The Ottawa Branch members’ only web site hosted by OGS has been updated. Now you can access the last four editions of The Ottawa Genealogist and an index to Carleton County Copy Book 5.
The pages on this website are exclusively available for current members of Ottawa Branch. You can become a member by going to OGS website. Click here.
On line copies of our electronic newsletter collection are available for reading on both our computers at the Branch’s library. Located in the City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood. Click here for location details.
The collection contains over 225 publications from 27 organizations and is growing. Click here for a complete list.
The electronic newsletters page has been updated to include all newsletters on our website. There are currently over 225 titles from 27 different organizations. This list will continue to grow.
Ottawa Branch member Allan Lewis has a large web site for history and genealogy in the Ottawa area. It is located at www.bytown.net and consists of about 1,600 web pages (so far). The site has a dedicated Google search engine on every page, where visitors are able to search for surnames, geographic locations or subject matter. It also covers immigration from the U.K and Ireland as well as emigration from Ontario to the United States and Western Canada in the 1800’s. Visitors are able to contact others who fall within their circle of family research and, by e-mail to me, can post inquiries and interact with other researchers. This web site is free.
There will NOT be a Gene-O-Rama in 2012 as Ottawa Branch will be co-hosting the annual OGS Conference 2012 in Kingston on 1-3 June 2012. We do not have the volunteers to handle both events. Conference information can be found here.
Ottawa Branch will also be hosting the 2012 Region VIII Genealogy Day on 21 Apr 2012 at the City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive, Ottawa. Speakers will include Rick Roberts of Global Genealogy, Robert Serré of the Gloucester Historical Society and Paulk Henry, the City of Ottawa Archivist. See here for more details .
2012 is an election year for Officers for Region VIII. Do you wish to assist OGS and the Branches in Region VIII? As well as the genealogy community in Region VIII? Consider standing for Director of Region VIII or Secretary. Region VIII consists of Ottawa Branch, Kingston Branch and Leeds & Grenville Branch, as well as Lanark County Genealogy Group, British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa and the Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogy Group. You will need ten OGS members in good standing to sign your Nomination Form (front) & Nomination Form (back) and submit it to chair@ogsottawa.on.ca for election at the upcoming Region VIII Meeting on Saturday, April 21, 2012.
REGION VIII DIRECTOR (two year term) JOB DESCRIPTION
Summary of OGS Directors Duties
REGION VIII SECRETARY (two year term) JOB DESCRIPTION
Summary of OGS Regional Secretary Duties
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!!
| Date | Saturday, March 17, 2011; 1:00-3:30 PM |
| Location | City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive, Room 115 |
| 1:00 | Networking (AKA Beverages and cookies) |
| 1:30 | Upcoming Events and Announcements |
| 1:45 | Discover the World of Webinars! We will showcase some free providers of webinars as well as let you know how to access them from home! |
| Contact | chair@ogsottawa.on.ca |
3 March 2012 1pm to 4 pm
City of Ottawa Central Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive
Presented by Kyla Ubbink and sponsored by Ottawa Branch OGS
How do I store my family documents? How do I save newspaper clippings? Why are my photographs going ‘silvery’? What kind of albums and sleeves should I use? How do I get rid of that musty smell in my books? Help! I have mould, now what?
The answer to all of these questions is applying archival preservation techniques in your own home. Learn how to avoid the potential damage caused by pollutants, poor climate, light, pests, mould, handling and use. Consider the ramifications of disposing or keeping photograph old albums, explore options for digitization, learn what professional treatment can do to save your collections and observe live demonstrations of cleaning books and paper, removing paper clips and staples with minimal damage, removing photographs from ‘magnetic’ or ‘sticky’ album pages, and how to make simple book jackets. Take the opportunity to try some of the methods discussed and get answers to your specific preservation problems.
Accredited with the Canadian Association for Professional Conservators, Kyla Ubbink has over ten years experience specializing in the treatment of book and paper artefacts and the preservation of archival collections. Graduating from Museum Studies in 2001, Mrs. Ubbink began her career fulfilling contracts in the Library and Archives Canada’s Conservation Laboratories where she worked until establishing her own business in 2005. Ubbink Book & Paper Conservation provides services to institutions, galleries, antiquities dealers, collectors, researchers and genealogists. Mrs. Ubbink is also a part time preservation instructor for Algonquin College’s Archives and Records Management Program, provides workshops and lectures for community groups, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Association for the Conservation of Cultural Property.
Cost: $20.00 per person
Registration is limited and the Deadline for Registration: 24 February 2012
Please make cheques payable to “OTTAWA BRANCH, OGS”
Payment must accompany RegFormv1.
