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Have you played the new Genealogy Whodunit Mystery Game?
Join Rick Voight and Patti Mordaewicz on Thursday, September 23rd at 7:00 pm
for a live webinar on using Vivid-Pix software and genealogy research skills to solve mysteries!
Click here to register!
What Happened to Great-Uncle George!
Those who successfully complete the challenge can enter to win great prizes, including a weekend in New York City, London or $1,000 USD, and photo gifts!
SOLVE THE MYSTERY!
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Using Pictures and Documents to Advance Your Research
Vivid-Pix and Ontario Ancestors are teaming up to demonstrate how to use RESTORE software and simple genealogy tools to help family historians advance their research!
Rick Voight of Vivid-Pix and Patti Mordasewicz of Ontario Ancestors will use the What Happened to Great-Uncle George game to illustrate how carefully reading documents and examining pictures can help genealogists verify family stories (or refute them!), and find new trails to explore in uncovering their ancestors’ lives.
The live demonstration will take place on Thursday, September 23rd at 7:00 pm using Zoom. Use this link to register, and show up early because there are only 100 spots available.
The game is available until September 30th, so you can put your new skills to work to be eligible to win prizes.
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 The BIFHSGO Conference Starts Tomorrow, September 19th!
Andrea Harding, BIFHSGO Conference Communications
There is still time to register for the 26th annual BIFHSGO family history conference. This exciting event features 14 distinguished international speakers, all experts in their own fields, featured in 15 presentations over 8 days for only $45! Visit the conference website for the most up to date information: bifhsgo2021.ca.
The themes of Irish records, female ancestors, and genetic genealogy will be integrated into a range of presentations, including newly available Irish records, finding female ancestors in archives, the Irish diaspora, DNA in Irish ancestors, researching marginalized women, Irish famine orphans in Canada, and much more. We look forward to welcoming you to this exciting conference.
As an added bonus BIFHSGO will be offering a 10% discount for the 2022 membership year to all renewing and new members during the week of the conference (19 – 26 September). You do not need to be registered for the conference to take advantage of this great offer. Join next week and save! www.bifhsgo.ca.
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Sudbury District Branch Presentation
Nancy Vaillancourt, Program Coordinator
Welcome to the start of the Sudbury District Branch 2021-2022 program year.
We hope everyone will join us for the September Branch presentation, Discovering Sudbury District. You'll learn about the resources available to make the most of your research for ancestors in this district.
Everyone is welcome to join us. Pre-registration is required at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOuprjkoG9cLGhyWfQpB2I1Bcetqrp6T
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Back to School with Our Digital World
Whether you're homeschooling, heading back to class or helping others with their research, ODW has school project resources for librarians, teachers and students of all ages...
 Our Newspaper collections include Ontario Community Newspapers and INK, representing every corner of the province – click here for a full list of regions covered.
With contributions from over 300 heritage organizations and partners, our Community Collections allow you to explore local history collections, built heritage and community contributions from the past and current day.
 For Local History, try the OurOntario.ca portal, with 2.5 million photos, documents, oral histories, paintings, postcards, exhibits, newspapers, scrapbooks and more!
Our Multicultural Ontario portal has curriculum resources as well as virtual exhibits to educate everyone on topics from diverse ethnic history to women’s history.
Education is a lifelong pursuit, so take yourself “back to school” with Our Digital World.
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 Call for Speakers: The Ontario Ancestors’ 2022 Webinar Series
Ontario Ancestors is currently accepting proposals for our monthly 2022 Webinar Series. Our live webinars take place the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm ET using the Zoom platform.
In addition, Ontario Ancestors is also looking for guest speakers who are interested in presenting for our new online quarterly mini-conference learning opportunities in 2022.
All submissions will be considered for both, unless otherwise indicated on the submission.
We invite proposals on a wide range of topics. The top subjects from our recent 2022 Webinar Topic Survey are:
- Ontario Land Records
- Immigration
- Genetic Genealogy
- Research in Ancestors' County of Origin
- Technology &Tools
- Comparison of Genealogy Websites
- Organization/Storage of Records
Selected speakers need to be prepared to provide Ontario and/or Canadian specific examples in their presentations. (Where applicable.) Speakers may submit up to 3 proposals for consideration. All submissions will be reviewed but only those who are chosen will be contacted. An honorarium is provided for webinar presentations.
Deadline for submissions is September 30, 2021 at 11:59 pm.
For more information, visit our website here, or contact webinar@ogs.on.ca. |
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Interested in a Genetic Genealogy Special Interest Group?
Ontario Ancestors
Heading into our annual membership campaign, we are looking at starting a Genetic Genealogy Special Interest Group. This proposal is based on feedback we received from our members over the last several years.
In order to make this happen, our Society By-laws indicate that we need to have the interest of a minimum of 25 people who would be willing to add the SIG to their Society membership when joining or renewing.
If this is something you would be interested in, please let us know by clicking the survey link and sharing your opinion! - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CC8LRC9
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Town of York Historical Society Fall Author Series
On Thursday, September 23rd at 7:00 pm join us online for the first evening in our fall series!
