00:35:13 Chris Taylor: I love it! 12-step programs are normally associated with addiction - I guess the hope is that this will become an addiction 00:36:00 Bill: Good one Chris. 00:37:36 Tom Trottier: Writing down - how best? Onenote? index cards? 00:42:58 Tom Trottier: DNA via 123, etc.? 00:46:08 Alan German: Ontario Ancestors - Ottawa Branch Ottawa Branch is one of over 30 Branches of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca 00:49:48 Tom Trottier: Mormon libraries too.... My mom spend a lot of time in the local LDS church 00:50:55 Ed: Many thanks to the two guest speakers for their presentation this evening and for their time away from their families to help us find our families. 00:52:50 Timothy: Family Trees on Ancestry.com and Family Search can contain good information but I've also seen some trees on "drugs". Have to take as grain of salt as well.. 00:53:54 Alan German: Are you thinking of joining OPCUG? Right now, we have a very special membership offer. 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Join OPCUG today and obtain all the benefits of membership for a full two years! 00:54:27 Ed: How does one join? 00:55:02 Tom Trottier: I've heard there is a very complete computerized record of families of the province of Quebec over almost 400 years 00:55:21 Alan German: @ed - https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ 00:55:37 Chris Taylor: @Ed - see https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ You can click the Paypal link and choose to pay by credit card or Paypal account 01:04:58 Tristan: Just found this GEDCOM capable open source genealogical research software that could be interesting to check out. https://gramps-project.org/blog/ 01:09:04 Timothy: LDS had created the software Personal Ancestral File (PAF) and GEDCOM. 01:11:04 Tom Trottier: What's the longest verified family tree? 01:11:21 Mark Cayer: Funny DNA story ... a pair of identical twins from here in Ottawa submitted DNA to a few sights and many reported back completely different DNA profiles ... 01:12:21 Stew Bruce: @Tom You might want to think about the Japanese Royal Line 01:13:10 Susan Duncan: any suggestions for also linking to old photographs (I inherited the old family photos) 01:13:57 Alan German: @Tom https://www.oldest.org/culture/family-trees/ 01:14:36 Tom Trottier: Canada archives here in Ottawa - what are they good for? 01:17:31 Pierrette Bergeron QC: Many thanks for this presentation. 01:17:38 Jocelyn Doire: Beechwood cemetery has a very interesting book that describe the history of many people buried there that were important for the whole area 01:19:15 Bill: Thank you so much Heather and Mike. Excellent presentation. Very interesting and helpful. It has proven to be helpful lately within our own family. 01:19:42 E O'Driscoll: Excellent presentation. I didn't know about TONI. 01:19:51 Lawrence Patterson: Nicely done Mike & Heather, thank you for presenting. 01:21:15 Mark Cayer: Thanks for the presentation. I know many people use tombstones as a source of info from back in the days of the "Family Plot" 01:23:11 Bob Gowan: Mark - many cemeteries have been photographed and indexed. Try FindAGrave and BillionGraves websites. 01:24:05 Tom Trottier: Thanks Mike & Heather! 01:24:17 Mark Cayer: The trick with the cemeteries is to try and determine which churches are connected to them and hold nrecords. 01:25:35 Timothy: Peel Region Archives is in Brampton and the collection is Perkins Bull. 01:27:08 Alan German: British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa https://www.bifhsgo.ca 01:27:49 Alan German: FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/en/ 01:28:54 Alan German: Ancestry Library: Available for in-library use only https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/content/ancestry-library 01:28:59 Tom Trottier: https://www.genealogiequebec.com/en/tools 01:29:36 Tom Trottier: "All of Quebec's baptisms and deaths 1621-1861 All of Quebec's Catholic marriages 1621-1918 All of Quebec's Protestant marriages 1760-1849 1,550,000 Quebec marriages from between 1919 and today" 01:29:36 Wayne: Thanks to Heather and Mike for the excellent presentation. 01:29:49 Alan German: Quebec Family History Society https://www.qfhs.ca 01:31:03 Tom Trottier: No pharaohs? 01:32:20 Timothy: I actually know someone who is from the Russian Royal family. 01:37:08 Mark Cayer: Old Ship registers with Passenger Lists?? 01:37:48 Stew Bruce: The CanadianMilitary cemetary is a section of Beechwood 01:39:43 Alan German: https://canadianheadstones.ca/wp/ 01:40:16 micheline: The College of Arms, or Heralds' College, a royal corporation consisting of professional officers of arms, with jurisdiction over England, Wales, Northern Ireland and some Commonwealth realms in UK has alleged family tree of parts of my family back to around 1400. 01:41:27 micheline: But I find stories about your family members more interesting than dates. 01:42:16 Alan German: https://pier21.ca 01:42:27 Timothy: Dates for when birth certificates, death, cenenus and other official docs are released to the public vary across the country. Birth for example is about 100 years in Ontario. 01:43:33 Alan German: https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/ellis-island-castle-garden-immigration 01:43:42 Mark Cayer: Andf of course many immigrants hade there names "localized" upon entry to North America. 01:44:39 Jocelyn Doire: in order to protect oneself against id thieves, what should and should not be published? 01:44:53 Tom Trottier: Passports a 20th century invention 01:47:09 Ma Vo: in some cases, the spelling of names was determined by the teachers (nuns) of the day 01:48:22 Jocelyn Doire: one tidbit of info, many names in French ends in LX, which is silenced, such as Proulx and Groulx, the reason was they could not write, so for official papers they were writing their name plus a line, and then they were signing with an X, so when it got transcribed, GROU | X, it became Groulx 01:49:32 E O'Driscoll: I have to leave the group but what a great presentation! One million thanks! 01:51:09 Timothy: Newspaper Obits contain a lot of information. 01:51:40 Alan German: Our next Q&A session will commence at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, February 16th. Questions on any computer-related issues are welcome, as are mini-presentations on your favourite computer program or on an interesting topic that you would like to share with the group? Similarly, if you have a question about anything that would fit into our "Computer Basics" segment send that along too. No question is too basic. If you don't know the answer, it is practically certain that there are others who also don't know. But, if nobody asks the question, we won't know to provide the answer... Send your questions, or the details of what you would like to share, or answers to the above-noted questions to: SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 01:51:49 Gail: Thank you so much for the great presentation! 01:52:32 Timothy: Great presentation. I did learn some things. 01:53:11 Alan German: Ontario Ancestors Conference 2022 https://conference2022.ogs.on.ca 01:53:31 Tom Trottier: https://www.ottawalibrary.org/genealogy 01:53:57 Tom Trottier: (Kansas) 01:54:18 Tom Trottier: https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/category/subjects/genealogy 01:54:22 Vivian: An earlier Opcug speaker about 5-6 years ago, did a talk on geneology, maybe that has basic information. 01:56:29 Bob Gowan: Thanks Mike and Heather ! 01:56:29 Chris Taylor: Resource list from past presentation on genealogy: Nov 9, 2016 Doug Gray, Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society An Introduction to Genealogy - Exploring Current Techniques, Key Tools, and Resources https://opcug.ca/presentations/Genealogy-sites.pdf 01:56:46 Mark Cayer: Thanks and good night.