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Year 2020
On Tuesday, April 14, 2020 the- Field Trip to the Toronto Family History Centre was cancelled due to the corona virus pandemic
On Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - Maria Rypan spoke on- The Suitcase Returns to Ukraine Maria spoke about the many artifacts that record the efforts and constant issuance of documents it took to get the Husar family to escape the horrors of war. Graphic illustrations of how Galicia functioned. The suitcase they used throughout their journey was returned to Ukraine where their trek began.
On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 – Professor Maxim Tarnawsky spoke- What's So Special About Galicia? His talk explored the cultural representations of Galician uniqueness in a variety of national cultures.
On Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - Eva Kujawa give a presentation on: An Introduction to researching your East European Ancestors.
She
presented:
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A historical overview of Eastern Europe, covering the
majority of countries, and how they morphed through divisions
and border changes, from wars and battles into the countries
that we have in today's world.
- The impacts of the various cultures that share the borders of this magnificent area.
- The various research resources,
- How to plan research and address potential challenges and solutions for this type of genealogical research.
- Topics like, what is in a name, naming traditions, languages, the various handwriting styles as well as the various types of records and that can be located.
Year 2019
On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 – Our Video Night on How YouTube can Help Your Genealogy & (2) - our Annual Christmas Pot Luck Party
Did you know that YouTube has over 5 BILLION available videos? Did you know that each minute of the day 400 hours of videos are being uploaded to the YouTube channel? Next to Google, YouTube is the largest search engine on the planet. The advantage of YouTube is when you select one video, Youtube will suggest additional videos on the same topic at the end of the video you just watched.
On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 the
Field Trip to the Toronto Family History Centre was cancelled
due to a snow storm.
On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - Anastasia Baczynskyj spoke on Identity in the Ukrainian Canadian Diaspora
Each of the four (plus) waves of Ukrainian immigration to Canada arrived in a context. To understand the identity of the Ukrainian Canadian community as it stands today, Ms. Baczynskyj will explore how waves of immigration occur and why identity is created, nurtured and patrolled by institutions. The historical context of each of the four waves will be surveyed, and concepts such as personal identity, heritage and the search for belonging will be explored.
Key questions:
Does one need permission to identify with a community/culture? What is the
difference between identity and heritage? What is a wave versus a generation?
Who decides what being “truly Ukrainian” means? Why does acceptance matter/not
matter?
Ms. Baczynskyj holds a Master's Degree from the University of Toronto (OISE)
in Theory and Policy Studies in Education with a focus on Historiography.
Her thesis is entitled “Learning How to Be Ukrainian: Ukrainian Schools and
the Formation of Identity in Toronto.” She also holds a certificate in Immigration,
Pluralism and Ethnicity Studies from the University of Toronto (Dept. of
Sociology) and is a highly active member of the Ukrainian community.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 James
Onyschuk spoke On The
Art of Searching the FamilySearch Catalog.
If you're not having luck finding your ancestor's
records in your research, those records might be available ONLY
through the FamilySearch Catalog.
You will learn how to use the catalog in your genealogy research to find images of historic records that have not yet been grouped into searchable collections.
FamilySearch.org has billions of indexed records.
Many of those have an attached image, but not all. What do you do
when you run across the dreaded ”no available image?” What
that means is that the image hasn't been connected to the indexed
record – not that it isn't available somewhere. The trick is finding
out where the image is located. In fact, 77 percent of the
free historical records on FamilySearch.org can't
be found by regular searching. That's a lot of information about
your family just waiting to be discovered!
Why would you need to look at the image? Vagaries in old handwriting mean that
indexers don't always decipher the names and dates correctly.
In order to tap into these hard-to-find records, you'll need to know how to
use resources like unindexed image collections and the FamilySearch Catalog,
as well as some more advanced search features.
