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Toronto Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society

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Time flies! The annual Conference of our parent organization, the Ontario Genealogical Society, is now just days away! Conference 2014 is being hosted by the Niagara Peninsula Branch of OGS, and is taking place at Brock University in St. Catharines from May 1 to 4. This year’s theme is “Genealogy Without Borders” — in recognition of the way the Internet and social media are making it easier for family history researchers to connect to resources […]

See you at OGS Conference?

April Meeting

The April 2014 meeting of Toronto Branch will take place on Monday 28 April beginning at 7:30 in the evening at the Burgundy Room, North York Memorial Hall, 5110 Yonge Street in Toronto (convenient access from the North York subway station). Our featured speaker will be Canada’s “Word Lady”, Katherine Barber, on “Where There’s a Will There’s a Word“. A Canadian lexicographer, and former Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Canadian Dictionary, she will share her expertise […]

April Meeting

Call for Speakers

Toronto Branch has issued a Call for Speakers to take part in a full-day workshop for family historians on the social, economic and cultural effects of England’s Industrial Revolutions. The workshop will take place on Saturday 1 November 2014. Potential speakers—professional genealogists, historians, family historians, librarians and archivists—are invited to submit proposals for presentations related to Industrial England, particularly during the period from 1750 to 1870. Possible topics could include migration to the cities, changes in occupations, effects of […]

Call for Speakers

Spring Courses Open

What better time than spring to start something new! Toronto Branch is pleased to announce that we will be offering a full-day workshop and a three-week course in June of 2014 to help you gain new family history skills… Our spring learning season will begin this year with a Saturday workshop on Family Tree Maker – if you use or are thinking of using FTM to record your family history research, don’t miss this chance […]

Spring Courses Open

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Related organizations

  • Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto
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Toronto Branch Meetings

Jun
5
Mon
7:00 pm Annual General Meeting
Annual General Meeting
Jun 5 @ 7:00 pm
TORONTO BRANCH OGS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Access to the meeting is limited to current Toronto Branch members. If you are a member, please refer to the AGM package you have received either by email about[...]
Jun
26
Mon
7:30 pm Researching my scientist grandfa...
Researching my scientist grandfa...
Jun 26 @ 7:30 pm
Researching my scientist grandfather's family history @ Attend in person or register for online webinar | Toronto | Ontario | Canada
The Ancestry of Dr. W.S. Kindraczuk (1882-1969): Research in Ukrainian, Polish, German, and Austrian records This presentation is based on the genealogical chapter of the speaker’s biographical book about her maternal grandfather: Dr.W.S. Kindraczuk, Forgotten[...]
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Courses starting and Workshops

Jun
8
Thu
7:30 pm From Cornwall to Ontario in the ...
From Cornwall to Ontario in the ...
Jun 8 @ 7:30 pm – Jun 15 @ 7:30 pm
From Cornwall to Ontario in the 19th Century @ TWO-PART ONLINE SERIES
During the first half of the 19th century thousands of people left their homes in Cornwall. Many of this Cornish diaspora came to Canada and a significant number settled in Ontario north of present-day Oshawa.[...]
Aug
8
Tue
7:30 pm The Toronto History Lecture
The Toronto History Lecture
Aug 8 @ 7:30 pm
The Toronto History Lecture @ ONLINE LECTURE
THE 2023 TORONTO HISTORY LECTURE Join us for the 12th Toronto History Lecture. This year’s lecture will be: The Tragic Fate of Huron Elliott: A Forgotten Indigenous Worker on Toronto’s Water Tunnel Project Speaker: Eric Sehr[...]
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