April showers bring… May shovels? As soon as the air begins to warm up, you can be sure that a dedicated band of Toronto Branch volunteers will be back at work again – uncovering and transcribing gravestones! Our cemetery crew can usually be found at St James Cemetery, on Parliament Street just south of Bloor at the edge of the Don River Valley, on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings – outfitted with gardening gloves, […]
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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 […]