On Tuesday, June 11, 2019, Jim Onyschuk spoke on Advanced Techniques on Using FamilySearch & the Art of Googling for Effective Genealogical Searches. It included:
• Step-by-step strategies for developing the right search engine questions to find ancestors
• How to locate ancestors in record collections that aren't searchable
• Overview of FamilySearch.org's collections
• How to use FamilySearch.org's vast collections from Europe, Canada and the 100-plus countries
• Advanced Google search TechniquesLanguage tools, Google Earth, and other Google Apps
On Tuesday, May14, 2019 Ron Wencer spoke
on The
ABCs of DNA for Genealogy.
On Tuesday, April 9, 2019, there was a Field Trip to The Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre — On the 3 rd floor of the Robart's Library — With Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Head, PJRC & Slavic Resources Coordinator.
Among the collections found in the Centre are historic Newspapers from Ukraine and Canada. These papers gave wonderful details of the community, about the geography of the area, migration into the area, and the rich local history.
Obituaries published in the Ukrainian newspapers contained information, such as the names of the villages and districts from where settlers originated and the given names of the surviving married daughters. Such obituary notices were published predominantly in the Ukrainian-lan guage press serving the particular denominational group.
• The semi-monthly Vistnyk/Herald and the weekly Ukrainskyi Holos/Ukrainian Voice published obituaries of persons belonging mostly to the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church
• The monthlies Svitlo/The Light , Holos Spasytela/ Redeemer's Voice weeklies Ukrainski Visti/Ukrainian News, Postup/Progress or Nasha Metal Our Aim published obituaries of persons belonging predominantly to the Ukrainian Catholic Church .
• The weekly Kanadiyskyi Ranok/Canadian Dawn, Evanhelska Pravda/Evangelical Truth, monthly, published obituaries of per sons of Evangelical denominations.
• Obituaries found in other Ukrainian news papers, such as Kanadiyskyi Farmer/Canadian Farmer, weekly, Winnipeg, Novyi Shliakh/New Pathway, semi-weekly, Winnipeg, Vilne Slovo/Free Word , weekly, Toronto, with no religious affiliations, were written by local correspondents, relatives of the deceased persons.
On Tuesday, March 12, 2019, Marla Waltman spoke on “Using Maps and Mapping for Genealogy”.
:Are you using maps to support and improve your research into family members from Ukraine? Have you used maps to explore their lives after emigration? Most genealogists know that maps are a useful resource, but they are much more powerful than most of us know. This presentation will explore the uses of maps, how to find your towns on maps, types of maps and their features, provide links to important map collections for Ukrainian research, and examples of how you can use maps for your research.
On Tuesday, February 12, 2019, Maria Rypan spoke about her book “ It all begins with Mother. ” Maria spoke about the correspondence Fr. Lubomyr kept with his mother Rostyslava, sister Marta and her husband Zenon through weekly letters. Through incredible photos from two family albums dating as far back as the early 19th century. Honouring the village of Kalne, where Rostyslava Demczuk, the mother of His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar, was born and married Yaroslav Husar.
On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 TUGG reviewed the film THAT NEVER HAPPENED. The film revealed the story about Canada's first concentration camps when more than 8,500, mainly Ukrainians, were wrongfully imprisoned in “internment camps” across Canada.
On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 –Thomas Prymak spoke on "Ukrainian Family names in North America." We will also celebrated Christmas Festivities in our usual Pot Luck fashion.
On Tuesday, November 13, 2018 –Dr. Romana M. Bahry launched her book Dr. W.S. Kindraczuk, Forgotten Chemist of Lancut & Pioneer of Probiotics
On Tuesday, October 9 2018– Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden spoke on “Genealogical Sources in Toronto for East European Genealogy."
On Tuesday, September 11, 2018 MTA Walter Kish spoke on “Experiences Searching my Family History.” He described: the process of searching the digitized church archives, what kind of information that is available and what we can deduce from it?
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - Dr. Romana Bahry gave an illustrated film presentation on The Outdoor Museum in Sanok Poland of a Galician Town and Lemko Village .
