Sunday, October 31, 2010

In the Genea-sphere...

Until November 1st, Ancestry.ca is offering FREE access to French records in celebration of All Saints Day. Included are Quebec Land Grants, the Drouin Collection and immigration records.

New Online Resources
At Library & Archives Canada:
  • Upper Canada Land Petitions 1763-1865
  • New version of the Canadian Naturalization database

    At FamilySearch:
  • New Brunswick Births & Late Registrations 1810-1906
  • New Brunswick Death Certificates 1920-1934
  • New Brunswick Death Certificates 1935-1938
  • New Brunswick Provincial Return of Deaths 1815-1919
  • Newfoundland Vital Statistics 1753-1893
  • Prince Edward Island Baptismal Card Index 1721-1885
  • Prince Edward Island Death Card Index 1721-1905
  • Prince Edward Island Marriage Registers 1832-1888
    Source: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

    At Manitoba Archives:
  • Biographical sheets of Hudson Bay Company & North West Company employees
    Source: Anglo-Celtic Connections

    At Olive Tree Genealogy:
  • Surgeon's Journal for Ship Elizabeth Ireland to Quebec 1825
  • Extracts of Names from Surgeons' Journals of 8 ships from Ireland to Upper Canada 1825

    At BC Archives:
  • The Amazing Time Machine now includes the history of ghost town Ocean Falls
    Source: Times Colonist

    Nova Scotia Archives has debuted a YouTube channel featuring historic films

    At Ancestry.ca:
  • FREE access to 200 selected service records of those who served in the two world wars
  • Quebec, Land Grants, 1763-1890 free access until November 1st, then part of an Ancestry.ca subscription.

    Contests

    NovaScotia.com is offering the 'Discover Your Nova Scotia Roots Contest'. Winners will receive a trip to Nova Scotia and a private session with a local genealogists. Contest closes November 30th.

    CanadaGenealogy, or, 'Jane's Your Aunt' is seeking webpages, blog posts, etc. commemorating British Columbian veterans. Those who wish to participate have until November 11th.

    Volunteer Opportunities

    CanadaGenWeb's Cemetery Project
    Live near a Canadian cemetery? Our cemetery project's main focus is creating a directory of Canadian cemeteries but we also accept & post photographs of Canadian cemeteries. Help is needed to photograph older cemeteries before their inscriptions disappear forever.

    FamilySearch Indexing
  • Canada - 1871 Mortality Census
  • Canada - Passenger Lists 1881-1922
  • Canada, New Brunswick - Deaths 1815-1938 [Part A]
  • Canada, Ontario - Deaths 1933-1937
  • Canada, Ontario - Marriages, 1869-1927 [Part A]
  • Canadian 1861 Census

    Toronto OGS, in collaboration with FamilySearch Indexing, are indexing the burial registers of the "Toronto Trust Cemeteries". The project will involve four Toronto cemeteries with burials ranging from 1826-1935.

    Job Offerings
  • Toronto's Columbus Centre is seeking a Research Assistant
  • Association of Professional Genealogists need a Webmaster/Listmaster
  • Ontario Archives (Toronto) seeks a Senior Archivist

    Source: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

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    Friday, October 01, 2010

    Canadian Genealogy Events in October 2010

    ALBERTA
  • October 2, 2010: Edmonton, Edmonton AGS, Workshop, 10am-3pm
  • October 4, 2010: Edmonton, Edmonton AGS Scotland SIG, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 6, 2010: Medicine Hat, Medicine Hat AGS, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 7, 2010: Edmonton, Edmonton AGS England/Wales SIG, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 9, 2010: Calgary, Alberta Family Histories Society's Quebec SIG, Meeting, 2pm
  • October 12, 2010: Edmonton, Edmonton AGS Ireland SIG, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 13, 2010: Red Deer, Fort McMurray AGS, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 13, 2010: Medicine Hat, Medicine Hat AGS Germans from Russia SIG, Meeting, 1pm
  • October 14, 2010: Calgary, Alberta Family Histories Society's Beginner's SIG, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 14, 2010: Camrose, Camrose AGS, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 16, 2010: Calgary, Alberta Family Histories Society, Seminar, 8am-4pm
  • October 19, 2010: Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie AGS, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 19, 2010: Wetaskiwin, Wetaskiwin AGS, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 20, 2010: Drayton Valley, Drayton Valley Branch AGS, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 20, 2010: Edmonton, Edmonton AGS Canadian SIG, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 20, 2010: Medicine Hat, Medicine Hat AGS Computer SIG, Meeting, 1pm
  • October 21, 2010: Edmonton, Edmonton AGS Computer SIG, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 23, 2010: Calgary, Alberta Family Histories Society's English/Welsh SIG, Meeting, 10am
  • October 27, 2010: Calgary, Alberta Family Histories Society's Celtic SIG, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 27, 2010: Red Deer, Red Deer AGS, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 28, 2010: Edmonton, Edmonton AGS, Meeting, 7:30pm

