The November 2011 edition of the newsletter of the York Branch of the OGS, Ancestors, has been published. It continues with "The Udell Family of Markham, Pickering and Uxbridge (Part 2)" in which Walter Udell continues the story of the family through the middle- and late-1800s.
If you are interested, a website has been developed at www.udellfamily.ca.
At September's meeting, Rich Roberts from Global Genealogy talked about the latest edition of Family Tree Maker, and at the October meeting, Wes Playter talked about the Roadhouse & the Rose Funeral Home in Newmarket.
A Special Note: The York Branch will be celebrating their 15th year celebration in June. They are asking that if you have family history or photos that you would like to have featured at the party, email barbara.barr.ogs@gmail.com.
You can go to their website at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onyrbogs. The York Region covers the former York County minus the City of Toronto.
If you are interested in joining Ontario Genealogical Society and the York Branch, go to www.ogs.on.ca/membership.php.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The Archive CD Books Project
I have just received "The Archive CD Books Project" newsletter that Malcolm Moody, and his wife, Chris, send out each month. I look forward to seeing where they have been, what books they have scanned lately, and what events they will attend in the future. Their website is www.archivecdbooks.ca.
They have oodles of CDs for sales. They are not only very nice people, but are quite knowledgeable about Canadian and United Kingdom genealogy.
The project began in the United Kingdom in 2000, and Malcolm started the Canadian branch in 2003. They have been open for business since March 2004.
The newsletter is FREE (with lots of news), and you can subscribe at books@archivecdbooks.ca. They also have a Facebook page, where you can view pictures of the Kitchener Public Library’s First (Annual) Genealogy Fair -
Disclaimer: This is a business site, and while I have never received payment nor special consideration for this blog, I should mention that I have known Malcolm and Chris for a number of years, having attended the same conferences together, and as a customer.
Tomorrow's Post - The York Branch "Ancestors" newsletter
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Bourgeois Family/Histoire de Bourgeois
The website http://histoire-de-bourgeois.ca has developed a genealogical history, Histoire de Bourgeois - the genealogy and stories of Bourgeois' of Acadian descent. They are also have it on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=120627851304544
Marc Bourgeois has been working on the Bourgeois Family for the past ten years, and he started researching when his mother asked him if he could look into their roots.
Marc says that “Although it took me a while to discover my Acadian roots once I discovered them, I began a multi-year project (now eight years and still going) to document as many of the Bourgeois descendants of my Acadian Ancestor as possible and to make that research available to other family historians via the web”.
He goes onto says that “The result is the “the-bourgeois-story.ca” site (bilingual) which documents over 13,000 Bourgeois’ from across north America, descendants of Jacques Jacob Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan, married in 1643 in Port-Royal, Acadia. The site now has over 330 registered users (growing daily), and gets over a thousand hits a week”.
This is a bilingual site (F/E), and as Marc can tell, it is “the largest and most well documents (over 160,000 citations) Bourgeois family related site available on the Internet”.
So if you are related in any way to the Bourgeois Family, use the contact page at http://histoire-de-bourgeois.ca/suggest.php.
Tomorrow's Blog - The Archive CD Books Project
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Borders and Bridges:1812 to 2012 Conference
News Flash!
The program of the 2012 OGS Conference "Borders and Bridges:1812 to 2012" to be held in Kingston, Ontario the 1st to the 3rd of June has just been posted at http://www.ogs.on.ca/conference2012/program.
Details of the registration will be posted December 1st.
Historical Online Newspapers in Canada
I was having an email conversation the other day with a friend out in BC, and she was saying what a nice newspaper collection that the University of British Columbia has accumulated.
It got me thinking about newspapers and their importance in finding out local history of a place. So I put together this list.
Here is my attempt at summarizing the sites of digitized newspapers on the Internet -
British Columbia Historical Newspapers Project - www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2011/11/07/historical-b-c-newspapers-digitized-by-ubc library FREE! The site contains more than 45,000 pages of 24 historical BC newspapers. The newspapers date from 1865 to 1924.
Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers Online - http://librariesns.ca/content/newspaper-digitization FREE! The Halifax at Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management, and in Sydney at the Beaton Institute, Cape Breton University has put on the Internet over 19,000 pages of digitized newspaper content from sixteen newspapers dating from 1769 to 1991.
OurOntario.ca Community Newspapers - http://ink.ourontario.ca FREE! Thirty newspapers are digitized, with a special emphasis on historical newspapers from Kingston, Ontario.
Peel’s Praries Provinces (Newspapers) - http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/newspapers FREE! Over 80 western historical newspapers have been digitized.
The Early Alberta Newspaper Collection - www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr FREE! Our Future, Our Past: The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project is a project from the University of Calgary. The collection contains editions from 1880 to 1950.
Manitoba Newspapers - http://manitobia.ca/content/en/newspaperslist FREE! Contains over 30 newspapers. You can search by years and months, with some newspapers going up to the present-day.
Connecting Canada: Canada’s Multicultural Newspapers Beta Website - www.connectingcanadians.org/?q=en/content/home FREE! The collection contains Croatian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Latvian, and Lithuanian newspapers.
French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919) - www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canadian-newspapers-french/index-e.html FREE! These are 230 newspaper titles from French-Canadian communities across Canada.
Digital collection: Newspapers - www.banq.qc.ca/collections/collection_numerique/index.html?language_id=1&categorie=6 -
FREE! These newspaper are at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, and are published in French only.
There may have been some collections that I have missed. If you come across some other collections that have been put on the Internet and are FREE!, please let me know at genealogycanada@aol.com.
Tomorrow's Post - Histoire de Bourgeois - the genealogy and stories of Bourgeois' of Acadian descent
Monday, November 28, 2011
New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 13
Here are some of the websites and blogs that I have come across the week ending November 27, 2011 -
Welcome to Bill Gladstone - www.billgladstone.ca NEW! Bill Gladstone is a Toronto-based journalist, author, publisher, public speaker, and noted genealogist.
Oakville Memories - www.oakville-memories.info Although Bob Hughes hasn’t posted for a year, the posts that are online, and the names in those posts, may help someone with their ancestry.
Looking4Ancestors - www.looking4ancestors.com Started by Kathryn Lake started in 2008, she blogs on a consistent basis about genealogy in general.
Murmurd's Franco-American and Québec Genealogy - www.murmurd.blogspot.com An "AMERICAN in QUÉBEC"!, the blogger has been actively researching her French-Canadian roots in Canada.
The Kelowna & District Genealogical Society - www.kdgs.ca Their blog has been online since 2008, and they regularly update their upcoming events, as well as changes in their resources.
Welcome to the Library and Archives Canada Blog! - http://thediscoverblog.com NEW! A four-month trial blog has been initiated by the LAC for the staff to post articles of interest to all researchers.
Recipes and Recollections: Treats and Tales from Our Mother's Kitchen - http://staffordwilson.com
NEW! Arlene Stafford-Wilson is an author who grew up in Lanark County, and has produced a book about her mother and the recipes she used in the home where Arlene grew up.
The Jehan and Perrine Terriot Family Website - www.terriau.org A bilingual site (F/E) that is the website of the Terriot Acadian Family Society.
Welcome to the Leaves of my Tree - www.robinsancestry.com Robin Wallace has created this most entertaining website where she list over 2500 names of ancestors.
SaskResearch - www.saskresearch.com $ This website will help you to find your Saskatchewan ancestors.
Tomorrow Post: Historical Newspapers in Canada.
Welcome to Bill Gladstone - www.billgladstone.ca NEW! Bill Gladstone is a Toronto-based journalist, author, publisher, public speaker, and noted genealogist.
Oakville Memories - www.oakville-memories.info Although Bob Hughes hasn’t posted for a year, the posts that are online, and the names in those posts, may help someone with their ancestry.
