Venue: Quinte West City Hall Library
7 Creswell Drive, Trenton, Ontario

Probate records (the calendars and the wills themselves) are a cost-effective way of expanding your family tree to the aunts, uncles and cousins of each generation as well as going both forwards and backwards in time. Case studies to identify the people named in wills from the pre-civil registration period to the present day illustrate solving a number of genealogical problems, including finding a daughter who "disappeared", identifying someone who died away from home, finding where someone was born abroad and identifying the father of an illegitimate child.
Linda Reid is a retired librarian who lives in Toronto, Ontario. She has been researching her British roots for 25 years. Since 2004 she has been program co-ordinator for Toronto Branch of OGS. In 2003 she started the Branch's Electronic Bulletin, an email service in which she updates Toronto Branch members on events and new resources. She also teaches genealogy courses for Toronto Branch and has spoken at conferences and workshops. For 14 years she has been a volunteer in the Toronto Family History Centre.

Venue: Quinte West City Hall Library
7 Creswell Drive, Trenton, Ontario

The War of 1812 was a border dispute between England and the United States. Issues such as borders; land settlement and pension records (on both sides of the border) of participants in the war of 1812 and other wars; immigration and migration; and genealogical resources in areas bordering eastern Ontario as well as in Ontario will be among the topics covered by speakers at the Conference.

For more information visit www.ogs.on.ca/conference2012

Venue: St. Lawrence College
100 Portsmouth Avenue, Kingston, Ontario

Doors Open Ontario 2012

For more information visit Doors Open Ontario

Venue: Quinte West City Hall Library
7 Creswell Drive, Trenton, Ontario

10 am
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4 pm