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Taking Your Family Narrative To The Next Level – Paul Barber
We all have seen, by now, the hand written Family Study created by your Great Aunt Bertha, or the handful of family photos, sent by mail to show you what your Great Grandfather looked like. Perhaps you are lucky enough to receive your family History in the form of a book, typed and bound,…
One-Place Study
My Irish family came to Canada in 1841 to a small town in Quebec. My family did not speak French and they were not Roman Catholic, so why Quebec? To figure this out I began a One Place Study. I wanted to know if there was other family who came before or after, as well…
Remembrance of Canada’s War Dead: Overseas and at Home
Each year at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, Canadians at the National War Memorial in Ottawa and across the country pause in remembrance of those who died in military service. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemorates casualties of the two world wars from the UK, Canada and elsewhere in the former British…
Using Ontario’s Township Papers
Genealogists today have a wonderful problem – access to more information than they will ever have time to investigate. If you have Ontario ancestors, you may have heard of Township Papers, and have them on your mental list of “records I should look at someday”. Learn how the Township Papers are organized, so you can…
Session 3: Aberdeen to Zonta : Women at the University of Waterloo – Jessie Blackwell
An overview of the women’s history collections at the University of Waterloo’s Special Collections & Archives. Particular emphasis will be placed on collections of Ontarian women and on those that relate to our core collecting areas such as reproductive rights. https://vimeo.com/1071695576/e25330bc5b?share=copy The video can be viewed in fullscreen by clicking on the expand icon (four…
Diaspora and Homelands
‘Where are you from?’ is sometimes a difficult question to answer. With the advent of DNA testing, we can find out our ethnicity, and look at the implications of where our ancestors were from. This session will look at the differences between the terms ‘heritage’, ‘ancestry’, ‘ethnicity,’ and ‘descent.’ What happens when you don’t feel…
