How to locate an ancestor in Ontario, Canada West or Upper Canada (when you don’t know where they lived)
Janice Nickerson
Content
Welcome
1m 31s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 3s
Introduction
1m 40s
Background
4m 26s
Strategies
4m 4s
Websites
14m 45s
Sources
17m 56s
Announcements / prizes
9m 35s
Questions / answers
30m 45s
About this webinar
This webinar will provide strategies and resources to help you discover where your ancestor lived in Ontario, Canada West or Upper Canada, when you don’t have a specific place of origin. These include the types of records you should search in your ancestors’ place of later settlement, as well as records that are specific to Ontario (which, depending on the time period, might be called Ontario, Canada West or Upper Canada) research. As the focus here is on locating your ancestor, we will focus on province-wide records and indexes. We will not cover the many records and indexes that are useful to the genealogist once the place of residence is known. Handout materials will include references for specific publications and records.
\nAbout the speaker
Professional genealogist Janice Nickerson loves a good challenge whether it’s identifying elusive ancestors, tracking disappearing descendants or telling richer family stories. In addition to helping ...
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Comments (5)
very comprehensive webinar.\n\nVery focused and excellent coverage. Sometimes she spoke a little fast, but I can revisit and listen again with my membership.\n\nVery good Thank you\n\nvery good overview of the major sources available for researcing Ont.\n\nVery helpful! Well-organized, useful information. Looking forward to checking out some of Janice's suggestions.\n\nVery helpful, great list of specific resources, thank you.\n\nVery helpful. Nickerson did a good job of introducing us to many resources.\n\nVery informational. Thanks\n\nVery informative and I loved her Canadian accent!\n\nVery informative and now I have lots of new places to look! Thank you\n\nvery informative and the handout is spectacular Thank You Janice\n\nvery informative and well presented... didn’t realize it was only going to cover earlier time period, which isn't relevant to my research\n\nVery informative\n\nVery informative!\n\nVery informative! I have new places to check for my ancestors.\n\nVery informative! I’ll be joining! \n\nVery informative! Learnt a lot!\n\nVery informative!!\n\nVery informative, I learned lots.\n\nVery informative, very well organized, extremely useful information. Thank you. I would love to have something similar about Manitoba and the other western provinces. \n\nVery informative.\n\nVery informative. Thank you.\n\nVery informative. \n\nvery informative. Thank you\n\nVery informative... Thank you\n\nVery interesting\n\nvery interesting and informative\n\nVery interesting and informative.\n\nVery interesting presenter with a huge amount of information. May have been helpful in doing a walk through case study to demonstrate how to search some of the resources listed - but time constraints may not have allowed for it.\n\nvery interesting thankyou\n\nVery interesting, lots of information. Thank you\n\nVery knowledgeable and interesting.\n\nvery thorough and very clear voices and powerpoints . Would Like to know more about townships and maps of concessions and bit more about that sometime e.g nam s of townships where people settled like loyalists\n\nVery thorough research, and so helpful for researching my mother's first husband, a RCAF pilot who was adopted into a family as a baby. His plane was shot down over the North Sea six weeks after they married. He was never found.\n\nVery through. Lots of good references.\n\nvery useful back ground information & links\n\nVery useful information on researching in Ontario. Glad you are doing the Oh Canada series!\n\nvery useful information presented\n\nVery well done\n\nVery well done. Very clear speaker who was very well organized. \n\nvery well organized and presented/ lots of info\n\nVery well presented. Glad to get her references to the various archival holdings\n\nVeryinteresting, and informative. Thanks.\n\nWealth of resources\n\nWell done.\n\nwell formatted & presented. Lots of info.\n\nWell organized and concise. Excellent handout! Thanks!\n\nWell organized and much information. Took notes fast. \n\nWell organized speaker, relevant topic for those of us searching for ancestors who first lived in Canada. As always, no disappointments with Legacy Family Tree Webinars. Looking forward to the remaining webinars in the Canada series. Thank you.\n\nWell organized. Lots of useful content. Very much looking forward to the August Legacy Webinar on Ontario Genealogical research, as well as all of the other webinars in the Canada series. Thank you Legacy. \n\nWell presented and logical. Great sources. Really enjoyed the session.\n\nWell presented and very organized handout. \n\nWell presented with great information that I didn't know about.\n\nWell presented.\n\nWonderful handout, Janice. Thanks so much. Looking forward to your next presentation. Thank you, Legacy, for offering this Canadian series. As a transplanted American now living in Ontario, I've discovered over the past 40 years that each Province is VERY UNIQUE and VERY INTERESTING. I hope you'll continue offering more Province-specific webinars. Thanks.\n\nWonderful presentation!\n\nWonderful presenter and learned a great deal! \n\nWow! What a lot of information is out there! Thanks!\n\nWow, this webinar really delved deeply into Canadian sources, including the subtle details for how to find what you’re looking for. Janice seems to know all the tricks! Thank you so much for the O Canada series that I’m finding to be essential for my Canadian family research as well as my Irish family that came through Canada and went on to the US.
