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Archive for January, 2013
Friday, January 25th, 2013
Date: Monday, February 25, 2013
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Gold Room, North York Memorial Community Hall, 5110 Yonge St., Toronto (map)
Topic: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor: Mining the Internet for Occupational Photographs”
Speaker: Bonnie Bell
Brief Overview: Learn how to find relevant photographs of our ancestors at work. Additional short presentation by Stephen Low: “Tracing my Great-Grandmother.”
Contact Info: http://www.torontofamilyhistory.org/
Tags: bonnie bell, stephen low, tinker tailor soldier sailor: mining the internet for occupational photographs, Toronto Branch Meeting, tracing my great-grandmother
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Friday, January 25th, 2013
Date: Monday, February 25, 2013
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: Parkside Centre, Sudbury YMCA, 140 Durham St., South, Sudbury (map)
Topic: “Exploring Online Census Records”
Speaker: Ted McChesney
Brief Overview: Ted will demonstrate where to find census records online, and also discuss the wealth of information that they can provide.
Contact Info: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onogs/ogs.htm
Tags: exploring online census records, Sudbury District Branch Meeting, Ted McChesney
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Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2013
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Oakville Public Library, (second floor auditorium) 20 Navy St., Oakville (map)
Topic: “Ancestors in the Attic”
Speaker: Fawne Stratford-Devai
Brief Overview: Noted author, lecturer and TV panelist, Fawne Stratford-Devai, will discuss her research for the popular History Television series ‘Ancestors in the Attic.’
Contact Info: http://www.halinet.on.ca/sigs/ogshp/index.htm
Tags: ancestors in the attic, Fawne Stratford-Devai, halton-peel branch meeting
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Fish being weighed, Polperro, Cornwall, c.1889
 Source
National Maritime Museum Photostream
 West Looe Quay with women gutting fish, Cornwall, c.1889
Source
National Maritime Museum Photostream
Tags: c.1889, cornwall, fishing, heritage photos, trades & professions
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Date: Saturday, February 23, 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Location: City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive, Room 115, Ottawa (map)
Theme: Annual Potluck.  Coffee, tea and juice provided. Bring your own plate and utensils.
Everyone is asked to bring their favourite book or resource and tell us briefly why it is/was so useful to them.
Everyone Welcome!
Contact Info: http://ogsottawa.on.ca/
Tags: annual potluck, city of ottawa archives, Ottawa Branch, special event
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Bruce & Grey Branch of the OGS will be participating in two special events this February:
Event #1:
BGOGS will be participating in Family Day at the LDS Family History Centre. Just Starting? Have a pile of info you don’t know what to do with? Need help? Just need to organize? Come and let us point you in the right direction.
Date: Monday, February 18, 2013
Location: LDS Family History Centre, 490 2nd Ave., South East, Owen Sound (map)
Event #2
BGOGS will be attending the “Black History Event” at Grey Roots instead of their monthly general meeting.
Date: Saturday, February 23, 2013
Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location: Grey Roots Museum and Archives, 102599 Grey Road 18, R.R. 4, Owen Sound (map)
Contact Info: http://www.bruceandgreygenealogy.com/
Tags: black history event, bruce & grey branch, Family Day, grey roots museum and archives, LDS Family History Centre, special events
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Herring girls, Scarborough, Yorkshire, c.1910
Source
National Maritime Museum Photostream
Fishermen with lobster pots, Sheringham, Norfolk, c.1903
Source
National Maritime Museum Photostream
Tags: England, fishing, heritage photos, herring girls, lobster pots, norfolk, trades & professions, yorkshire
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Monday, January 21st, 2013
Welcome to a new week of heritage photos and a new trade/profession. This week we are going to take a look at Fishing.
Our first photo is from Devon, England:
Cockle woman, Exmouth, Devon, c.1906
Source
National Maritime Museum Photostream
Our 2nd photo is from Folkestone, Kent:
Fisherman, c.1900
Source
National Maritime Museum Photostream
Tags: devon, fishing, heritage photos, kent, trades & professions
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