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There are no videos for 2015 meetings. Handouts are only available for two conference presentations and one monthly meeting. To see these handouts, please log in to your membership account.
They Came from Scotland: Tracking Your Scots Emigrant Ancestor
Christine Woodcock
One of the key issues in tracking your Scottish ancestor often involves the gap between finding them in the Canadian records (BMD and census records) and being able to locate them in the Scottish records. While this may seem like a daunting task, it is often less of a challenge and more of a reward if you understand what brought them here in the first place. To do that, we need to understand a little bit of Scottish history. Not back to the beginning of time, just back to the beginning of emigration to the Americas.
Monthly Meetings 2015
14 February 2015
Ed's Story: supporting documents
Brenda Turner
Brenda's husband, Ed Cooke, was born in Lancashire, England, in 1936 as Edwin Bancroft. His parents divorced early during the war, and he arrived in Canada in March of 1947 with his mother, Ida, who had fallen in love with a Canadian bomber pilot based in Yorkshire. Ed lost all contact with his birth father, William Victor James Bancroft, and all of his father's family, as a result of that emigration. In 1997, after his mother's death and his own retirement, Ed began in earnest to search for information about his father and his father's family in Lancashire. The handout contains information about South Africa and Michael Worsnip and his experiences in the fight against apartheid and what he is doing now as a leader in restorative justice.
12 Tips to Help You Find Census Records on Ancestry and Findmypast
Dave Cross
Follow the steps Dave uses when searching for elusive ancestors on census records. Although Dave's presentation was largely based on searching using Ancestry’s searching capabilities, many of these suggestions will likely work on other websites that provide census information.