Registration Form available at http://ogsottawa.on.ca/
For more information: pastchair@ogsottawa.on.ca
Region VIII Ontario Genealogical Society
AGM and Genealogy Day
hosted by Ottawa Branch OGS
Saturday, April 21, 2012
City of Ottawa Central Archives
100 Tallwood Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
All Registrants will be eligible for a draw for $50 off the cost of registration at OGS Conference 2012
Join us at the new City of Ottawa Archives at 100 Tallwood Drive, located on the southwest corner of Woodroffe Avenue and Tallwood Drive. Tallwood Drive is the western extension of Meadowlands Drive, from Woodroffe Ave to Centrepointe Drive. The entrance to the parking lot is from eastbound Tallwood Drive. Free parking is available in the lot.
9:30-10:00 Check-in. Coffee and tea will be available on arrival.
Speakers include Robert Serré, Rick Roberts and staff from the City Archives. Lunch is included in the price of admission. The City Archives will be open 10am to 5pm for research as well.
See the Flyer and Registration Form for more details.
Marketplace will feature Global Genealogy as well as the member organizations of Region VIII and some of the local heritage organizations.
Cost: $25 including lunch.
The building is a scent-free environment. Some staff have a severe allergic reaction to scents and fragrances. We urge people to use unscented products and to avoid perfumes, body spray and other fragrances.
Free parking is available in the lot but spaces are limited. There is three- hour parking on Avenshire Street. OC Transpo buses number 94, 95, 156, 172, 174, 178 stop at the corner of Tallwood and Woodroffe. For more information about parking arrangements, please contact the security desk at 613-580-2424 extension 39731. All participants need to register at the security desk when they enter and sign out when they leave.
The building is only equipped with hydration station, not water fountains. Participants need to bring their own water bottle to refill.
On Saturday, November 26, 2011, Sandra Joyce will read from her book “The Street Arab – The Story of a British Home Child” from 7 – 9 pm at the Collected Works Bookstore and Coffee Bar at 1242 Wellington Street, Ottawa. The book was launched as part of the celebrations of the British Home Child Day on September 28 at Upper Canada Village.
Sandra Joyce was unaware until the death of her father in 2002, that he was a home child. She and her sister found a family history in Scotland as a result of the records they discovered through their research. After uncovering her father’s story, Joyce was left wondering “how many other home children had similar circumstances.” She wrote the historical fiction novel for “all those who suffered the silent stigmatism associated with home children.” Incorporating various events and circumstances uncovered in her research, Joyce has woven a story that could representative of any number of home children.
Any person interested in British Home Children should find this evening of interest as Sandra Joyce will discuss her own story and how her research led her to write this book.
We continue to seek volunteers to work on your Board or on other tasks for the Branch. The descriptions of the Board positions are listed at http://ogsottawa.on.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/OB-Job-Descriptions-2010web.pdf. Most of these jobs will require 5-6 hours of work per month.
For those of you willing to do something less onerous, there are a number of other tasks:
1. Program Committee: We hold ten general meetings per year, which require a speaker. The committee is responsible to solicit suggestions for speakers and then arrange their attendance. Much of this can be done from a distance with other members filling in with the local requirements. The more volunteers for the committee, the less work for each
2. Library Volunteer Coordinator: We have about 24 volunteers who spend a few hours in the City Archives each month to help visitors to our library. The schedule has been established but there are often changes needed to meet personal needs. Most changes are handled between the volunteers. There are also a couple of empty slots on the schedule that are filled on an ad hoc basis by the volunteers. We need somebody who can keep track of the changes, make sure that the volunteers are reminded of the changes, nag the volunteers to fill the empty slots, advise Archives staff of the changes, etc. This can all be handled by e-mail. If there is a need to meet with staff, I or another local members will be able to do that.
3. TONI Coordinator. The Ontario Name Index is a project of the Society and each branch needs to have a Coordinator.
4. Assistant webmaster: Our webmaster has set up the website to allow Board members and other volunteers to amend the parts that pertain to them. However, not all the volunteers have the requisite computer skills and the webmaster does not have the time to do it all himself. If you are familiar with WordPress, or would like to learn, you could be brought up to speed and given the access to allow you to handle the changes needed. This includes such items as posting meeting details, updating the list of volunteers, etc.
5. Cemetery Committee: Although the winter weather limits the seasons for this work, our new Coordinator will need volunteers to transcribe and to help prepare the transcriptions for the publisher. This is not a priority task at this time but we can keep your name until needed.
6. TONI Indexers. The Ontario Name Index (TONI) shows where information about a particular name can be found. The project has barely started and we are looking for individuals: You will take information from a document (the source) and enter it into a spreadsheet, preferably Microsoft Excel.
7 Other projects. Do you have another idea for a project that will help genealogists? We will be willing to help you make it possible.
We are also looking into some other ideas that will encourage attendance at meetings. I still need to sort them out but you may have some ideas of your won. Even a simple task such as bringing the juice and cookies to the meetings would free me from one task. Let me know if you have any questions or any other ideas. Thanks very much
We are pleased to announce a new publication:
“Ottawa Branch News Issues and Index 1970 – 2008″
Published 2009. $25.00 includes postage, etc
We have converted the library to the Dewey Decimal system. This should make it easier to use the catalogue and to browse the shelves.
Welcome to the new website. We have added new features and capabilities. Read the rest of this entry »