Manitoba Heritage Tattoo & Festival

On Saturday, October 27, 2012, at 1:30 PM, there will be over 250 participants from across Manitoba who will be at Westman Place, Keystone Centre, in Brandon to perform at the Manitoba Heritage Tattoo & Festival.

The tattoo will feature the Winnipeg Police Pipes, Drums and Dancers, Rusalka Dance Ensemble, RCMP Drill Squad, Sagkeeng's Finest, Brandon University Symphonic Band, and Brandon University Massed Choristers.

There is also an exciting evening featuring the musicians of the RCAF Band's Celtic, Dixieland, and Jazz Ensembles, on Friday October 26th 7:30 pm at Knox United Church. Tickets are $12, and available at the door.

For more information, go to www.mbhtattoo.ca

All Hallow’s Eve Returns to Old Fort Erie

The following Press Release was received from The Niagara Parks Commission -

"Niagara Falls, ON – Experience the traditions of Halloween, 1812-style, brought to life through the ghosts of Canada’s bloodiest battlefield. Staff at The Niagara Parks Commission’s (NPC) Old Fort Erie are preparing the final details for these memorable tours, which will take place October 19 - 20 and October 26 - 27 beginning at 7:30 p.m.

A fun and frightening evening is promised for visitors to the old stone fort, ending with refreshments and the annual burning of a Guy Fawkes effigy. The site of the bloodiest battlefield in the history of Canada conjures up many of its own hair-raising tales. See the Old Fort from the perspective of the spirits who still make their presence felt. The past comes to life through story-telling and the ancient traditions of Halloween

Tours start at 7:30 p.m., followed by the burning of the Guy Fawkes effigy at 8:30 p.m. This event is suitable for all ages. Be prepared and dress for any kind of weather. Reservations are required. Please call 905.871.0540 to book".

The event will held October 19 - 20 and October 26 - 27 at 7:30 p.m.

The admission is Adult $12.25, Child (ages 6-12) $7.95, Children 5 and under FREE

The location is the Old Fort Erie, 350 Lakeshore Road, Fort Erie, Ontario

For more information, visit www.niagaraparksheritage.com

Say “Thank You” to Indexers

I revieved this notice from FamilySearch.org yesterday –

“Here’s your chance to say thank you to the indexers who have helped you find your ancestors. Create a short video that is one minute or less to thank FamilySearch indexers and arbitrators for helping to make records searchable online. Highlight an ancestor you have found, or highlight someone you know who has found an ancestor while searching on FamilySearch.org, and express your gratitude to the indexers who helped make it possible.

Help indexers know their work matters. Share this contest with your friends, and get them involved”!

Submission Start Date: Monday, October 8, 2012

Submission Deadline: Monday, November 5, 2012

Prized will be posted on the FamilySearch indexing Facebook page, and 5 winners will receive a $25 Visa gift card!

Read all about it at https://familysearch.org/blog/en/fsindexingvideocontest2012

Genealogy Tourism

Yesterday, the Asian Edition of the eTravelBlackboard website posted a story on genealogy tourism, the “new travel trend” in the UK and Ireland.

Is there a company in Canada which offers "Genealogy Tourism”?

To check out the whole story, go to www.etravelblackboardasia.com/article/86896/genealogy-tourism-the-new-travel-trend

Monday’s with Myrt Webinar

Yesterday, I listed to Dear Myrtle's (Pat Richley-Erickson) first webinar in her new series, “Mondays with Myrt”. What a delightful way to spend an hour or so listening to her and her cousin, Russ Worthington, who kept everything in running order.

She had, as special guest, Denise Levenick, The Family Curator blogger www.thefamilycurator.com, and author of a new book, How to Archive Family Keepsakes.

Pat and Denise talked about different aspects of archiving family heirlooms and how to go about doing that, and gave some advice on setting-up one's own archives.

Dear Myrt then had a lightning round at the end of the program in which listeners phoned in and told her how they archived their own family keepsakes.

