Taming Your Inner Packrat

Are you drowning in a sea of papers, documents, old photographs and other research materials? Don't miss this organizational power lecture by Lisa Alzo! Learn how to organize your documents and photos for quick retrieval, use strategies to stay on track, and tame your paper and electronic monsters. Two sets of handouts, and a project template, will be available to attendees in electronic formats.

Join us for "Taming Your Inner Packrat" by Lisa Alzo and moderated by Thomas MacEntee.

Our meetings are generally  streamed on YouTube, starting at 7:30 p.m. (https://youtu.be/TF7fIAZUhWQ). Due to copyright considerations, for this meeting we will stream just the business and announcements portion. 

HOWEVER, we have purchased the rights to have the video and handouts in the Members Only Section of our website. If you are a Durham Region Branch member, you can come back and review the lecture as many times as you need to! Click here for the sign-in page. Once there, choose Branch Member Sites under the Members Only tab.

Join us at 7:30 on Tuesday, March 1st at the Oshawa Public Library on Bagot Street, Oshawa (just south of City Hall). We gather in the basement Auditorium.

Phishing - Be Aware & Don't Bite

A little short video to remind everyone that there are dangers in the electronic world!

Resources at the Oshawa Public Library

Durham Region Branch Meeting

Tuesday, Feb. 2nd, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.

Oshawa Public Library, Bagot St., Oshawa (just south of the City Hall)

Auditorium (downstairs)

Laura McEwen, Oshawa Public Library staff member, will describe the Oshawa Public Library holdings relevant to genealogical researchers.    

lmcewan@oshawalibrary.on.ca 

http://www.oshawalibrary.on.ca/pathfinderpdf/LocalHistoryCollection.pdf 

Our meetings are often streamed on YouTube, starting at 7:30 p.m. (https://youtu.be/TF7fIAZUhWQ) 

Streaming of last month's meeting was successful. Here is a slightly edited version of January's General Meeting - https://youtu.be/mjnkJlnH9K4

Life After Family Tree Maker - What Do I Do?

Don't panic - there is time to consider alternatives!

Rick Roberts of Global Genealogy has posted an excellent article in his newsletter today.

If you're wondering what your choices are, go to this link.

Lisa Louise Cooke of Genealogy Gems also posted an article last month at this link.

Check Out Your Australian Relatives!

Ancestry is opening up their Australian records for free from January 22 to January 26 (Australian time).

Did you have a branch of your family that went to Australia? Check it out here.

FindMyPast Offers Free Access This Weekend

This weekend FindMyPast.co.uk is making billions of world records FREE to explore. From 7:00 am EST on Friday 22nd to 7:00 am EST on Monday 25th January 2016 dive into the newspaper archive, birth, marriage and death records, crime collections, and so much more.

Go to the website here.

Registration for the OGS Conference 2016 in Toronto is Now Open!

I suspect many in the OGS community have already heard the good news through e-mail promotion or social media that general registration for Conference 2016 is now open. But if you haven't...

http://www.ogs.on.ca/conference/registration/

You can register now to take advantage of the early-bird rate which ends on March 15th.

Also, don't forget to book your hotel rooms by following the link from the Conference Accomodations page (http://www.ogs.on.ca/conference/accommodation/). That way you earn the OGS group rate, and the Conference gets credited with generating the room nights (which in turn brings down the costs of our lecture rooms).

We look forward to seeing you at OGS Conference 2016!

Paul Jones

Chair, OGS Conference 2016