April 18, 2024 at 7:00 pm ET – sponsored by the Genetic Genealogy Special Interest Group This presentation will provide ten tips and a method to organize your Genetic Genealogy DNA research using the ‘DNA Research Binder’.  By working your way through the tips and the process of creating your own DNA Research Binder, you…

May 23, 2024 7:00 pm ET sponsored by the Waterloo Branch and co-hosted with the Wellington Branch Edwin (Ed) Taylor was the only grandparent Art Taylor ever knew. Art attributes several of his own interests to his maternal grandfather. While studying various documents, letters, postcards, greeting cards, photo prints, and several formats of negatives, including…

June 20, 2024 7:00 pm ET – sponsored by the British Home Children Special Interest Group This webinar with slides will be similar to the presentation already on the NOTL Museum website which discusses the contributions of Ms Maria Rye and the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society between 1868 and 1914, during which…

Thursday, March 14th, 2024 at 7:00pm The first people to pioneer the idea of child migration were Scottish Evangelical Christians Annie MacPherson and her sister Louisa Birt. Born in Stirlingshire, Annie was educated in London and became aware of the poverty in the city’s East End. Annie reached out to her Christian Women associates back…

February 22nd, 2024 at 7pm ET In 1816 William Dickson purchased over 90,000 acres in the area between Galt and Brantford, east and west of the Grand River, and he set about settling his surveyed lots with fellow countrymen from the Borders area in Scotland. Over the following decades he, and his son after him,…

January 18th, 2024 7:00 pm ET Does the thought of writing source citations make you cringe? This presentation explains how and why we need to write good source citations for our Canadian family histories. The essential components of a source citation will bediscussed. Example source citations will be shown featuring Canadian and Ontario records.