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Updated 30 November 2007
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- The Banting Homestead is now protected!
By: Dr. Peter M. Banting. In 1999, Edward Banting, the nephew of Sir Frederick Banting died, and bequeathed the more than 100-acre Alliston, Ontario farm and birthplace of Sir Frederick Banting to the Ontario Historical Society (OHS) in the expectation that they would preserve and maintain it for the benefit of future generations. The society had other plans. After an extended battle, The Banting Homestead will now be preserved.
- Adoption records in Ontario are sealed - again!
By: J. Brian Gilchrist. The Ontario government has decided not to appeal a judicial ruling that struck down a new law that would have retroactively opened confidential adoption records. Community and Social Services Minister Madeleine Meilleur said on 13 November 2007, that the government would introduce a new bill next month that would let parents and children involved in past adoptions veto disclosure of information.
- Additions to Online Ontario Marriage Records
By: J. Brian Gilchrist. For those of you good folk using the Ontario [Canada] birth records online from Ancestry please note an important change you will see when you view the actual images.
- Cards our Grandparents Saved By Matthew Cook. I stumbled upon a genealogical and historical goldmine upon a recent visit to my father's old homestead in Ingonish. My aunt lives in the house my grandparents lived in most of their lives and the house gave up some treasures during a recent cleaning. Tucked away in a box, forgotten for the more than twenty years since my grandmother died, were greeting cards my grandparents saved.
- Historic Birthplace of Sir Frederick Banting Threatened By Dr. Peter Banting. About an hour's drive north of Toronto, Ontario is the small rural town of Alliston. On November 14, 1891, on a nearby 100-acre farm a baby boy named Fred was born. In 1921 Fred made a wonderful discovery -- He discovered, isolated and purified a hormone which he first named Isletin, then renamed Insulin. Today, the home where he was born is jeopardy of being destroyed.
- Search Capability of USGenWeb is Improved. By: Daryl Lytton. For the first time in the 10-year history of The USGenWeb Project, a project-wide search is being enabled on a State-by-State basis at USGenWeb Search Us with a great deal of success. The free-access USGenWeb, along with many of the state and county sites and Special Projects, are hosted by RootsWeb.com
- Stories of Love... Well Documented By Library & Archives Canada. The collections of Library and Archives Canada are filled with fabulous romantic treasures! A number of these gems, such as manuscripts including love letters and musical works, have been digitized and made accessible on their website.
- Celebrating Black History Month in Canada A Message from Ian E. Wilson Librarian and Archivist of Canada: "Library and Archives Canada, in co-operation with the Black community in Canada, has much to do to ensure that the record we pass on is truly representative of the Canadian experience, the full, diverse Canadian experience in all of its guises--the good, the difficult, the inherently honest....
- Historic Passenger Lists Going Online. By: UK National Archives press release. U.S. and Canadian citizens can carry out a full online search of all ship passenger records for vessels leaving British ports (England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales) on voyages to North
America and the rest of the world. This first release of the easily-searchable, user-friendly
database covers journeys taken between 1890 and 1899. Over the coming months the database will grow to include all records 1890-1960.
- The British Census: Searching the British Census by David H. Pratt, AG, Ph.D. Researchers of English and Welsh ancestry in the nineteenth and even the late-eighteenth centuries have benefited greatly from the birth of the dynamic duo: civil registration and census enumeration.
- Unraveling a Tattered Genealogical Web by Pat Marshall. About eight years ago, as part of doing research on my husband's family, I decided to look into the family of his only sister's husband. The name I was searching for was POIZER
- Joe Canadian's On The Move by Gayle MacDonald A new family history television show is being produced for the Hisotry Channnel. Guess who is going to be involved?
- AFHS Re-opens Library in Calgary, AlbertaBy Bill Campbell. The ALBERTA FAMILY HISTORIES SOCIETY (AFHS) is about to re-open its newly-expanded Calgary library to meet the needs of this growing community.
- Old Names of Occupations By Dan Burrows. A helpful list for those who have recorded historic names of occupations, but would like to know the modern-day equivilant.
- Finding Your Ancestors in Quebec By: Marielle A. Bourgeois. One day, I wondered if I could find my ancestors who were from the Richelieu River Valley area, in the province of Québec, Canada.
- A Productive French Genealogy-Research Day By: Marielle A. Bourgeois. More than twenty-five years ago I set out to find the roots of my paternal
ancestors in the Richelieu River Valley in the province of Québec, Canada.
- ARCHEION News (Ontario, Canada) By Philippa Cummings. The ARCHEION web site is the Ontario component of a Canadian Archival Information Network. See the list of provinces and territories currently participating in CAIN.
- Massachusetts Vital Records Closing By: Sharon Sergeant. The Massachusetts Genealogical Council (MGC) board has been informed that the MA Department of Health is attempting to get the MA House Bill H5158 passed this week on the third reading in the MA House
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