Mark Bourrie will speak about the research process for his book Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, which tells the extraordinary true story of the 17th-century figure, a man more trading partner than colonizer, a peddler of goods and not worldview—and with it offers a fresh perspective on the world in which he lived. Using Radisson’s journals, which are the best first-hand accounts of 17th century Canada, Bourrie will provide insight into the sources used to bring Radisson’s story to life.
Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson is perhaps best described, writes Mark Bourrie, as “an eager hustler with no known scruples.” Kidnapped by Mohawk warriors at the age of fifteen, Radisson assimilated and was adopted by a powerful family, only to escape to New York City after less than a year. After being recaptured, he defected from a raiding party to the Dutch and crossed the Atlantic to Holland—thus beginning a lifetime of seized opportunities and frustrated ambitions.
To learn more, or to purchase a ticket, click here.
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Huron County Branch Presentation
Deb McAuslan, Chair, Huron County Branch
Please join us on Wednesday, Oct 6th at 7:30 pm EDT for our presentation “Female Preachers of the Bible Christian Church" with presenter Jim Bowen.
Everyone is welcome! You can register for this Zoom webinar here.
Jim’s focus has been on the origins and history of the 19th century evangelical Methodist sect, the Bible Christian Connexion, with a specific interest in the stories of the female itinerant preachers. This research path has led him to Huron County, as he has explored the lives of his maternal ancestors.
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What’s New at The Big 4?
 MyHeritage is pleased to announce the publication of a massive new collection of 982 million names, extracted from our U.S. and Canadian historical newspaper collections.
Historical newspapers are some of the most important sources for genealogical information because they are very rich in detail. Newspapers can often add color and personality to the dry facts that are often the output of other genealogical sources such as census records.
The collection is an index of names that were extracted from existing free-text U.S. and Canadian newspaper collections on MyHeritage. The free text in these collections was generated from the scanned images of newspapers using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, which converts images into text.
To learn more about this latest addition, read the blog here.
Fridays in September are special! Check out Webtember at Legacy Family Tree webinars.
 Do you have Caribbean connections? We’ve just released thousands of new records from Turks & Caicos, exclusive to Findmypast. They include over 16,900 births and baptisms, over 4,800 marriage and over 6,400 deaths and burials, ranging in dates from 1992 to 1947.
New papers from the UK Capital this week include Chelsea & Pimlico Advertiser, East London Advertiser, Kingsland Times and General Advertiser, West London Times and Westminster Times. There are also updates to ten other publications. To see the complete list, visit our post here.
 Ancestry announced changes to its Executive suite this week, with appointments of former Amazon and Facebook executives. Brian Donnelly, formerly with Amazon, has been named Senior Vice-President and General Manager of Ancestry DNA, and Ashish Nayyar, formerly with Facebook, has been appointed Chief Data Officer. There was a third move – appointing Heather Friedland to the role of Chief Product Officer. You can read the full press announcement here.
Ancestry’s blog post this week announces the return of the Ancestry-sponsored Roots Less Travelled show on NBC Saturday mornings. Read the post here.
Ancestry’s Recently Added and Updated Collections list this week includes updates to Find a Grave indexes for Canada, Norway, Germany, Mexico, U.S., Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, Italy, and Brazil, as well as globally for Burials at Sea. There are also updated collections for Illinois County Marriage Registers and Government Gazettes for New South Wales in Australia.
 FamilySearch added 2.6 million parish and civil registrations from France,1.6 million Poor Law records from Westminster, Middlesex, England, and parish records from Middlesex, England, as well as cemetery records from Argentina and more Catholic Church records from Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, plus Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
You can find the complete list of this week’s additions here.
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Nipissing District Branch Digitized Newspapers Indexed!
Ann Smith, Communications/Membership, Nipissing Branch
Well, we have done it! After a lot of work by our Nipissing Branch volunteers over the years, we have completed and posted the combined Birth, Marriage & Death Indexes for our digitized newspapers in our Nipissing Branch Members Only site. The index covers the Cobalt Daily Nugget, the North Bay Daily Nugget and the North Bay Nugget newspapers from January 23, 1909 to March 22, 1930 and compliments the digitized newspapers already included in our Members’ Only site. Besides the BMDs, there are also some engagements, anniversaries and birthday celebrations (and even a few divorces) indexed from the newspapers. If you are looking for a BMD for a Northern Ontario ancestor, this is the place to look.
In the near future we will be adding the digitized 1931 North Bay Nugget newspapers, as well as posting an updated index to include the rest of 1930 and the new 1931 newspaper, once completed by another great Nipissing Branch volunteer. Nipissing Branch Executive would like to thank the volunteers that have worked on the various indexes over the years (Carl Allhusen, Tom Carkner, Barb Moore and Ann Smith) as well as Steve Fulton and Jo-Anne Trousdale from the Niagara Branch who helped us with getting the newspapers and index online for our members. Thank you! If you have any questions, please contact Ann Smith at nipissingtreasurer@ogs.on.ca.
