Archive for March, 2009
Archives of Ontario Moves to York University
31 March 2009
The Archives of Ontario is opening its new, purpose-built facility in north Toronto on April 2nd at 8:30am. The old building at 77 Grenville St., in downtown Toronto will close for its final time at 5:00pm on Thursday, March 26th.
The new address for the Archives of Ontario is:
Archives of Ontario
134 Ian Macdonald Blvd,
Toronto, Ontario
M7A [...]
Posted: March 31st, 2009 under Archives.
Tags: Archives, Ontario
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Ontario Genealogical Society Call For Papers - 2010 Conference
28 March 2009
Posted 16 March 2008
By Paul Jones, Ontario Genealogical Society1 May 2009 (deadline)
Call for Papers
Ontario Genealogical Society Conference 2010
Theme: Essentials, Innovations and Delights
The Ontario Genealogical Society’s Toronto Branch will host the Society’s annual conference on 14-16 May 2010. OGS, founded in 1961, is a not-for-profit organization with more than 4,500 members. The Conference [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2009 under Announcements.
Tags: Announcements, OGS
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Free PDF to Word Doc Converter
22 March 2009
It’s easy to convert Microsoft Word documents to PDF, but what about when you want to go the other way around? Perhaps you have a PDF document that you wish to convert to Word? The Free PDF to Word Doc Converter does that easily on Windows systems.
PDF to Word Doc Converter is [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Banns of Marriage – Meaning for Genealogy
17 March 2009
By Jim Onyschuk
The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as “the banns,” were a religious tradition by which engaged couples had to announce their intention to marry. In Ukrainian it is called “zapovdiv” and in Polish “zapowiedzi”
Normally, for three successive Sundays the Banns were published. This was commonly done by the priest pronouncing from [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2009 under Birth Records.
Tags: banns, marriage, records
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