Quite a few sources with which I was unfamiliar, thank you!\n\nReally informative. Thanks\n\nShe is so knowledgeable and shared herself so easily, the websites are fantastic. \n\nShe was very informative and I so appreciated her approach. I am looking forward to her lecture this fall. \n\nSo informative, please keep up the Canadian Series. I plan to re-watch it several times.\n\nSo many sources to check out!\n\nSo much great information! Thank you.\n\nSo much information !!\n\nSo much information! I will be reviewing this one again in the library!\n\nThank you so much!\n\nSoooo interesting and Janice is sooo knowledgeable. Thanks, Janice for a super webinar. Thanks Marian for picking my name for a door prize. Well done!\n\nLooking forward to use my free membership immediately. \n\nSuch a wealth of information! Janice Nickerson was a pure delight and a real door-opener to archival resources and publications. \n\nsyllabus looks good but rapid speaking hard to understand\n\nThank you!\n\nThank you! Just wish I could have seen some pictures.\n\nThank you. So much information I will need to listen again.\n\nThanks for adding Canadian information to your list.\n\nThanks for the References.\n\nThanks so much for providing Canadian genealogy info, esp presented by such a knowledgeable expert!\n\nThanks so much for this presentation. Really appreciate the information that Janice Nickerson shared. Most of my research has been in Quebec, but more and more I am finding a few families who were in Ontario.\n\nThanks, very informative, while listening to the questions I found more records on my Scottish family that arrived in Canada about 1850's, still searching for shipping records\n\nThe presenter was clearly very informed about her topic and showed a wonderful passion for genealogy.\n\nThe presenter was so well organized that even though a lot of what she was referring to me was new, it all made sense! Her powerpoint notes made a great framework for the information she discussed. I can't think of any way this could have been better! I have several strategies now for finding those elusive early Upper Canada residents and I can't wait to get underway!\n\nThe webinar today was very informative and Janice is a wonderful presenter. Her instrucions and information were easy to follow.\n\nThe webinar was clear and concise. Well done.\n\nThe webinar was excellent and Janice's answers to the many questions at its end were also very informative.\n\nThis was great! With all these new resources I've got a lot of work ahead of me.
