JUNE Durham Region Branch Meeting

Tuesday - June 5, at 7:30 p.m.
  30th Anniversary Celebration

Nancy Trimble:   Look to the Future - Social Networking

Janis Carter:       Remembering Our Branch History

Slide-Show and the Anniversary Cake

 
Bring along your family trees. You may discover unexpected ancestor connections with others while at this celebratory meeting.  Our general meeting location is the usual,McLaughlin/Main Branch of the Oshawa Library (Basement Auditorium).

Genealogy Summer Camp

Toronto, 12-17August 2012

Toronto Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society

Genealogy Summer Camp is a unique program (for adults) that brings out-of-town family historians to Toronto for an intensive week of tutorials and hands-on research at the many archives and reference libraries in the city. If you have ancestors from Toronto or other parts of Ontario, there are many resources here for you. Local family historians are also welcome to participate as “day campers”.

We take full advantage of Toronto’s great public transit system, and we keep the group small to allow lots of help from our local experts.

We’ll help you spend more time finding information about your ancestors —and less time finding the archives.

This will be our 16^th Summer Camp. More than 125 participants from England, right across Canada and many US states have attended the 15 previous Summer Camps—some more than once!

Genealogy “Summer Camp” 2012 will take place from August 12-17. The Summer Camp fee for 2012 is $230 (Cdn), which covers approximately 7 hours of lectures and tutorials, 25 hours of hands-on instruction and all worksheets and handouts.

For details as to venues, resources, tutorials and accommodation, and to download an application package, visit www.torontofamilyhistory.org/summercamp.html, or contact Jane MacNamara at info@torontofamilyhistory.org.

Applications should be received by 11 June 2012.

Family Tree Maker from Beginner to Trickster

 Durham Region Branch OGS 

Next Meeting

Tuesday - May 1, at 7:30 p.m.

Rick Roberts 

Benefit from dozens of hints and tips that will help you improve your results using Family Tree Maker 2012 (FTM) Rick provides an overview of FTM to demonstrate the software's design and abilities for recording and sharing information both on paper and digitally. His talk will Include an introduction to new features in FTM 2012, including TreeSync™ which allows you to easily update your tree online from your desktop, your laptop, even your iPhone or iPad -- and then simply click to sync so your tree is always up to date, no matter where you access it next.

Rick operates his online store at Global Genealogy (materials will be available for sale). If you email him a request he can bring it if it is in stock. This will avoid shipping costs.

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Our usual general meeting location is the Mclaughlin Branch of the Oshawa Library (basement auditorium).

Bessie Gannon 1920-2012

Bessie Gannon, a founder and longtime valued member of the branch, died on Friday, April 13, 2012, at 91.
Visitation is 2-4 and 7-9 on Tuesday - funeral 11 a.m. Wednesday, at the Oshawa Funeral Home.
We will post photos/video soon, on the main page of the branch website.

Bay of Quinte Branch UEL - Loyalist Roots Workshop

Full-sized Poster and Registration Form

The Bay of Quinte Branch will be presenting a workshop to help people find their Loyalist Roots on SATURDAY APRIL 21st, 2012 at the Adolphustown Township Hall in Adolphustown, located on old Highway #33, the Loyalist Parkway. We invite anyone doing research on their Quinte area ancestors to come out for help with their Loyalist links, and to bring along any other individuals who may be interested to discover their Loyalist connections.

The program begins at 10:00AM and runs throughout the day until 3:00PM. People may feel free to come at any time throughout the day. Those in attendance will receive several handouts, including application forms and tips for Loyalist Lineage, a list of UEL names for the Bay of Quinte area, examples of acceptable proofs and where to find them, and a certificate of participation. There will also be tours of the UEL Museum, research library and the park including a visit to the UEL Cemetery and site of the original Loyalist Landing.

There will also be a series of short talks on researching your links during the morning by Linda Corupe, Peter and Angela Johnson, and Brian Tackaberry. We will also have them available later to give you one-on-one assistance with your family search. There will also be books for sale to help with your Loyalist research.

The cost for the day is $10 which will include the handouts, coffee/tea/water and certificate. You are asked to bring along a bag lunch for the day. If you wish to attend the workshop, please complete the registration form and send to Angela Johnson, or email myself btackaberry@trytel.com or Angela johnsonue@xplornet.com.

Preserving Family History - April 4 - Oshawa

Are you the unofficial family archivist?
Join the Durham Region Area Archives Group in celebrating Archives Awareness Week from April 2 to 6.
The group will be offering a 'Preserving Your Family History' event from 2 to 8 p.m. on April 4 at the Northview Branch of the Oshawa Public Library, 150 Beatrice St. E.
Professional archivists and local history librarians will be on hand to answer questions about genealogy, document and photograph preservation, digitization, and document repair.
There will also be digitization and encapsulation demonstrations and helpful tips on how best to store your family collection.
Residents are encouraged to bring along their family photos and documents.

Quinte Branch OGS - English Probate Records - March 17, 2012

Quinte Branch OGS - Linda Reid

 English Probate Records

March 17th 2012 - Trenton, Ontario