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OGS Webinar: The Underground Railroad Ends Here: Canadian Freedom for Blacks in 19th Century



On the first Thursday of every month, the Ontario Genealogical Society hosts an education webinar.  This month, Janice Lovelace will be presenting a webinar entitled ‘The Underground Railroad Ends Here: Canadian Freedom for Blacks in 19th Century’.   The presentation will begin at 7pm EST on August 1 and registration is required.

Janice says: ” The Underground Railroad brought tens of thousands of formerly enslaved men and women to eastern Canada in the 19th century. Do you have ancestors that might have been involved in the Underground Railroad as those escaping slavery or those helping assist?How do you find records of those who were involved? What was life like for those escaping slavery? “

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity:   REGISTER HERE for Thursday’s webinar



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OGS Webinar: Digging Deeper Into The Ontario Collections on Ancestry

On the first Thursday of every month, the Ontario Genealogical Society hosts an education webinar.  This month, Annette Burke Lyttle will be presenting a webinar entitled ‘ Digging Deeper Into The Ontario Collections on Ancestry ‘.   The presentation will begin at 7pm EST on July 4 and registration is required.

Annette says: ”
Ancestry has 220 collections of Ontario records, but putting an ancestor’s name into a search form only skims the surface of these collections. Learn how to dig deeper into Ancestry’s resources to uncover genealogical gold mines”.

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity:   REGISTER HERE for Thursday’s webinar

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OGS Webinar: DNA Painter

On the first Thursday of every month, the Ontario Genealogical Society hosts an education webinar.  This month, Linda Reid will be presenting a webinar entitled ‘DNA Painter’.   The presentation will begin at 7pm EST on June 6 and registration is required.

Linda says: ” DNA Painter is a wonderful tool for genetic genealogists. There are two different aspects to the site: tools and profiles. The tools section provides an interactive version of Blaine Bettinger’s Shared centiMorgan Project. The profiles section allows researchers to “paint” their chromosomes indicating which segments of DNA came from different ancestors. This can be done at different levels: just to grandparents or to all the ancestors whose genetic contributions can be identified. Many users choose to have more than one profile. “

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity:   REGISTER HERE for Thursday’s webinar

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NextGen welcomes Content Coordinator


The NextGen Genealogy  Network is pleased to welcome Becks Kobel as our latest Content Coordinator.

Becks is better known as ‘The Hipster Historian’ and she is obsessed with history,
the dead and telling the stories of those deceased by documenting their lives through various digital mediums.

Her goal is to bring genealogy and intersectional history to the masses and younger generations by keeping the love of genealogy going throughout all generations — which includes my focus on feminist-oriented research and progressive values.

Find her online at The Hipster Historian

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