April’s Toronto Branch meeting took place on Monday, April 22. A good crowd joined us in person at Lansing United Church at 49 Bogert Ave in north Toronto, near the Sheppard subway station, and many more watched the presentation live online via Zoom. Our featured speaker Allison Lau and her team demonstrated how Ancestry.com is using technology to help decipher handwriting and make it easier for researchers to find their ancestors—or the cheerful characters […]
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The first Toronto Branch meeting of 2020 will take place on Monday 27 January starting at 7:30 p.m. at Lansing United Church in North York. We’re kicking off the new year with a special panel presentation titled We all have a story to tell! Three of our panelists are Branch members who have published their family stories, all in different ways. Marian Press has created a traditional family history book, Sheelagh Hysenaj publishes genealogy […]
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 […]
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 […]