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 […]
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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 […]
Our Toronto Branch meeting took place on Monday, June 24. It was recorded and the presentations are now available for viewing by clicking this link. The recordings will be available until about September 24. Jane E. MacNamara showed us how and why to explore Ontario’s Records of Inheritance on Family Search, with a focus on York County. Estate files are rich sources for finding family connections and revealing our ancestors’ social and financial circumstances. And, […]
Our May Toronto Branch meeting took place on Monday, May 27. The meeting featured a presentation by Branch Chair Carol Ufford on her third great uncle William Brass, who was charged in 1837 with raping a young girl. His defense attorney was none other than a young John A. Macdonald, who would go on to be the first prime minister of Canada. In The Trial of William Brass, Carol drew on a range of […]