Durham Region Branch OGS

Monday, July 7, 2008

Everton’s Genealogical Helper

Everton’s Genealogical Helper

Online Edition is now available for download. Cost is only $12 per year for the full six issues of the magazine. Traditional Magazine subscribers get FREE access. However, for the next week, the Jul-Aug, 2008 issue will be “in the clear,” and available to anyone that wants to check it out. FREE!!

http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/onlinegh/

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Stirling-Rawdon Genealogy Fair 2008

Saturday, 8:30 - 4:30,

August 23 2008

Stirling Senior School,

Stirling, Ontario

Featured Speakers:

Kathy Orr: Who are the United Empire Loyalists?

Paul McGrath: Staff Genealogist for Ancestors in the Attic

Partial List of Vendors:

Global Genealogy, Stirling-Rawdon Hist. Soc., Stirling 150th Anniv. Book Comm.,

Hastings County Historical Society, UEL Bay of Quinte,

Quinte, Kingston, and Kawartha Branches of O.G.S.,

Lakeshore Gen. Soc., LDS Trenton, Tweed Heritage Centre,

Bancroft Gen. Club, Upper Ottawa Valley Gen. Group,

South Frederick Hist. Soc., Linda Croupe, Don Kellaway, Susan Brose

Visit: www.stirling-rawdon.com/srhs.htm

CONTACT

Pat Marshall

5 Wright St., PO Box 743

Stirling, Ontario

K0K 3E0

Phone: 613 395-6243

oldcrone@sympatico.ca

Saturday, June 28, 2008

For librarians, archivists, . . .

Genealogy & Local History for All:
Services to Multicultural Communities

Welcome!
Librarians, archivists and those who provide library services to the genealogy and local history public are invited to join us in
Ottawa on August 6 & 7
for a conference that highlights the products and techniques required to accommodate their special needs.
In association and with the support of Library and Archives Canada, the Genealogy and Local History (GENLOC) and the Reference and Information Services (RISS) sections of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) have organized an overview of specific organizations and specialty topics.

Over two days, this conference will explore aspects of genealogical research relating to specific ethnic and cultural communities, such as African-American, First Nations, French-Canadian, Caribbean, Chinese and Continental European.

Library and Archives Canada

New Series of Seven Courses - Fall 2008

Computer Programs for Genealogy
Genealogical Holdings at the Archives of Ontario

Basic Genealogy and Family History
Research in Colonial America
Beyond the Basics
Multimedia Scrapbooking and Digital Imaging
Hands-on Early Ontario Land Records

http://torontofamilyhistory.org/courses.html

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Central Dutch Office for Genealogy

The Dutch Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie sends out its newsletters with an option to receive them in English. Today’s newsletter, available at http://194.171.109.12:80/news/305/CBG-Newsletter-June-26th,-2008---English-summary , announces that “the CBG is digitalizing and indexing its so-called 'German records', i.e. excerpts of German birth, marriage and death certificates regarding Dutch citizens who lived in Germany during the Second World War”. Researchers interested in the Netherlands may wish to subscribe to this newsletter.

Free Credits for ScotlandsPeople

Ancestral Scotland (http://www.ancestralscotland.com/), the official genealogy website of the Scottish Tourism Agency, is offering ten free credits on ScotlandsPeople if you register to receive their quarterly newsletter (http://www.ancestralscotland.com:80/signup/register/). When you register, they send you an e-mail with a code. After you sign in on to Scotlands People, click on “buy more credits”. Cut and paste the code in the space marked voucher code.