Where there's a will there's a word (2014-04-28)

When: April 28, 2014 @ 7:30 pm – April 28, 2014 @ 9:30 pm

Where: Burgundy Room, North York Memorial Hall, 5120 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M2N 6L4, Canada

Speaker: Katherine Barber, Canada’s “Word Lady” Where there’s a will there’s a word The speaker, a Canadian lexicographer and former Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Canadian Dictionary, will discuss the origin and use of words necessary and relevant to family historians – especially those found in wills. Mini-presentation: Patricia Sheehan Who was that woman with King George VI—and what is she doing in the back of my grandmother’s photo album?

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Where there’s a will there’s a word

Genealogy Searching Forward: Back to the Future

When: January 27, 2014 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Where: Burgundy Room, North York Memorial Hall, 5120 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M2N 6L4, Canada

Speaker: Margaret Rintoul Genealogists usually focus on finding ancestors, but in every family there are both ancestors and descendants. Come and find out what happens from a lawyer’s perspective when genealogy meets estate law and the question is how to find the current heirs when a person has died. Mini-presentation: Valerie Watt 10% Non Parental Events: Fact or Fear?

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Genealogy Searching Forward: Back to the Future

Photograph of old buildings in city of Xi An

When: March 22, 2014 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Where: Burgundy Room, North York Memorial Community Hall, 5110 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M2N, Canada

A SPECIAL LECTURE, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2014 This special lecture will present people of Chinese heritage with an overview of how Chinese family history has been recorded over the centuries and what people living today need to know if they want to find information about their ancestors in China and elsewhere in the world. The lecture will be in Chinese with English explanations as needed. The one-hour lecture will be followed by a question[...]

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Search Your Chinese Roots

When: February 18, 2014 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Where: Meeting Room 1, North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M2N 6L4, Canada

A TWO-SESSION COURSE, TUESDAYS, FEBRUARY 18 AND 25 Do you have some old family photographs but don’t know when they were taken? Do you know some of the major fashion innovations in the 19th century that help in dating old photographs? If you want to learn more, this two-part lecture series will be of interest. This course is intended as a primer on the social history of dress seen in 19th century photographs from[...]

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