And one more important thing to mention is that Dear Myrt asked people to enter the 2012 Share a Memory contest, and pne of the winners was Diane Rogers, the person behind the British Columbia Genealogy Society blog at http://www.bcgs.ca, and her own personal blog called CanadaGenealogy, or 'Jane's Your Aunt', at http://canadagenealogy.blogspot.com.

In her blog post of September 26, 2012 entitled, “My Childhood Room - Pink, Pink - My Share A Memory”, she talks about her childhood memory of her room in the house (she even has a floor plan of her bedroom, which she drew), and everything in the room was in her favourite coluor - PINK!

Congratulations, Diane!

So be sure to listen to Dear Myrt next week on "Mondays with Myrt". This webinar series will remain free, or you can register at http://blog.geneawebinars.com to hear her other webinar series. And don't forget to check her blog at http://blog.dearmyrtle.com.

I will see you next week as we listen to Dear Myrt on her “Mondays With Myrt” webinar.

New/Updated Websites, Blogs, and Newspaper Articles - 08 October 2012

I have come across the following websites, blogs, and newspaper articles this past week that were of interest to me, and I thought you might be interested in them, too -

Records From New France www.bms2000.org They are up to Version 16 of this database now, and they inclue the following records -

 

Parishes - 6,864 records

Patronyms - 15,614 records

Baptisms - 5,133,171 records

Marriages - 3,462,849 records

Burials - 2,255,309 records

They say that these records are “verified genealogical data”, and that the index is free. Once you have subscribed to the website, you can have access to the records themselves (for a fee).

 

Tutto Franchini! http://franchinisurname.wordpress.com Read about the Franchini family in Canada.

 

Robineau Family Genealogy www.robineau.ca Read about the Sauve, Cartier, Lavimodiere, Powell, and White families in Eastern Ontario and Quebec.

 

Half-brothers meet for the first time thanks to Internet search and Toronto Daily Star article from 1945 http://www.thestar.com/living/article/1267688--half-brothers-meet-for-the-first-time-thanks-to-internet-search-and-toronto-daily-star-article-from-1945 Nancy J. White, a reporter from the Toronto Star, reports on a story about a family from the Toronto area who have met a family member that they didn’t even know existed.

 

Donation of documents helps fill gap in area death records www.ngnews.ca/News/Local/2012-10-03/article-3092090/Donation-of-documents-helps-fill-gap-in-area-death-records/1 The News in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, reports that the Pictou County Roots Society www.pictoucountyroots.ca has discovered books in their local library that cover the period from 1877 to 1908. These books uncover death records that were previously unknown.

 

Celebrating all those yesterdays today www.kamloopsthisweek.com/entertainment/171350161.html Kamloops This Week, an online newspaper from British Columbia, has a story about how Gillian Gaisera, a genealogist from the area, read an article about genealogy in a local magazine, and started the Kamloops Family History Society! This year, they celebrate their 20th anniversary!

The website of the Kamloops Family History is at www.kfhs.org

Campbellford-Seymour Heritage Society

The society is located on Front Street in Campbellford on the main street in the middle of the town, and it is in a busy place with monthly meetings, member’s helping with cemetery transcriptions, and the Campbellford Model Railroad Club.

They have put together a Tour Guide and Map, and it contains two maps of the town (a town map, and a general map of the area), and inside of the publication, there is two full pages of sites called the Heritage of Our Community which, for example, the Ferris Provincial Park where the Highland Games are held every summer, the former bridge Street School, and the Empire Cheese & Butter Co-operative, the only cheese-making facility in Northumberland County.

They have produced four books - Gleanings, A History of Campbellford-Seymour; Campbellford Memorial Hospital: 50 Years of Care Beyond Compare, 1953-2003; A Walk Down Memory Lane: 150 Years of the Campbellford-Seymour Agricultural Society, 1854-2004; and Glimpses of Campbellford: A Collection of 300 Postcards from the Archives of the Campbellford-Seymour Heritage Society.

For research purposes, they have 119,000 family names, 100 Family Files, in their local database for Campbellford and Seymour, and Campbellford/Seymour Veterans of World War I and II.

To go to their website, click on to www.csheritage.org