Our Toronto Branch meeting took place on Monday, June 24. It was recorded and the presentations are now available for viewing by clicking this link. The recordings will be available until about September 24. Jane E. MacNamara showed us how and why to explore Ontario’s Records of Inheritance on Family Search, with a focus on York County. Estate files are rich sources for finding family connections and revealing our ancestors’ social and financial circumstances. And, […]
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Toronto Branch is offering a three-week hands-on course in 19th-century Ontario criminal justice records this fall at the Archives of Ontario (three Thursdays 4–7, beginning September 26). If your ancestors weren’t criminals, why take the course? Instructor Janice Nickerson has supplied a few sample cases. #1. The Case of the Stolen Cloth On Wednesday morning, September 6th, 1837, an elderly woman named Elizabeth Mitchell was tried for larceny before the Toronto Mayor’s Court. Mayor […]