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Important News about Your Genealogy Today
Moorshead Magazines
The printer who prints Your Genealogy Today contacted us just before we were about to send our Sept/Oct 2021 25th Anniversary issue to press at the end of August to say that they were delaying the printing of Your Genealogy Today due to pandemic-related workforce shortages and paper shortages. They could not guarantee it would be printed in September, or even early October for that matter. That left us no choice other than to source a new printer, which we have done on very short notice; getting press time is difficult - but not impossible.
As a result, WE ARE printing the Sept/Oct 2021 issue of Your Genealogy Today (for subscribers only). We now have a firm date to print in the week of Sept. 13th, and the magazine will be mailed to subscribers in the week of Sept. 20th.
Effective with the Oct/Nov 2021 issue of Internet Genealogy, Your Genealogy Today will be merged into Internet Genealogy, and subscriptions will be switched to Internet Genealogy for the duration of what is owed from the existing subscription to Your Genealogy Today.
For further details, and contact information, you can read the full announcement here.
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Updates from our Favourite Bloggers
At The Occasional Genealogist Jennifer Dondero writes about evaluating evidence in How Do I Know a Genealogy Source is Correct?
Candice McDonald at Finding Your Canadian Story tells us about CSI Nova Scotia – Coroner’s Inquisitions on Family Search.
At Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections John D. Reid posted Consultation at Library and Archives Canada. And continuing on his coverage of war brides you can read his Canadian War Brides to New Zealand and Australia.
Who Do You Think You Are magazine (U.K.) posted the list of British celebrities for their seven-part series beginning in October 2021. This is the series’ eighteenth season. The most recognizable name is Dame Judi Dench. You can read the entire list here. Gail Dever posted more about this here. As she says, “Now is the time to figure out if it’s possible to watch this series from the ‘other side of the pond’.
Lorine McGinnis Schulze at Olive Tree Genealogy wrote The Things Family Don’t Know Astound Me!
Legacy Family Tree Webinars has a blog post 5 Online Genealogy Freebies You’re Missing, by Gina Philibert-Ortega. And don’t forget about Webtember – free sessions on Fridays viewable until the end of the month!
Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte wrote Here’s why you’ve had no new DNA matches on Ancestry.
At Fortify Your Family Tree DiAnn Iamarino told us to Add Context to Your Family Tree with Historic Photos.
Wayne Shepheard at Discover Genealogy proposes an interesting exercise in My Parents’ Resumes.
If you have UK ancestors, The Hidden Branch’s Tuesday Tip is about going beyond the census in your research. And they are starting a new series, “What can be found on a…” with a post about What can be found on an Irish Birth Record.
In last week’s Elevenses with Lisa, Lisa Louise Cooke shared her Genealogy Organization and Work Flow that Works. You can watch the video and read the show notes here.
Family Tree (U.K.) magazine told us we could Search over 350 years of The Gazette records for free.
Dick Eastman at Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter wrote about Secrets of U.S. Civil War Pensions, a series from gopherrecords.com.
Global Genealogy has published 27 new books since their last newsletter. Visit their website and scroll down the right side panel to learn about their new publications.
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Treasures Revealed – a new podcast is available!
In this episode of Treasures Revealed, LAC Head Photo Conservator Tania Passafiume will tell us about her discovery in the collection of a very rare type of early photograph called a pannotype. She will explain what it is, how it was made and what makes it so special and rare. Listen to it here.
New Preservation Facility Project Update
As of Wednesday, September 15th, 2021, PCL Construction can confirm that the controlled removal of the affected panels of the new Library and Archives Canada preservation facility in Gatineau is complete.
A localized structural deflection was reported on September 9th, and the site has remained secure since. The affected panels were removed to address safety concerns related to the deflection. This removal was done under the direction of structural engineers and with the approval of Quebec’s Commission on Workplace Standards, Fairness, Health and Safety (CNESST).
We continue to work with structural engineers to investigate the cause of the issue, and for the time being the site will remain closed to all but essential staff.
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FREE WEBINAR: Lindsey Winstone
DATE: Thursday, October 7th at 7:00 pm EDT
Topic: How to Find a Will in Court Records
This webinar will show you how to find pre-1976 wills and estate files in court records that are held at the Archives of Ontario. These records can hold a great deal of information about genealogical ties and assets (such as land!) that may have been passed on to heirs and possibly to your ancestors. In cases where a will does not exist, alternative records to search for more information will be indicated. This webinar will be suitable for researchers just starting to explore their family history in Ontario, or for those who are more advanced in their research.
Lindsey Winstone is a Reference Archivist at the Archives of Ontario and assists researchers to find records in the reading room and from a distance. Lindsey holds a Master of Information degree from the University of Toronto, which fostered her interest in archives and archival research. Lindsey has organized many family history research days at the Archives of Ontario, has attended family history fairs at different libraries across Ontario, and has provided webinars on family history topics.
For more information and to register, click here!
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Check out our Global Events Calendar on the our website to see the meetings and events coming up soon. During the pandemic all of the events listed will take place in an online environment.
Branch or SIG events will appear in the Calendar on the Ontario Ancestors website if it is included on the events calendar of the Branch/SIG website.
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