School Yearbooks – the Essex County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (collection located in the Family History Reading room, Windsor Public Library) is looking for donations of Windsor & Essex County school yearbooks for indexing, scanning, and adding to the EssexOGS Collection. These books are valuable to […]
Charles Godwin
21 posts
We recently added new books to the Members Only page. The Refugee by Benjamin Drew is a collection of “narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada”. Included are stories from former slaves who settled in Chatham, Buxton, Dresden, Dawn, Windsor, Sandwich, Amherstburg, Colchester and Gosfield. For those with ancestors who […]
http://www.worldometers.info/ Worldometers is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world.
We have two new additions to our library shelves. Come in for a visit! An extract from A Fluid Frontier: Slavery. Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland. Edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost and Veta Smith Tucker. pg 27 ” At the riverfront, vanes of […]
NEW for 2016: Many copies of the EssexOGS Newsletter “Trails” have now been scanned by “Active Members” and posted to the Essex Branch’s ‘members only’ section of the OGS web site: https://www.ogs.on.ca/ The third edition of the 1980 Trails contains a number of names of active council members, guest […]
William Henry Hooker was born 25 Mar 1793 in London England where he married Ann Whittal on 1 Apr 1822. They travelled to Canada shortly after their marriage and their children were born in Quebec. George Henry Hooker , their youngest, obtained 125 acres on Concession 7, Lot 12 in […]
Record #3 from the Early Settlers Binder (EssexOGS collection , WPL , 2nd Floor; or EssexOGS Members Only section of www.ogs.on.ca) – Ezekiel Bowring, submitted 1983 by Dolores Lee of Sarasota Florida (great great grand daughter). Ezekiel married Sarah Munger (Father Henry Munger / Monger from Rockingham Co, […]
David W. Allison (1985), contributed information on William Allison (N. Ireland – d1878, Rochester TWSP, Essex Co.). William (brother to Hug, b.1797) moved from Killeter Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland to Etobicoke TWSP, York Co. about 1847, then moved to Lot 7, Con 9, Mersea TWSP around 1857. William […]
April 2014 – Last night’s meeting highlighted valuable resources and information available in the Windsor-Essex area. French family history resources were highlighted by Margaret Jeffrey from the RFPO La Pionniere du Sud-Ouest. She mentioned they also have some Irish resources included in their Catholic Church records. Update 2016: […]
Guest speaker Heather Colautti from Windsor’s Community Museum discusses the preservation of those important family history mementos. Also, a representative from the Centre de Genealogie, Pionniere du Sud-Ouest will present an overview of their services and resources. Monday, April 14, 7:00 pm, at the main branch of the […]
Welcome back from summer! The EssexOGS fall monthly meetings, open to the public, start again: Monday, September 9th, 2013 at 6:00 PM (Library on summer hours) Topic: COPYRIGHT and Family History Research (GENEALOGY) Copyright do’s and don’t’s and general practices for family historians Presented by: Myra Tawfik. Location: Windsor […]
Saturday September 21st The Diary of Death – A Mystery 200 Years in the Making A 200-year-old diary points the finger at a murderer, but the vital page is stolen before a name is revealed. The inhabitants of this little garrison town (both past and present) will be […]