Lady Mary Teviot to Speak in Oshawa

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Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Durham Region Branch
Ontario Genealogical Society

7:30 p.m.,
McLaughlin Branch Auditorium, Oshawa Public Library,
65 Bagot Street, Oshawa.
The guest speaker for this month is Lady Mary Teviot
who is visiting Ontario from West Sussex, England.

The Parish Chest
This presentation includes a range of records generated by the Anglican Church: how to access, how to use, and how they can enhance your family history research.

Newly Revised Family Tree of Confucius Just Released

Before this release the last update over 70 years ago. You think your research has been tough. Imagine 79 generations, two million names. This year is the 2560th anniversary of Confucius's birth. A recent back up was stored in a buried coffin. Learn more at . . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6230959/Confucius-family-tree-unveiled.html
First learned about this story reading Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (EOGN)

1911 Irish Census

All thirty-two counties for 1911 are now available and searchable on these sites (thank you Rose and Joyce).

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

Maps, Maps, and more Maps of Scotland

At the last Durham Region Branch OGS meeting, Bruce MacDonald mentioned the map CD that he had picked up at the National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh) this past summer.

The web page is http://www.nls.uk/maps/ . He found the people extremely helpful and willing to help him to find the map he needed. It was an 1869 Argyllshire map. They scanned it and then burned it onto a CD (a TIF format - high quality), for a nominal cost of £7 (approx $14). He highly recommends this service to anyone searching Scottish ancestors, as often the town names over the years, change name, spelling or disappear all together (the later was his issue). He hopes this helps someone.

It is a very impressive, organized and extensive repository of maps.

Snippets

DOORS OPEN OSHAWA Sat.-Sun., Sept. 26-27, 12-4 p.m.

AJAX SENIORS Centre(Call): Intro Genealogy Course presented by N. Trimble. NOV 17, 9-11 a.m.

A FALL EVENT Bruce/Grey OGS Branch, Sept 26, Durham, ON
http://alice.bmts.com/~bgogs/

NORFOLKLORE Sept. 26, between 10am and 4pm, Simcoe, ON
http://www.norfolklore.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=1

9th ANNUAL HERITAGE FESTIVAL Oct. 3, 10 a.m., at the Oshawa P. L.

FAMILY HISTORY COURSES Fall ‘09, Toronto Branch
http://www.torontofamilyhistory.org/courses.html

APPLICATIONS due ‘Brian W. Hutchison Genealogy Scholarship’, DEADLINE Dec. 31
http://www.afhs.ab.ca/scholarship/images/2009scholarshipapplication.pdf

OPENING/TRAINING on New Office Research Computers – WATCH THIS BLOG

Ancestry and Drouin

Well, you may have missed it.

In the past week . .
Ancestry and the Drouin Genealogical Institute disagree, sever their relationship and the collection is pulled from the Ancestry site.

No sooner that news was out and about, then . .
Ancestry and the Drouin Genealogical Institute reach an agreement and the collection is back on the Ancestry site.

All are friends again. :-)

Websites to Show Current Surname Distribution

These websites were briefly introduced at our last branch meeting. They show surname distribution based on registered landline telephones. Some of the information I found suggested possible new places to research some of my ancestors.

The first link came from a recent edition of Kindred Spirits, most interesting results.
http://publicprofiler.org/worldnames

The following are web sites are country based. More variable results.

Austria: http://www.verwandt.at/karten
Canada: http://www.dynastree.ca/maps
France: http://www.familleunie.fr/cartes
Germany: http://www.verwandt.de/karten/
Spain: http://www.miparentela.com/mapas
Switzerland: http://www.verwandt.ch/karten/
USA: http://www.dynastree.com/maps

Have fun.

Oshawa Community Museum

As a follow up to the presentation by Peter Martin at our Branch meeting on September 8th, here is their web address:
http://www.oshawamuseum.org/
For more information contact Jennifer Weymark, Archivist at:
archivist@oshawamuseum.org

Tomorrow - Family Health Trees - September 15th

Just In!!! Oshawa Historical Society Meeting
OPL – McLaughlin Branch 7:00 p.m.
“Family Health Trees” authors, Luanne McNabb, Elizabeth Curtis, Kathleen Barclay Bowley discuss Medical History and DNA in Genealogical Research.

9th Annual Heritage Festival

Location: OSHAWA PUBLIC LIBRARY McLaughlin Branch
Date & Time: October 3 @ 10:00:00 AM

Join us for our 9th Annual Heritage Festival. An amazing showcase of Durham’s heritage resources will be on display free to the public throughout the McLaughlin Branch. Be sure to visit the exhibitors from museums, historical societies, genealogical and military groups, scrapbookers and many others who will be exhibiting and promoting their services.
No registration required. Free parking all day.
For more Information, please contact
Nicole at 905-579-6111 ext 5243.

Lady Mary Teviot to Speak in Oshawa

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Durham Region Branch Ontario Genealogical Society

7:30 p.m., McLaughlin Branch, Oshawa Public Library, 65 Bagot Street, Oshawa. The guest speaker for this month is Lady Mary Teviot who is visiting Ontario from West Sussex, England.

The Parish Chest

This presentation includes a range of records generated by the Anglican Church: how to access, how to use, and how they can enhance your family history research.

'Bio'

Lady Teviot has been involved with Family History Research for over 35 years. She has undertaken lecture tours in Canada, Australia, South Africa, USA and New Zealand and is an accredited speaker for Surrey, East and West Sussex W.I.’s. Her company is Census Searches Ltd. ( http://www.census-searches.co.uk )which undertakes research into family history, probate and media research.

She is President of the Federation of Family History Societies. She is also Vice Chairman of the Friends of East Sussex Record Office and a Member of the Council of the British Records Association.

Lady Teviot took part in the second series of Heir Hunters on BBC 1 and is participating in the third series which will be shown during the summer of 2009.

http://www.durham.ogs.on.ca