Today on Museum Chat Live, two of the St. Catharines Museum’s Collections Technicians, Helen and Sarah, share ideas with your co-host, Sara, on how you can use your #stayhome time to dig into your family history.
Maybe you’ve been avoiding those boxes of old family photos, or that pile a records a family member left to you. Maybe you’ve been wanting to start researching your family history but it seemed like to daunting of a task. Or, you just didn’t have the time. Well, now you do!
Starting a family history project is a great opportunity for you to pass the extra time you are having at home in a meaningful, constructive way and to learn more about your family history.
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Footnotes
Download the inventory template below to help you organize your family photos and records:
Looking to dig deeper and start researching your family history? Here are a few free online resources you can use:
Hello from Colorado, USA! I enjoy reading about St Catharines. Thank you!
I noted a typo in the ST Catharines Museum online collection entry about Thomas Moore Benson. He married Edith McCaul who was the daughter of Rev. John McCaul, not Rex.
I became familiar with St. Catharines in 2015 because I wrote a novel, Alma Mater, that features the daughters of Thomas Burns, Esq. along with Margaret McFarland of Port Robinson, and the Fuller girls (Laura married Thomas Moore Benson) as well as a girl from Toronto, Harriet Taylor. It’s available on Amazon. I don’t know how to get it over the border to you unless I order author copies to be sent to the museum. I would donate them for sale. Please advise!! Pamela Borden Heckert
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