Month: July 2019

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

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