The next Toronto Branch meeting will take place on the evening of Monday October 27, beginning at 7:30 p.m., via Zoom. Many Toronto neighbourhoods were once home to soldiers who left to serve in the First World War and never returned. In our main October presentation, The Dead from Down the Street, lawyer, writer and lecturer Drew von Hasselbach will show us how to look up the addresses where they lived and bring their […]
Big news if you have early Ontario roots! The Ontario Land Records Index (OLRI) is now available free of charge online—thanks in large part to Toronto Branch volunteers! The OLRI is an index to settlers who were allocated Crown land in the province over more than 100 years, from the 1780s to the early 20th century. This land was all considered “Crown land”, but it is essential to recognize that it had been home […]
We launched the fall season at Toronto Branch with a bonus in-person event on Saturday September 20, in advance of our regular monthly meeting online the evening of Monday September 22. Our September 20 meeting took place in the Auditorium of the North York Central Library, located at 5120 Yonge Street at the North York Centre subway station. The theme of the afternoon was Preserving Family Archives. Our main speaker, Kyla Ubbink, runs a […]
Toronto Branch is thrilled to be hosting an advanced-level, full-day workshop on Y-DNA testing on October 18, led by David Vance, a worldwide expert on Y-DNA and vice-president of FamilyTreeDNA. Y-DNA is passed down from father to son, and can be a big help to genealogists researching direct paternal lines. Develop your skills and deepen your understanding of the Y-DNA test and its potential uses with sessions on the latest from FTDNA, testing […]