After a two-year hiatus, our Genealogy Summer Camp will be back on in 2018… Genealogy Summer Camp is an intensive five-day program for family historians with Ontario roots, coordinated by longtime Branch member Jane E. MacNamara. Our campers are on the move throughout the week, travelling to different libraries and archives. Each day starts with a tour or tutorial, and plenty of time is built in for individual campers to focus on their own […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
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The winter semester of Toronto Branch educational activities begins in January 2018 and we have four courses for you to choose from in the new year. On either Wednesday mornings or Saturday mornings* in January, join Linda Reid for Introduction to Genetic Genealogy, a three-week course for genealogists who wish to confirm and expand their family trees with genetic evidence, particularly through Family Tree DNA tests. Marian Press will survey and explain the many […]
Our next Toronto Branch meeting — and the last of 2017 — will take place on Monday 27 November starting at 7:30 pm at Eglinton St George’s United Church at 35 Lytton Blvd in mid-Toronto (in the Sanctuary). In keeping with Branch tradition, we’ll be marking the close of the year with a celebration of our own Great Moments in Genealogy. Ten Branch members will each share one “great moment” in their family history research. […]
Humberside Collegiate Institute, near Toronto’s High Park, is the latest institution to be added to our searchable For King and Country database of war memorials in the city’s schools. It has been 125 years since Humberside—or the Toronto Junction High School, as it was then known—first opened its doors in 1892. Since then, the school sometimes called the “castle on the hill” has expanded, undergone extensive renovations, and developed a reputation for music and […]