Wow! More than 250 people attended our Branch meeting on March 23—which took place entirely online for the very first time. If you weren’t able to join our meeting live, you can still watch our two presentations—by Jane MacNamara on Records of Migration and Settlement at the Archives of Ontario, and Michael Nettleton on What Happened to Dorothy? The video recording of our meeting is now posted on our Webinars page for you to […]
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Our next Toronto Branch meeting will be on Monday, March 23 starting at 7:30 pm, and, for the first time, it will take place entirely online. In keeping with public health recommendations for social distancing to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we will not be meeting in person. Instead, we’ll be meeting in a safe virtual environment via webinar. And our featured presentation will be, ironically, quite timely. As countries around the […]
Our last Toronto Branch meeting before the summer break will take place on Monday, June 24 starting at 7:30 p.m. at Lansing United Church in North York. Stephen Young has been an employee of FamilySearch for more than three decades. He also has a strong Ontario connection. His ancestors immigrated to the Toronto area from England in the 1830s and were early pioneers in Perth and Huron Counties. At our June meeting, Stephen will share […]
The first of nine Toronto Branch meetings in 2019 will take place on Monday January 28 at Lansing United Church in North York beginning at 7:30 p.m. A hundred years ago, the Spanish Flu took the lives of 50,000 Canadians in just over 18 months, and more than 50 million people worldwide. One in six Canadian households was hit by the Flu. Yet their stories are little known. Please join us for The Spanish Flu, […]