Richmond Hill Public Library located at the corner of Yonge Street, and Major Mackenzie Drive has a genealogy library on the library’s fourth floor (now known as the Mary-Lou Griffin Room) to house information about Richmond Hill.
They have had public lectures during the winter/spring season called "Finding Our Roots Online", and they have two sessions left -
Googling for Genealogy: How to Take Advantage of all Google has to Offer
Saturday, April 28, 2012, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Most genealogists know that Google is a good place to start to find family information on the Internet but many don’t know how to get the best results from this search engine nor do they take full advantage of everything else Google has to offer. Author, librarian and genealogist Marian Press will guide you through Google alerts, image searching, Google Maps, Google Books, Google News Archives, Google Blogs, Google translation tools and more
Using Ancestry Library Edition to Find Your Family
Saturday, May 26, 2012, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Working with the databases and creating a family tree online can make it easy to keep track of your family. We all know Ancestry has the Ontario births, marriages and deaths and some of the census returns but what else is available to help us find our family? Join author, historian and genealogist Ruth Burkholder and find out
Tickets for each program is $5.00 per person.
Interested people are asked to pre-register at the Central Library’s Full Service Desk
The website is at http://www.rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca/
They have had public lectures during the winter/spring season called "Finding Our Roots Online", and they have two sessions left -
Googling for Genealogy: How to Take Advantage of all Google has to Offer
Saturday, April 28, 2012, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Most genealogists know that Google is a good place to start to find family information on the Internet but many don’t know how to get the best results from this search engine nor do they take full advantage of everything else Google has to offer. Author, librarian and genealogist Marian Press will guide you through Google alerts, image searching, Google Maps, Google Books, Google News Archives, Google Blogs, Google translation tools and more
Using Ancestry Library Edition to Find Your Family
Saturday, May 26, 2012, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Working with the databases and creating a family tree online can make it easy to keep track of your family. We all know Ancestry has the Ontario births, marriages and deaths and some of the census returns but what else is available to help us find our family? Join author, historian and genealogist Ruth Burkholder and find out
Tickets for each program is $5.00 per person.
Interested people are asked to pre-register at the Central Library’s Full Service Desk
The website is at http://www.rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca/
