British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa
Talks in 2010
13 February 2010"Just Names on a List? Let's Take Another Look at Passenger Manifest"
presented by Glenn Wright.
9 January 2010"Murder Most Foul - The Complete Story"
presented by Robert Brown.
Talks in 2009
12 December 2009"Great Moments in Genealogy"
presented by BIFHSGO members.
  • "Finding a Long Lost Great Aunt" by Jane Catterson.
  • "Identifying a Grandfather" by Brian Watson
  • "A Great (SCOTT) Moment" by Ken Harley
  • "Breaching the Ireland Barrier, or Maybe Not" by Willis Burwell
  • "Hold on Tight! - Tickets Please!" by Christine Jackson
14 November 2009"Ships, Masters and Mates"
presented by Barbara Tose.
17 October 2009"I Never Thought of That, A Second Look at Problems"
presented by Lady Teviot.
12 September 2009"Circling the Wagons Around Jack Fraser"
presented by Brian Glenn.
13 June 2009"Great Moments in Genealogy"
presented by BIFHSGO members.
  • "Murder Most Foul", by Robert Brown
  • "Jumping to Conclusions with the IGI", by David Jeanes
  • "Break through to the Present", by Ted Lawrence
  • "A Hollywood Movie Star", by George Swift
  • "Interesting Finds in Unusual Places", by Barbara Tose
9 May 2009"London Ancestors Rest in Peace. But Where?"
presented by John Reid.
4 April 2009"William Morley and Some 17th Century Wills"
presented by Gordon Morely.
14 March 2009"And The Walls Came Tumbling Down"
presented by Sharon Moor.
14 February 2009"The Time of Cholera"
presented by Alison Hare.
10 January 2009"The LDS Pioneering Spirit Continues"
presented by Shirley Ann Pyefinch.
Talks in 2008
20 December 2008"Great Moments in Genealogy"
presented by BIFHSGO members.
  • Irene Ip "Doors Open and There Is My Great-great-grandfather",
  • Hugh Reekie "Some Welsh Surprises",
  • Robert Brown "My Great-great-grandfather Fought With General Sir Rowland Hill",
  • Arthur Owen "An Uncle's Legacy?" and
  • Glenn Wright "Finding Cousin Tony -- A Real Great Moment".
15 November 2008"Why History is Important"
presented by George Laidlaw.
11 October 2008"Jennie's Journey: Reconstructing a Life from Letters & Diaries"
presented by Margaret Burwell.
13 September 2008"Mount Hermon Cemetery, Quebec, Tombstone Inscriptions"
presented by Gordon Morley.
14 June 2008Annual General Meeting, followed by Great Moments in Genealogy
  • Caroline Herbert - “John Henry Kennedy”
  • Marg Burwell - “On-line billing”
  • Dr. David Roger - “Three Old Letters”
  • Hugh Reekie - “The Aberayron Williams East London day trip”
  • Bill Arthurs - “An Emotional Moment in Genealogy: A 911 Death”
10 May 2008"An Unstoppable Force: The Scottish Exodus to Canada"
presented by Lucille Campey.
5 April 2008"The Diary of John Marsh, Seaman, HMS Pylades, 1862-1866"
presented by John Hay.
1 March 2008“The Great Trek”
Presented by David Thomas
9 February 2008“Two Welsh Sea Captains: How the Internet & Volunteer Experts Help the Searching”
Presented by Hugh Reekie
12 January 2008“Where Did She Come From? The Empty Ancestry of Edna May.”
Presented by Robert J. Brown
Talks in 2007
8 December 2007"Great Moments in Genealogy"
Presented by BIFHSGO members Carol Annett, Garfield Clack and Glenn Wright
10 November 2007"In My Father's Footsteps on the Western Front"
Presented by Mary Anne Sharpe
6 October 2007"Ottawa through the Years"
Presented by David Roger
8 September 2007"Genealogy Competitions and the Biography of Robert Down"
Presented by Jane L. Down
9 June 2007AGM and Great Moments in Genealogy
Presented by BIFHSGO members
12 May 2007"Some Offbeat Untapped Genealogy Sources"
Presented by Pat Wohler, CG (C)
7 April 2007"John Green: Whose Father Was He?"
Presented by Alison Hare, CG
10 Mar 2007"Experiences of a Family Historian"
Presented by Tom Rimmer
10 Feb 2007"Sarah Hersey's Diary: The Spirituality of a 19th Century Pioneer Woman"
Presented by Marguerite Evans
13 Jan 2007"Publishing Your Family History: A Case Study"
Presented by John F. Townesend
Talks in 2006
9 Dec 2006More Great Moments in Genealogy
Presented by BIFHSGO members.
