Events

In keeping with our November, last-meeting-of-the-year tradition, ten Toronto Branch members will be sharing “great moments” in their family history research in a series of short, inspiring and frequently humorous presentations. We look forward to this meeting all year. It should be a blockbuster of an evening! Here are the speakers and topics: Dawn Kelly: Edward Francis Kelly and the Champagne of Ginger Ales Paul Jones: A Christmas Surprise Melanie Parker: Thomas Urquhart, Former[...]

Dr. Darryl Leroux will discuss findings from his book Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity (University of Manitoba Press, 2019) that will be of particular interest to genealogists. An expert on French-Canadian genealogy, Dr. Leroux will focus on the genealogical mechanics that are leading an increasing number of white French-Canadians to identify as Indigenous. What he calls “practices of descent” explain how one must do something with certain ancestors to justify one’s nascent[...]