Registration is now open for the winter semester of Toronto Branch courses, beginning in the new year. In January and February 2020, we’re offering back-to-back courses on land records—a rich source of information about ancestors who settled in Ontario. Both courses will be led by instructor Jane MacNamara and held at the Archives of Ontario on Thursday afternoons. Participants will work in small groups following case histories through the records. The first course, Hands-On […]
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Registration is now open for the next semester of Toronto Branch learning, beginning in September 2019. Coming up this fall: four courses, two workshops and a tour, guaranteed to strengthen your family history skills. On the evening of Tuesday September 24, soak up insider tips on how to make the most of your library research. Join us at the Toronto Reference Library for Searching Toronto Public Library Catalog for Genealogy Sources. Janice Nickerson will […]
The winter semester of Toronto Branch courses gets underway in January 2019, with a focus on hands-on learning! On Tuesday evenings in January, join instructor Marian Press for Using Digital Newspapers On-line for Genealogy, a three-week course at the Toronto Reference Library on how to find and make the most of newspapers for family history research. The emphasis will be on historical newspapers from North America, the UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. And […]
The spring 2018 semester of Toronto Branch learning activities will be here before you know it. Registration is now open for a practical hands-on course on making technology work for you in your family history research, as well as two key repository tours — all at the Toronto Reference Library beginning in April. Over four evening sessions between May 3 and June 4, instructor Carol Nichols will present Using Your iPad & iPhone for […]