4 Nov 2006Ghosts of the Great War
Presented by Tony Atherton of the Ottawa Citizen,
and
"First World War Army Service Records at the UK National Archives"
Presented by Dr. Christopher Watts, FSG.
14 Oct 2006Leave No Stone Unturned!
Presented by Terry Findley - BIFHSGO member.
9 Sep 2006Engineers and Navvies: The Builders of the Rideau Canal.
Christina Tessier, Director, The Bytown Museum
10 Jun 2006Lucille H. Campey introduced the sixth in her series of books on Scottish emigration to Canada, Les Ecossais, The Pioneer Scots of Lower Canada, 1763-1855
13 May 2006Home Children Stories
Presented by Caroline Herbert, Patricia Roberts-Pichette and John Sayers, BIFHSGO Members
8 Apr 2006Family History in the Newspaper
Presented by Ryan Taylor, Genealogical Librarian at the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
11 Mar 2006The Black Swan: Little Used Sources for Family History Research in England
Presented by Gary Schroder, President -Quebec Family History Society
11 Feb 2006 Choosing Genealogy Software: a comparison of Family Tree Maker and The Master Genealogist
Presented by Doug Hoddinott and Douglas Hill, BIFHSGO Members
14 Jan 2006 The Risks & Rewards of Using Commercial Websites for Genealogical Research
Presented by Bob Dawes, BIFHSGO Member
Talks in 2005
10 Dec 2005 Great Moments in Genealogy
- Society Members : Willis Burwell, Ruth Kirk, Patricia Roberts-Pichette, Gordon Taylor, and Betty Warburton
12 Nov 2005 New Departures, Passenger Lists Online from LAC.
Presented by Angele Alain, LAC
15 Oct 2005 Watts and related families in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, 1750-1865, Sources, Approaches, Opportunities. Presented by Robert Watt, BIFHSGO Member and Chief Herald of Canada
10 Sep 2005 BIFHSGO Annual General Meeting, and
The Greatest Canadian and other Great Brits at Beechwood ? Roger Boult, Beechwood Cemetery
11 Jun 2005 Yet More Great Moments in Genealogy
Society Members ...
i) George Swift: The Mystery of Jerome: a case of attempted murder or rural myth?
ii) John Hay: Looking for Family Homes in 18th Century Scotland
iii) Christine Jackson: The Ragman's Children
iv) John Reid: Following Great Uncle John.
14 May 2005 The Not So Impossible John Smith - Alison Hare, BIFHSGO member and Certified Genealogical Records Specialist.
Synopsis: Commonly named ancestors can be the curse of our genealogical lives. But tracing them is not always as hopeless a prospect as it sometimes seems. This genealogical case study describes one genealogist's success in building a detailed picture of an ancestor despite the extreme ordinariness of his name.
9 Apr 2005 From Batoche to Berlin: Documenting Military Service, 1885 - 1918. - Glenn Wright: a historian with Library and Archives Canada and author of numerous publications.
Glenn Wright's Source Notes from the Genorama presentation.
12 Mar 2005 Where does your family history fit? - the Public History perspective. Canadians' awareness of the place of the past in the present has increased with recent media presentations like Canada: A People's History, Historica's Heritage Minutes and others. We see dramatic changes in the ways that people use the past in their everyday lives, one being the pursuit of family history and the personalization of connections to the past.- Del Muise, Department of History, Carleton University
12 Feb 2005 Pitfalls, planning and persistence - ways and means of ordering and processing your information - Hugh Reekie, BIFHSGO member.
8 Jan 2005 Bringing Life to History, Bringing History to Life
Speaker: Charlotte Gray, author of five best-selling books about Canadian history.