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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Monday, Set 12, 2016, 7 pm: EssexOGS members and guests head to the Comber & District Historical Museum (10405 HWY 77) . The Comber Museum members will provide a tour as well as information on local family histories and resources. If you would like to carpool from the […]
Cemetery Registration Project Update June 29 2016 From Diane Clendenan and Marjorie Stuart Co-Chairs OGS/OHS Cemetery Preservation and Registration Committee Responsibility of ALL OGS Members To watch for all official cemetery notices in their local newspapers and report these immediately to: (e-mail to info@ogs.on.ca and copy to cemeteries@ogs.on.ca […]
From the Members Only section of the EssexOGS there are a few Sandwich West Public School Attendance records. The attached pdf is one page from the 1900 edition for school number 5. There appeared to be a number of Vollans at the school at the time: Teacher 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 […]