I hope we get a similar webinar for the Quebec area\n\nI learned more about things I thought I already knew! Clearly stated.\n\nI live in Ontario, research in Ontario and am a long-time member of OGS BUT Janice mentioned some websites I had never heard of before. Great presentation! Great info! Well presented!\n\nI loved all the information on Ontario Canada. I want to research more in that area. \n\nI thought this was an excellent presentation.\n\nI wasn't able to listen to the entire webinar, but I got some very valuable information from the portion I heard. It was very well presented -- straightforward and clear presentation of the information without a lot of extraneous talking. Very well done!\n\nI'd like a webinar about Maritime records from Canada and the Great Lakes. \n\nInformation was great.\n\nInformative, well organized and presented\n\nInteresting, informative, well organized. Thank you.\n\nIt is good to have this info in my toolbox. You never know when it may come in handy. Thanks.\n\nIt was a lot of information to take in at once. But great ideas to start drilling down into my research.\n\nIt was very interesting and I enjoyed it very much Thank you\n\nI've been doing Ontario research for years, but learned several new sources. You can teach an old dog new tricks:-)\n\nJanice was very informative and the handout will be a great resource. Thank you!\n\nJanice was fantastic. Learned so much. Can't wait for her webinar in August.\n\nJanice was knowledgeable and sincere\n\nJanice was very informative; lots of valuable and previously unknown information given. Thank you!\n\nJanice, thank you for the very informative content provided in both your presentation and handout!!! :)\n\nJanice's webinar was excellent in every aspect. I especially appreciate the handout and ability to save the Chat. Interesting Q & A session, too. Kudos to Marian, for very effective and welcoming hosting. \n\nLearned about lots of new sources - much thamks!\n\nList of resources is wonderful. Thank you, Janice.\n\nLiving in the States, and searching for an unknown Canadian citizen birthfather, I had no idea WHERE to start, so this has been most helpful! Thanks!\n\nLook forward to 20 August webinar\n\nLooking forward to a similar webinar about Quebec I have some loyalist ancestors who settled near Montreal after the American Revolution.\n\nLooking forward to purchasing annual subscription to Legacy webinars again... my husband, too! We miss Geoff here in Arizona at the West Valley Genealogical Society. \n\nLot of info and good length.\n\nLots of excellent information! Thanks!\n\nLots of good info. Thanks.\n\nLots of good information and sources provided to help with Ancestry search. Will help me to get started on finding some of the details.\n\nLots of good possibilities of alternative sources of information\n\nLots of great information. Thank you.\n\nLots of helpful information\n\nLots of information Thank you\n\nLots of information and presentation was exceptional.\n\nLots of really good information. Nicely presented.\n\nLots of sources covered for people to further their research.\n\nLots of useful information!\n\nLove the explanation of general info like county/township/concession/lots breakdown and how maps of the lots are noted. Great seminar. Thanks!\n\nLove the O Canada webinars. Learned a lot today.\n\nLoved it! Very informative about early records sets that aren't easy to find!\n\nmuch needed information was discussed as my Scottish and French ancestors moved on from Quebec\n\nMy first webinar and it was quite helpful as I start searching for ancestors. thank you.\n\nMy relatives are more recent and this was more ancient.\n\nNot being from Canada, Janice introduced me to a number of websites I did not know existed. Thank you, it was very informative and hopefully, very helpful. \n\nProvided access information which I find helpful.
