Date/Time
Date(s) - 23 October 2023
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Categories
Find your Waterloo County/Region Ancestors at the Kitchener Public Library! – Karen Ball-Pyatt
Learn about the resources to support your Waterloo County/Region genealogy and local history research in the Grace Schmidt Room of Local History, with Karen Ball-Pyatt, Local History Librarian, Kitchener Public Library.
6 December 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Technology to the Rescue: Tools Every Genealogist Needs in Their Tool Box – Linda Debe Co-hosted with Wellington Branch, Hamilton Branch and Haldimand-Norfolk Branch Attendees will learn how to work smarter, not harder with free tools from programs to extensions, to built-in features from their operating system. These technology tools help with processes like organization, […]
23 May 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Where Was Ed Taylor? – Art Taylor How using some of Ed Taylor’s photos, various postcards and greeting cards, census records, and other documents were instrumental in tracing his movements between his birth in 1883 and 1926 when he and his wife built the home in Galt where Art and his mother, aunt, uncle, and […]
22 February 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – William Dickson’s Settlement Scheme: Finding Ancestors in Dumfries Township 1820s-1840s – Dianne Brydon sponsored by Waterloo Branch, co-hosted with Wellington Branch In 1816 William Dickson purchased over 90,000 acres in the area between Galt and Brantford, east and west of the Grand River, and he set about settling his surveyed lots with fellow countrymen from […]
4 November 2023 @ 9:30 am – 4:00 pm – Kitchener Public Library’s 8th Annual Genealogy Fair is this coming weekend at their Central Library location. This event is open to the public and is free of charge. Representatives from our Wellington, Oxford, and London-Middlesex Branches will be there. The keynote speaker this year is Aaron T. Francis, who is the curator of the digital […]