    BRITISH COLUMBIA
  • October 4, 2010: Chilliwack, Chilliwack UELAC, Meeting
  • October 4, 2010: Kelowna, Kelowna & District Genealogical Society, Meeting
  • October 7, 2010: Campbell River, Campbell River Genealogy Society, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 7, 2010: Penticton, South Okanagan Genealogical Society, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 13, 2010: Burnaby, British Columbia Genealogical Society, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 14, 2010: Victoria, Victoria Genealogy Society, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 16, 2010: Victoria, Victoria Genealogy Society Seminar, Seminar
  • October 23, 2010: Victoria, Victoria Genealogy Society, Workshop, 10am-12pm

    MANITOBA
  • October 2, 2010: Winnipeg, East European Genealogical Society Seminar, Seminar, 8am-5pm
  • October 16, 2010: Winnipeg, Manitoba Genealogical Society, AGM, 10am
  • October 25, 2010: Winnipeg, Computer SIG, Meeting, 7:30pm

    NEW BRUNSWICK
  • October 14, 2010: Saint John, New Brunswick UELAC, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 15-17, 2010: Saint John, New Brunswick UELAC, Conference, Loyalists as Refugees

    NEWFOUNDLAND
  • October 28, 2010: St John's, Newfoundland Historical Society, Meeting

    NOVA SCOTIA
  • October 28, 2010: Halifax, Mainland South Heritage Society, Meeting, 7pm

    ONTARIO
  • September 28-November 23, 2010: North York, Toronto OGS Basic Genealogy & Family History Course, Course, 7-9pm
  • October 2, 2010: Kingston, Kingston UELAC, Meeting, 1:30pm
  • September 25 & October 2, 2010: North York, Toronto OGS Researching British Forces in Canada before 1871, Course, 1:30-3:30pm
  • October 5, 2010: Brantford, Brant OGS BISG, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 5, 2010: Oshawa, Durham Region OGS, Meeting
  • October 5, 2010: London, London & Middlesex OGS, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 6, 2010: Toronto, Governor Simcoe UELAC, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 6, 2010: Goderich, Huron OGS, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 6, 2010: Toronto, Jewish Genealogical Society, Meeting, 7:45pm
  • October 8, 2010: Guelph, Kent OGS, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 9, 2010: Ottawa, (BIFHSGO) British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa, 10am
  • October 9, 2010: North York, Toronto OGS Researching Canadian Military Records, Course, 1:30-3:30pm
  • October 12, 2010: Windsor, Essex OGS, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 12, 2010: Woodstock, Oxford OGS, Meeting, 6:30pm
  • October 13, 2010: Richmond Hill, York Region OGS, Meeting, 7:15pm
  • October 14, 2010: Kitchener, Waterloo OGS, Meeting
  • October 16, 2010: Peterborough, Kawartha OGS, Meeting, 2pm
  • October 16, 2010: Kingston, Kingston Branch OGS, Meeting, 10am
  • October 16, 2010: Wyoming, OGS Region I Meeting, Meeting, 9am-3:30pm
  • October 16, 2010: Trenton, Quinte OGS, Meeting, 1pm
  • October 16, 2010: Barrie, Simcoe OGS, Meeting, 2-4pm
  • October 16, 2010: Toronto, Toronto UELAC, Meeting, 1-4pm
  • October 18, 2010: Sudbury, Sudbury OGS, Meeting, 7pm
  • October 19, 2010: Delhi, Norfolk Branch OGS, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 20-November 10, 2010: North York, Toronto OGS Beyond The Basics, Course, 6:15-8:15pm
  • October 21, 2010: Brantford, Brant OGS FHSG, Meeting, 10am-12pm
  • October 23-24, 2010: Brantford, Brant OGS Open House, 10am-8pm
  • October 23, 2010: Hamilton, Hamilton OGS, Meeting, 2-4pm
  • October 23, 2010: Ottawa, Ottawa Branch OGS, Meeting, 10am
  • October 24, 2010: Oakville, Halton-Peel OGS, Meeting, 2pm
  • October 25, 2010: Oshawa, Durham Region OGS, Workshop, 6:30-9pm
  • October 25, 2010: North York, Toronto OGS, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 26, 2010: Southampton, Bruce-Grey OGS, Meeting, 7:30pm
  • October 26, 2010: Guelph, Wellington OGS, Meeting
  • October 30, 2010: Brantford, Brant OGS Workshop, Workshop, 9:30am

    PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
  • October 1, 2010: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Genealogical Society, Event, 7pm

    QUEBEC
  • October 2, 2010: Pointe Claire, Quebec Family History Society, Workshop, 10am-3pm
  • October 22, 2010: Verdun, Quebec Family History Society, Whisky Tasting, 8pm

    SASKATCHEWAN
  • October 26, 2010: Moose Jaw, Moose Jaw SGS, Meeting
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