I can't wait to start digging into some of these resources.\n\nExcellent. \n\nExcellent. Can't wait to print the syllabus (I am a member). My father was born in Alberta, Canada; my grandmother was born in Mountain Grove, Ontario, Canada! I love the O'Canada series.\n\nExcellent. Information-rich. Thank you very much!\n\nExcellent. Thank you!\n\nexellent\n\nExellent information\n\nFantastic I think I shall listen to this again.\n\nFantastic - Thank you!\n\nLooking forward to Janice's next presentation. \n\nFantastic!\n\nFantastic! It'll take me hours and hours to go through and apply all my notes and the handouts. Thanks so much for all the information.\n\nFound it gave me some new ideas of where I might find some info for people I cannot find\n\nGlad there will be more Canadian webinars. Any covering border crossings between US and Canada?\n\nGood info, especially what records are and are NOT available at the various website, or only partially available. I have noticed that p2 of the agricultural census of certain years were not on ancestry, but happy to know I can find them via the Archives website. Thank you Janice and FTWebinars.\n\ngood information, Janice Nickerson is very knowledgeble.\n\nGood overview\n\nGot lots of ideas for searching for an 1820s marriage record in Ontario\n\nGreat content. We want more from Janice! Moderator's use of chat was outstanding!\n\ngreat handout\n\ngreat info!\n\nGreat info. Pleasant, knowledgeable!\n\nGreat information\n\nGreat information - thank you!\n\nGreat information on additional sites to visit.\n\nGreat information on where to search for my Ontario ancestors\n\ngreat information to help locate Ontario ancestors\n\nGreat information to use for my searching! I found Irish ancestors that came to Michigan from Canada and I wondered why. Now I better understand why.\n\nGreat information! Thank you!\n\ngreat information, well spoken...clear presentation\n\nGreat information. \n\nGreat presentation and speaker. \n\nGreat presentation. Hope to be able to attend Ms. Nickerson's next one in August\n\ngreat presentation. So well organized and thorough\n\nGreat resources!\n\nGreat seminar. Thanks!!\n\nGreat sources given to go check out! \n\nGreat Webinar\n\nGreat webinar on how to find ancestors in Ontario, Canada West, or Upper Canada.\n\nGreat webinar. Looking forward to using everything I learned today.\n\nGreat webinar. There seems to be lots to learn about Canada. Would like to know more about immigration etc. in a later webinar\n\nGreat!\n\nGreat. Got some clues as to how to sort my wife's Canadian family roots
A great road map to locating some ancestors and finding out info about other ones.\n\nA lot of information and sources. Nice to be able to go slow enough to understand more of what is being covered. I have a lot to do before I can get to a lot of this, even though it was my own grandparents who emigrated to the US. I wish more records were available in CA online. \n\nA wonderful snapshot of ontario ancestry resources that are available today. Thanks !\n\nAm looking forward to investigating these resources - thank you for your fine work!\n\nAnother great great webinar. Thanks to all of you at Legacy to make possible that canadian series. The first one help me and this one is also helpful since I now have knew places to look at and may be find more informations on my ancestors. Thanks again I have a good week end.\n\nAppreciated the reference to https://news.ourontario.ca/ as I've been looking for a good source for Canadian newspapers.\n\nAs a fellow Ontarian what can I say? Excellent presentation!\n\nAwesome webinar! So much valuable information.\n\nBeen researching Ontario family for many years and still you have spurred me on to dig deeper.\n\nBrilliant webinar on a greatly needed area for genealogical research resources.\n\nEnjoyed this. Thank you\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent \n\nExcellent - lots of useful information\n\nExcellent content and presenter. Great slides as well as an extensive handout.\n\nExcellent detail without being overwhelming\n\nExcellent handout!\n\nExcellent information\n\nExcellent information and well-presented!\n\nExcellent information for Ontario research\n\nExcellent information that will help further my research. Great tips and URLs \n\nExcellent information-need more Canadian Webinars\n\nExcellent introduction to Ontario resources! I learned so much. I especially appreciate her thoughtful and helpful answers to the many questions at the end. Looking forward to her next webinar in August!\n\nExcellent pacing by Janice and good overview without detailing down too far. I liked the Q&A. Will join because of the quality of this presentation. Thanks \n\nExcellent presentation and syllabus.\n\nExcellent presentation on the databases. Very informative and I have used them for years.\n\nExcellent presentation. Very informative.\n\nExcellent presentation. Janice is one of the best resources for learning about Ontario resources.\n\nExcellent presenter. I look forward to her presentation in August 2021.\n\nExcellent resource list. Janice is clear and well informed.\n\nExcellent sources of information provided by Janice. Thank you so much!\n\nExcellent speaker great presentation\n\nExcellent speaking style, very knowledgeable.\n\nExcellent webinar chock full of information. I need to listen to it again to catch everything.\n\nThanks to Janice, Marian and Legacy!\n\nExcellent webinar! So many resources I wasn't aware of! Now I know what I'm doing this weekend.\n\nExcellent! Clear, concise--but with enough detail. I had confidence in the expertise of the presenter.