Canadian genealogy often focuses on farms and homesteads, but millions of ancestors lived in Canada’s industrial centres. From pulp and paper towns to coal mines, railways, steel plants, and hydro projects, industries left behind unique records of workers and their families.  Explore labour archives, union records, accident claims, governmentreports, company magazines, and community voices preserved in newspapers. Learn how…

Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how MyHeritage is revolutionizing genealogy with artificial intelligence. In this talk, you’ll discover how the company’s content team built OldNews.com — a powerful new platform launched in March 2024 that now houses over 400 million digitized newspaper pages.  Learn how MyHeritage uses cutting-edge OCR technology to transform…

Where can you find whole communities begging for mercy for convicted horse thieves, neighbours informing on one another’s treasonous activities during the Rebellion of 1837, people applying for civil service jobs, widows asking for militia pensions, and huge lists of aliens resident in Upper Canada? In the Upper Canada Sundries. Come learn about this recently…

Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) offers an exciting new opportunity to help Law Enforcement give names back to unidentified human remains and help solve criminal cases. Since the first high-profile case was solved in 2018, well over a thousand cases have been cracked using IGG. Canada has its own share of successful case solves and there…

In this 50 minute presentation we take a look at some of the very interesting gaffs and errors found in family trees such as “Resurrection”, “The well preserved”, and “Time travellers”. At the same time we will cover how to hopefully prevent those pesky mistakes in our own trees. **Please note this webinar will take…