What's in Your Canadian Genealogy Toolbox?
60-minute presentation with Q&A session and 4-page PDF handout
Audience Level: Beginner -Expert
Summary: Canadian genealogy research takes more than searching the largest databases. Discover useful national, provincial, and local websites for finding records, newspapers, maps, photographs, local histories, and more. Learn what these resources contain, how to search them, and which ones belong in your Canadian genealogy toolbox for your next research question.
Outline:
Understand why Canadian records are distributed across federal, provincial, territorial, municipal, and local repositories rather than housed on a single website. They will be able to identify the most appropriate starting point for a research question based on place, time period, record type, and historical jurisdiction.
Learn how to use Library and Archives Canada as the foundation of Canadian research and how to extend that search through FamilySearch, provincial and territorial archives, BAnQ, Canadiana, Héritage, and subscription databases. Attendees will understand the differences between searchable indexes, archival descriptions, browsable images, digitized publications, and user-contributed information.
The presentation will cover how to locate specialized resources for newspapers, maps, directories, photographs, local histories, military service, Loyalist ancestry, cemeteries, land, and settlement. Attendees will recognize when regional collections such as OurDigitalWorld and Peel’s Prairie Provinces may provide material unavailable through the largest genealogy websites.
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