It’s that time of year again—our November meeting was devoted to Great Moments in Genealogy! On Monday November 27, eight Branch members will regaled us with a series of short and inspiring presentations on trials, tribulations and treasure in family history. Here’s the list of this year’s speakers and topics: Beth Adams—It’s a small world after all Ann Brown—Together in Toronto Dawn Kelly—Joah Earnshaw—Death in a Yorkshire coal mine Elayne Lockhart—Think your family history […]
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The next Toronto Branch meeting will take place on Monday, October 23 at Lansing United Church at 49 Bogert Ave. in north Toronto, near the Sheppard subway station. If you’re joining us in person, please plan to come at 7:00 p.m. for a chance to “swap and socialize” before the meeting formally begins. Bring your own (non-alcoholic) beverage and any genealogy or local history books that you’d like to re-home, and we’ll provide the […]
The first Toronto Branch meeting of the fall 2023 season took place on the evening of Monday, September 25, with a special in-person-only “opening act”! We met at Lansing United Church at 49 Bogert Ave in north Toronto, near the Sheppard subway station, starting a little earlier than usual at 7:00 p.m., and enjoyed an hour of “show-and-tell” with Branch members displaying their family history projects. Our main presentation began at 8:00 p.m. live […]
Our June Toronto Branch meeting will took place on Monday June 26. York University Professor Romana M. Bahry spoke on The Ancestry of Dr. W.S. Kindraczuk (1882-1969): Research in Ukrainian, Polish, German, and Austrian records. Dr. Bahry introduced us to her maternal grandfather, a pioneering chemist, and told us about the genealogical resources she drew on both in Toronto and in several Eastern European countries to write his biography. We began the evening with […]