Durham Branch of Ontario Ancestors Announces Their May Meeting Will be VIRTUAL!

Durham Branch of Ontario Ancestors Announces Their May Meeting Will be VIRTUAL!

Join the Durham Region Branch Tuesday, May 5th at 7:30 p.m. on the Society's virtual platform, Zoom.

The topic will be "Making English Connections". It will be presented by Bob Dawes, an excellent speaker who has presented at several of the Ontario Ancestors Conferences in the past and has been a speaker at many Durham Region Branch events.

This presentation will demonstrate how to use the many free and paid websites to make connections with your English ancestors. Bob Dawes has traveled throughout the UK doing his family history and is experienced in using their many genealogical research sources.

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vpUrde2pqz8vmPQtdkb6BsuwCnF4LkRhLw

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

Bob’s handout is at http://tinyurl.com/EnglishConnections 

Ontario Land Registry (OnLand) - New Website! (First Phase)

From the OGS e-Weekly of Jan. 13, 2018 comes some exciting news:

"Ontario Land Registry Access (OnLand) is Here!
The Ontario Genealogical Society
 
Our Facebook Groups lit up this week with the announcement that access to the Ontario Land Registry information was now available online!  The announcement, sent out from the new service, reads:  Teranet, in partnership with ServiceOntario, has built this web portal to deliver key statutory services relating to land and property ownership in Ontario to land registry professionals and the public.

The first phase of the web portal offers customers the opportunity to test out the historical land registration book search and view option only. Customers will still be required to visit a land registry office to print any records. For more information on Historical Books, please click here.

They went on to say that the organization would provide an update when full search capabilities are available on OnLand in late 2018.  When fully implemented, OnLand will allow users to search historical and current property records, anywhere in the province, from the convenience of their home or office, instead of visiting a land registry office."

I couldn't resist playing with the new site for a few minutes and very quickly was able to browse to my 2x gt-grandfather's land Lot 13, Concession 9 in Clarke Township. Here's a screenshot:

I don't think that I am exaggerating when I say that this access will revolutionize the way we do research in Ontario! May this site progress to it's full capability quickly!

A Day of Learning - temporary web page problem

During OGS's migration of our branch website, the page showing the Day of Learning Workshops information has reverted to an older version for some reason. This is what it should look like (and should again, in the near future), with an active link to the Paypal instructions: http://durham.ogs.on.ca/workshops/paypal.htm
Just to review, registration simply involves e-mailing your name and e-mail address to durhamevents@ogs.on.ca. Anne Delong, will read your message and generate a Paypal invoice to be sent to your e-mail address. The invoice will have a link for making payment, either with a Paypal account (not necessary), or with a credit card. Or, mail your registration information, with a cheque, to the address shown on the form - still clickable, on the workshops main page.
In order to make lunch arrangements, she requests registration by October 18th.