Using the Hudson Bay Company Records for Genealogy Research
Tara Shymanski
Content
Welcome
22s
Speaker's Introduction
43s
Introduction
10m 1s
Fur Trade Post Maps
1m 13s
Ships' Histories
2m 22s
HBCA Library
3m 17s
Name Indexes
10m 18s
Biographical Sheets
3m 37s
Digitized Microfilm
16m 5s
Announcements / prizes
2m 9s
Questions / answers
4m 13s
About this webinar
Information on fur trade and Indigenous ancestors can be found in the Hudson Bay Company archives. These records contain information on over 300 years of fur trade employees in Canada. Archivists have indexed, microfilmed, and digitized them. This presentation will cover what records are available, where they are found, how to use them, and what genealogy information may be found in them.
About the speaker
Tara Shymanski is a professional genealogist who, at the age of 17, began researching her family history. Her childhood was filled with grandmothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, even a great-great aunt an...
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Comments (55)
Hi Tara, my fellow Northwestern Ontarian! I listened to your Webinar this evening. Well done! This was so informative and interesting. I enjoyed your enthusiasm. I was so pleased to hear the information about the North West Company. Most of my husband's fur trading ancestors were engagees with them but I have never checked out the records available in the HBC Archives. Thank you so much! Susan :-)
Great to see Canadian content in Webtember! HBC was so important to opening the western part of Canada so great to learn more about their records. Very interesting talk with great examples!
Great webinar on the Canadian Hudson Bay and the genealogical records and historical documents of the time.
Interesting and well presented, even though I have no ancestors who were in the HBC.
Very useful.
Well done! Thank you, Tara, for all the information you presented on the Hudson Bay Company and its records. I can't wait to see what I can find for the Pacific Northwest.
Another excellent webinar!! I'm really enjoying webtember!!!!
I learned a lot about research in this class and it was the first time I heard about the Hudson Bay Records. Good info.