Thursday, May 16, 2013

Marketplace at the OGS Conference 2013


The marketplace will be open Friday 11:00 a.m.—6:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m., and Sunday 8:30 a.m.—1:00 p.m.

Vendors, heritage organizations and OGS branches will set up displays in Durham College’s largest and newest gym, which is three full courts in total area.

Vendors at Conference 2013 are -

Buisness 

•Ancestry.ca

•Archive CD Books

•The Bookfinder – Fenlon Falls

•Canadiana.org

•Dave Cook, bookseller

•Dundurn Press

•Fading History

•Family History Alive

•Family History Simplified

•FamilySearch.org

•Family Tree Magazine

•George Laidlaw

•Global Genealogy

•Kinfolk Finders

•Linda Corupe, UE

•Marks in Time

•Moorshead Publications

•Multitech Graphics

•National Institute for Genealogical Studies

•Our Digital World

•Pat McGregor Books

•Progeny Genealogy

•Durham County Genealogy

•Strategic Property Solutions

Heritage Groups

•Archives of Ontario

•British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa

•Canadian Friends Historical Foundation

•Guild of One Name Studies

•Newcastle Village and District Historical Society

•Toronto Cornish Association

•Trent Valley Archives

OGS Branches

•Ontario Genealogical Society

•OGS Conference 2014

•Brant CountyBranch

•British Home Child SIG

•Bruce & Grey County Branch

•Durham Region Branch

•Halton- Peel Branch

•Ireland SIG

•Irish Palatine SIG

•Kawartha Branch

•Kingston Branch

•Lambton County Branch

•Leeds & Grenville Branch

•Niagara Peninsula Branch

•Ottawa Branch

•Oxford County Branch

•Quinte Branch

•Simcoe County

•Toronto Branch

•Waterloo Region Branch

To go to the Marketplace, go to www.ogs.on.ca/conference2013/market-place. There is individual websites for each participant.

You can go into the marketplace for FREE, and there will be lots for you to see.

Head of Library and Archives Canada resigns

Daniel Caron, the head archivist of the Library and Archives Canada, resigned Wednesday. He had billed taxpayers nearly $4,500 for personal Spanish lessons.

Caron was appointed head librarian and archivist of Canada in 2009.

To read the complete story, go to www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/05/15/pol-library-archives-daniel-caron-resigns-spanish.html