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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established during the first world war to honour and’ manage the gravesites of Commonwealth Soldiers. It now maintains 23,000 sites in over 150 countries and commemorates 1.7 million Commonwealth men and women who lost their lives in both WWI and WWII. This session will provide an overview of the history and the future…
Every day, hundreds of historical treasures go on sale on websites like eBay, Bidspirit, and other online auction houses. While you may strike lucky and discover an artifact related to your own family history, you may also discover objects that bear tangible testimony to the context in which your ancestors lived: perhaps a pince nez…
This webinar helps you locate genealogy records held in libraries and archives worldwide, using online archival portals and digital finding aids. Learn how archivists make collections accessible; specific URLs for institutional, regional, and worldwide archival portals; and effective search terms and strategies for finding genealogy records in archives. https://vimeo.com/705365914?share=copy The video can be viewed in…
When Upper Canadian militia men died in the War of 1812 what happened to their wives and children? And how can they be traced without civil registration, census, probate or cemetery records? This talk will use a case study to walk the audience through the research process as I discovered a wealth of information about…
Many of our ancestors recorded their day-to-day lives in diaries, journals, and calendars. Learn how to extract all the wonderful genealogical and historical information contained these sources and how to physically preserve them for the next generation. https://vimeo.com/673648058?share=copy The video can be viewed in fullscreen by clicking on the expand icon (four diagonal arrows) in…
The value placed on Oral Tradition as a tool in family history research is often minimized (if not completely overlooked) by genealogists who overzealously focus only on primary sources of evidence. Yet, I have found oral tradition, and proving or disproving it, to be one of the most rewarding aspects of my personal family research…
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