Tracing Forward - Searching for Relatives in Recent Times

Toronto Branch of the OGS has just issued a Call for Presentations for a fall workshop titled “Tracing Forward - Searching for Relatives in Recent Times”.

The aim of this workshop, to be held on Saturday 26 October, is to offer new ideas, skills or tools to help researchers trace members of their expanded family trees, people who might still be alive or recently deceased. We are hoping to receive proposals from professional genealogists, family historians, private investigators, legal experts and heir searchers.

The deadline for proposals is Friday 31 May. 

The website is at www.torontofamilyhistory.org

RootsTeck 2013: Live Streaming Schedule Day 1

There will be Live Streaming of the Keynote Speech, plus four other talks starts Thursday at 10:30 AM EDT with Dennis Brimhall, FamilySearch International chief executive officer, Syd Lieberman, Professional Storyteller, and Josh Taylor , Business Development Manager of FindMyPast.com. I will be Live Streaming.

The rest of the speeches for Thursday are - 

1:00 PM EDT      The Future of Genealogy - Thomas MacEntee and panel

3:45 PM EDT     Tell it Again (Story@Home) - Kim Weitkamp

5:00 PM  EDT    The Genealogists Gadget Bag - Jill Ball and panel

6:15 PM EDT     Finding the Obscure and Elusive: Geographic Information on the Web       - James Tanner

Over 50,000 views of live streaming attended last year’s sessions.

New/Updated CANADIAN Websites, Blogs, Facebook, and Newspaper Articles - 18 March 2013

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

Websites

HistoricPlaces.net www.historicplaces.net I checked the places around Ontario, and there are some of interest. Besides posting where they are located, there usually is a picture on the site of the place e.g. train stations, hotels etc

Canadian Ancestry https://sites.google.com/site/freecanadianancestry

Discover your Canadian family history and start your family tree. Find resources for all Provinces and access many genealogy records including Census, Land and Cemetery records.  

Blog

No new blogs this week

Facebook

Essex County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society (EssexOGS)  www.facebook.com/EssexCountyOGS

Olive Tree Genealogy www.facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259

Video

No new videos this week

Newspaper Articles

Genealogy group will rent space in library basement www.cornwallseawaynews.com/News/2013-03-14/article-3199915/Genealogy-group-will-rent-space-in-library-basement/1A further update on a story that was carried a couple of weeks ago by this blog. La Généalogie et archives Saint-Laurent (GASL) will have the room in the local city library to put their archives.

How to create your own family tree, step by step http://metronews.ca/features/who-are-you/590960/how-to-create-your-own-family-tree-step-by-step So you want to learn about your family history, but you don’t know where to begin. Lesley Anderson, Content Specialist and spokesperson for Ancestry.ca has some tips on how you can begin your genealogy journey, and she gives five steps that she suggests.

Barrington Street height limit increase considered: Proposal will affect Westin Nova Scotian, Via Rail and Atlantic Superstore  www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/03/15/ns-barrington-height-limit.html The Halifax Regional Municipality is considering increasing the height limit for several properties at the south end of Barrington Street.

Chef dyes trademark moustache for St. Patrick's Day www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2013/03/17/chef-dyes-trademark-moustache-for-st-patricks-day A well known chef in Canada, Massimo Capra, became Irish for the day. He changed his surname to O'Capra, and dyed his moustache green!

A trek across space and time to self-discovery http://metronews.ca/features/who-are-you/592816/a-trek-across-space-and-time-to-self-discovery Linda Kawamoto, now Linda Reid, found a story written by a woman with the same name as her grandmother. Was it her grandmother? Read the article and find out!

Mayor vows to try and pass a new motion against headstone bylaw www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2013/03/12/mayor-vows-to-try-and-pass-a-new-motion-against-headstone-bylaw Ron Eddy is hoping to head off a mounting crisis over a prospective order to remove a Korean inscription from the back of a headstone in the St. George Cemetery.

Rick Steves: Museums chronicle migration to America     www.timescolonist.com/life/travel/rick-steves-museums-chronicle-migration-to-america-1.87914A column about Norwegian roots, and Rick Steves takes a trip to the southern Norway port of Stavanger, where there is the Norwegian Emigration Center (emigrationcenter.com). This is where the first boats sailed with emigrants to “Amerika” in 1825.

Picture and Story of the Week

BIFHSGO celebrates St. Patrick’s Day http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2013/03/bifhsgo-celebrates-st-patricks-day.html A band of hearty BIFHSGO members braved the minus temperature Saturday to march in St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Ottawa.

The St. Patrick’s Day parade gave them a good opportunity to advertise the Irish Theme that will be featured at their annual conference that will be held in September in Ottawa

See more pictures on their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/British-Isles-Family-History-Society-of-Greater-Ottawa/149788348437126

To keep with the Irish theme, BIFHSGO is pleased to have booked Eileen O'Duill, CG, as a major speaker for the 19th annual conference.  

John D. Reid, and Glenn Wright was over to WDYTYA in London in February, and while there, John interviewed Eillen, and you can listen to the interview at www.bifhsgo.ca/cpage.php?pt=62

Look for more articles next Monday March 25th. 

CANADIAN Newspaper Articles Every Monday

Don’t forget to check my blog every Monday morning for my New/Updated CANADIAN Websites, Blogs, and Newspaper Articles.

This week I have put on Pictures and Story of the Week where I do a special Irish pre-conference report on the BIFHSGO conference to be held in September in Ottawa.

So don’t miss the New/Updated Websites, Blogs, and Newspaper Articles blog on Monday March 18th.

It has been a regular blog since April 23, 2012.

Elizabeth

FREE access to immigrant roots to end soon

Free access to select immigration records ends at midnight Eastern Daylight Time, today, Sunday, March 17th. 

So come to Ancestry.com right now to learn about an ancestor's voyage to America in passenger lists. Or find out if they traveled by land in border crossings records.

Go to http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/18142230/family

Irish Canadians

Almost 1.2 million Irish immigrants arrived in Canada from 1825 to 1970. By 1867, they were the second-largest ethnic group in Canada and comprised 24% of Canada's population. About one-half settled in Ontario. One-third was Catholic, and two-thirds were Protestant.

While many immigrants came as farmers with such settlement schemes as cheap (or free) land, some of the immigrants came to work on the infrastructure of the country, such as canals, roads, railroads, and in the lumber industry in Ontario.

I have been reading the new book, Researching Your Irish Ancestors at Home and Aboard by OGS member Dr. David R. Elliott, and have excerpted a part of it in the May issue of Families, of which I am the editor.  

This book is written from the point of view of getting your research in order at home before going to conduct research in Ireland.  By using, the approach outlined in the book, it should give the researcher a degree of satisfaction in finding your Irish roots.

This book can be purchased at the Ontario Genealogical Society at http://ogs.on.ca/ogscart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1502&zenid=aq9j832c6ok4khsr02obnar5b6

To refresh your knowledge of the Irish in Canada, you can go to the Library and Archives Canada at www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-905.005-e.html