Family History Course

Norm Crowder - presenter

Montgomery Branch, Royal Canadian Legion
Downstairs study room, 330 Kent St., Ottawa

Saturdays April 1, 15, 22, 29, and May 6, 2000: 9 am - noon

with mid-week visits to Ottawa City Archives, The National Library and Archives of Canada and the Mormon Church Family History Centre, Ottawa

The course presentations are accompaniedwith a 3-ring binder with copious reference materials, split as follows:
Section1: Basic Reference Material relating to the lectures
Section2: Material from the Family History Centre, MormonChurch
Section3: Materials relevant to searching in the BritishIsles

A Detailed Table ofContents is found at the beginning of each section, and in the pocket inside the back cover a set of tabs has been included for further indexing as you wish, together with other useful items - such as a pencil, nametag and blank lined writing paper. Pencils are often preferred to pen, which are forbidden in certain libraries and archives. You may wish to study the material prior to presentation. In this way you can prepare questions to be discusssed at later sessions. A Questionnaire will be distributed prior to the end of the course, for future planning purposes.

The scope of the five pesentations, subject to minor change, is :
#1 - April 1 - Principal records for genealogical research - where to find them;what's good and what's not. Federal, provincial and local jurisdiction for records. Getting started and cooperative research. Preserving your records.
#2 - April 15 - Records of our ancestors in Canada - where they settled, what they did and where they went. Land, settlement, census, military, civil,church, cemetery, newspaper, and estate records.
#3 - April 22 - Where did our ancestors come from and how did they get here - passenger,immigration, naturalization records. Can we pursue our research intheir homelands?
#4 - April 29 - Keeping track of your research findings - cards and computers. Getting help - membership in organizations and hiring professionals. Availablehandbooks at various levels.
#5 - May 6-Putting it together- what do you do with all that information you have gathered? If you do not publish, will all of your work perish? Alternative ways of preserving your data. Numbering systems - are they necessary.
Fee: $50 - to Register, mail in form with cheque; attendance limited to 36. Or please email and one will be mailed to you. Each session has a timetable: 9 - 9.10 am Announcements; 9.10 -10.25  First session with 5 min mid-break 10.25 -10.45 Stretch break and light refreshments (provided); 10.45 - 12 noon. Second session with 5min mid-break. The last period of this session may be allocated to queries and assistance.

Norm Crowderretired from Treasury Board, Government of Canada in 1981; he graduated from Queens University in 1947. Heavily involved in family history activities since 1981, he has given many presentations at Genealogical Conferences in both Canada and the US. In addition to giving regular presentations in Ottawa for BIFHSGO and OGS, he gives presentations for Elderhostel groups and others. He has a number of specialist publications, which relate to his specialist interests: Ontario especially Renfrew County; NY and VT Loyalists from 1774; Loyalist soldiers, and Que/Ont settlers in Canada 1775-1850.  He is on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the National Archives of Canada, and recently organized a pilot project there with volunteers to index genealogical material for the web. He was awarded a Citation of Recognition by the Ontario Genealogical Society in Spring 1999, and has been elected to the BIFHSGO Hall of Fame - Fall 1999.
Course sponsored by British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa, with assistance from the Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society.
Course co-ordinated by Hugh Reekie, 164 Bayswater Ave, Ottawa On K1Y2G3, ph 613-728-5343 fax 613-728-9143 emailh.reekie@ieee.org.