Registration is now open for the next semester of Toronto Branch educational activities, beginning in September 2018. In store this fall: four courses, two workshops and one tour, with learning opportunities for both new and seasoned family historians. On Thursday afternoons in September, join instructor Carol Nichols for Using Ancestry.ca Library Edition & FamilySearch.org, a hands-on three-week course on how to get started with two of the largest free databases of Canadian and international […]
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We’re pleased to share some very welcome news for genealogy researchers in Toronto, thanks to an agreement between the non-profit family history organization FamilySearch and the Toronto Public Library. FamilySearch, which has a vast collection of billions of genealogical records, is in the process of digitizing all of its microfilms and publishing the digital versions online. About 1.5 billion images have been digitized to date, and many of those are now freely available on […]
Toronto Branch marked a milestone this fall with the completion of a major cemetery indexing project in partnership with FamilySearch Indexing. The last entry to be indexed in thousands of burial register pages from the “Toronto Trust Cemeteries” – as the “Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries” was known prior to 1990 – was officially submitted on 27 September 2013. A roster of dedicated volunteers worked for four years to make this happen – indexing […]