Looking4Ancestors - www.looking4ancestors.com Started by Kathryn Lake started in 2008, she blogs on a consistent basis about genealogy in general.
Murmurd's Franco-American and Québec Genealogy - www.murmurd.blogspot.com An "AMERICAN in QUÉBEC"!, the blogger has been actively researching her French-Canadian roots in Canada.
The Kelowna & District Genealogical Society - www.kdgs.ca Their blog has been online since 2008, and they regularly update their upcoming events, as well as changes in their resources.
Welcome to the Library and Archives Canada Blog! - http://thediscoverblog.com NEW! A four-month trial blog has been initiated by the LAC for the staff to post articles of interest to all researchers.
Recipes and Recollections: Treats and Tales from Our Mother's Kitchen - http://staffordwilson.com
NEW! Arlene Stafford-Wilson is an author who grew up in Lanark County, and has produced a book about her mother and the recipes she used in the home where Arlene grew up.
The Jehan and Perrine Terriot Family Website - www.terriau.org A bilingual site (F/E) that is the website of the Terriot Acadian Family Society.
Welcome to the Leaves of my Tree - www.robinsancestry.com Robin Wallace has created this most entertaining website where she list over 2500 names of ancestors.
SaskResearch - www.saskresearch.com $ This website will help you to find your Saskatchewan ancestors.
Tomorrow Post: Historical Newspapers in Canada.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Tweedsmuir Histories – Elgin County
Over the past number of years, Elgin County Archives has been digitizing the Tweedsmuir Histories of Elgin County.
When they first started at the Archives, there were 27 Tweedsmuir History volumes containing about 5000 pages. As they continued, the number of volumes increased to 50, covering over 7000 pages.
The people of the individual Women’s Institutes became the “unofficial archivists” of Ontario counties and districts. They constructed “scrapbooks”, and they present information about oral histories and photographs.
Looking at these books, there are “Family Trees”, “Pioneer Histories”, the history of schools, churches, businesses, and individual family histories. I don’t think that there are any such histories in the rest of Canada that can come up to this level of history written by ordinary people. It is, as their website says, “an outstanding resource on the history of rural Ontario”.
The counties covered are - Aldborough, Dunwich, Southwold, Yarmouth, Malahide, South Dorchester, Bayham, East Elgin, and West Elgin.
You can read them at www.elgin.ca/ElginCounty/CulturalServices/Archives/tweedsmuir/index.html.
There is also a Photo Gallery at www.elgin.ca/ElginCounty/CulturalServices/Archives/tweedsmuir/aldborough2.html
It was announced early in November that the Elgin County Archives received a donation of $6,000 from the Elgin County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. This donation will help complete the project, which is expected to be completed between January and May of 2012.
Tomorrow's Post - New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 13
When they first started at the Archives, there were 27 Tweedsmuir History volumes containing about 5000 pages. As they continued, the number of volumes increased to 50, covering over 7000 pages.
The people of the individual Women’s Institutes became the “unofficial archivists” of Ontario counties and districts. They constructed “scrapbooks”, and they present information about oral histories and photographs.
Looking at these books, there are “Family Trees”, “Pioneer Histories”, the history of schools, churches, businesses, and individual family histories. I don’t think that there are any such histories in the rest of Canada that can come up to this level of history written by ordinary people. It is, as their website says, “an outstanding resource on the history of rural Ontario”.
The counties covered are - Aldborough, Dunwich, Southwold, Yarmouth, Malahide, South Dorchester, Bayham, East Elgin, and West Elgin.
You can read them at www.elgin.ca/ElginCounty/CulturalServices/Archives/tweedsmuir/index.html.
There is also a Photo Gallery at www.elgin.ca/ElginCounty/CulturalServices/Archives/tweedsmuir/aldborough2.html
It was announced early in November that the Elgin County Archives received a donation of $6,000 from the Elgin County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. This donation will help complete the project, which is expected to be completed between January and May of 2012.
Tomorrow's Post - New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 13
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