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 […]
The next Toronto Branch meeting of 2014 will take place on Monday 24 March 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 own Marian Press will be our featured speaker. Although academic institutions may not be the first places family historians think of when planning a research trip, they are in fact leading the […]
2014 is a milestone year for family history in Ontario! It was three decades ago that Genealogy in Ontario: Searching the Records, written by long-time Toronto Branch member Brenda Dougall Merriman, first rolled off the presses. Since then, it has been revised several times, and has become an indispensable first-stop reference for anyone researching Ontario roots. Genealogy in Ontario is a comprehensive guide to original Ontario source materials and where to find them: vital […]
Toronto Branch has issued a Call for Proposals for the fourth annual Toronto History Lecture, to be held on Wednesday, 6 August 2014, at the City of Toronto Archives. The Toronto History Lecture was inaugurated in 2011 in memory of well-known local and family historian Paul McGrath and his love for telling people about Toronto and its past. It is free to attend and open to the public. Proposals are welcome from potential speakers […]