31 March 2006

More Vernon's Ontario Directories

›
The following are digitized versions of WW1 era city directories, contributed by the Toronto Public Library. Vernon 's city of St. Catha...
2 comments:
30 March 2006

BIFHSGO Meeting - 8 April

›
On April 8 the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa will welcome Ryan Taylor, Genealogical Librarian at the Allen County P...
29 March 2006

Lovell's Canadian Dominion Directory - 1871

›
Malcolm and Chris Moody at Archive CD Books Canada recently released a CD of this huge directory. As they write on their web site, other t...
28 March 2006

Less clutter in your life - part 2

›
George Morgan, Megan Smolenyak, Juliana Smith are names of US genealogists you may recognize, especially if you have subscribed to the Ances...

Royal Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment War Diaries

›
The war diaries of the Royal Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiments for World War 1 are transcribed. The information presented totals almost 16...
27 March 2006

Frederick Chapman Clemesha

›
At St Julian, on the main road from Ypres (Ipres) to Bruges called Vancouver Corner by Canadian soldiers during WW1, stands a white granite ...
26 March 2006

17th Highland Light Infantry

›
This First World War Battalion history is now available as a pdf download. A must see for those with ancestors who served with the 17th High...
25 March 2006

History of the Worthies of England

›
The major part of this 1840 updated publication of a work originally published in 1662, is a county by county recounting of the natural comm...
24 March 2006

SCOTLAND 1851 CENSUS

›
Indexes and images for the 1851 Census for Scotland are now available online at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk . Contents include name, relatio...
23 March 2006

Vernon's farmers' and business directory 1916

›
Newly digitized by the Toronto Public Library (did someone ask why not a local institution?) and available as a free download is Vernon'...
21 March 2006

Less clutter in your life - part 1

›
In clearing up the clutter a good start is vital, just as in a foot race. That means doing something up front that returns noticable results...

Temporary Free Access to the Oxford OED and DNB

›
As part of The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival there is free access this week to both the full Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxfor...

1890 British and Irish Passenger Lists

›
The Origins Network are now starting to make available abstracts of 1890 passenger lists from British & Irish ports to US and Canadian d...
20 March 2006

Capital Lives

›
The speaker at the OGS Ottawa Branch monthly meeting at 7:30 pm on Tuesday 21 March is Valerie Knowles, the author of "Capital Lives....

Making history: one Voice at a time

›
Create a public hearing for silenced voices, past and present. A "how to" reading and workshop with Michael Riordon, writer, radio...
19 March 2006

Less clutter in your life

›
One hazard of being a genealogist is being swamped by the mass of books, papers and data CDs that gather in our home as if a vacuum is drawi...
18 March 2006

Links for Gene-O-Rama Presentation

›
Ottawa Public Library - www.library.ottawa.on.ca Surname Distribution - www.spatial-literacy.org Ottawa Branch, OGS, Cemetery Index - www.og...
17 March 2006

Spicing up your family history

›
A friend's wedding photo shows the happy couple leaving the church on 20 March 1954 at St Catharines, while snow flakes fall like extra ...
16 March 2006

United Empire Loyalists

›
Many Ontario genealogists have been anticipating Brenda Dougal Merriman's new book United Empire Loyalists, A Guide to Tracing Loyalist ...
15 March 2006

Gene-O-Rama 2006

›
Folks in the Ottawa area have a great genealogical opportunity this Saturday, March 16. For the first time the Orleans United Church,1111 Or...