launch the fall season with an information-packed presentation by lawyer, journalist and genealogist Drew von Hasselbach titled Money Talks: Translating Value Over Time. In 1837, Drew’s great-great-granduncle bought a property in Ontario for 17 pounds and 10 shillings. But was it a good deal? How much would he have paid in today’s money? Drew showed […]
Are you starting to get that back-to-school itch? Fall learning at Toronto Branch starts mid-September with our very popular online course on Understanding Ontario Land Registry Records. Over three Thursday evenings via Zoom from September 12 to 26, instructor Jane MacNamara will show you the wealth of valuable genealogical information you can uncover if you add land registry records to your research. Learn how land is divided and identified in Ontario both historically and […]
Toronto Branch presented the thirteenth annual Toronto History Lecture via Zoom on Tuesday August 6, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. EDT. This year’s speaker was acclaimed novelist and non-fiction writer Kristen den Hartog. Her newest book, The Roosting Box: Rebuilding the Body After the First World War, is now longlisted for the 2024 Toronto Book Awards, 50th Anniversary Edition. And it’s available for purchase in the Toronto Branch eShop too! In the 2024 Lecture, we […]
The Ontario Genealogical Society’s Conference 2024 may be over, but the value-packed Conference Virtual Bundle and recorded stream of the pre-Conference Artificial Intelligence and Genealogy Day are both still yours to explore for a few more weeks! You won’t want to miss out on the wealth of family history content the Conference team has lined up for your summer viewing pleasure. The Virtual Bundle is entirely free if you were a Conference registrant, and […]