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 -- Janice Nickerson spoke on -- IDEAS FOR SHOWCASING YOUR DISCOVERIES
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 -- Ron Wencer gave an intriguing presentation on— My Completely New Grandfather: The DNA Gods Giveth, and They Taketh Away
Tuesday, March
13, 2018 -- Dr. KSENYA KIEBUZINSKI spoke
on
DOCUMENTING and FRAMING the 1941 NKVD PRISONER MASSACRES in WESTERN
UKRAINE
Tuesday, January 9, 2018 -- Professor Taras Koznarsky spoke on Taras Shevchenko, Bard of Ukraine
Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017 -- Dr. Alexander Roman, spoke on " Ukrainian Heritage: From Ukraine to Canada.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 —Maria Rypan spoke on "Zavaliw Roots of His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar". Maria illustrated the story of the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church worldwide and revered as theChurch's patriarch.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 — View two video Lectures: Caught between Hitler and Stalin and The Unfolding Ukraine-Russia Crisis. Each video lecture was for 30 minutes and given by noted East European scholar Professor Vejus Gabriel Liulevicius
Tuesday,
June 13, 2017 - Dr. Romana Bahry spoke on "Tracing
Galizien German Ancestors in Western Ukraine: Lviv (Lemberg) to Dolyna."
While
researching her family history, Dr. Bahry visited many libraries and
archives across Ukraine and Poland. She has subsequently developed
a vast knowledge of the genealogical resources available from these
facilities.
This wasthe last session for the TUGG year and new sessions will resume on September 12, 2017
Tuesday,
May 9, 2017 - Ron Wencer spoke on- Lederhosen,
Kilts, and other Misunderstandings: Can your DNA really help
you find the right family trees in the forest?
This talk is intended to be practical; there will be little
or no theoretical discussion of DNA. Based on our experience
(i.e., Janet’s and mine) over more than a year, it will
cover the following topics, using examples from our own Ukrainian,
Slovakian, and Polish backgrounds:
What does Ancestry’s ethnicity assessment mean for an
Eastern European?
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Value and limits of suggested connections
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Surprises, Leads, Dead-ends
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Improving your chances
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Using your results to direct your research
reveal.”
On
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - Linda Reid was to speak
on “Are Your Ancestors Really Your Ancestors? What
DNA tests can
reveal.” Unfortunately it was cancelled due to
hazardous wintery conditions and rescheduled to the April 11th meeting.
On
Saturday, February 18, 2017 -– We had a Field Trip to the Don
Mills Family History Library. 24 Ferrand Drive, Don Mills from 1:00
pm to 3:00 pm.
Carol Nichols gave a PowerPoint presentation on Ancestry: Library
Edition. She revealed how to access the Ancestry.com databases which
are provided free to researchers at Family History Centres and in
Ontario public libraries. We looked at what is available in Ancestry’s
vast collections and learned effective ways to search the thousands
of data bases.
Next, Roberta and Don Harris presented an overview of their facilities which includes 100s of Ukrainian and Polish microfilms containing thousands of parish records. Participants had an opportunity to do some first-hand research on these microfilms containing the Ukrainian and Polish parish records.
On:
Tuesday, January 10, 2017 was to be a film night where we were to
show two video Lectures: Caught between Hitler and Stalin
and The Unfolding Ukraine-Russia Crisis.
Unfortunately it was cancelled due to hazardous wintery conditions.
On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - We had our annual Xmas party and Member Family History Show & Tell . In this last meeting of the year, we invited participants to come out and share in the Christmas spirit of giving in this "show and tell" session. We asked that they share your family history experiences with us re:
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Did you travel to Ukraine or Poland? What did you experience? What lessons can you pass on eg. what you would do differently on your next trip?
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Did you have success in some of your research, eg. did you find the birth record of your great grandmother? How did you find it?
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Did you experience a problem in your research, eg. did you run into a "brick wall", and are you looking for suggestions on how to get around that wall?
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Did you see a good movie that you'd recommend be shown at a TUGG session?
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Did you read a book that you feel would benefit us?
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Are there any webb sites you would recommend?
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Etc.
Participants also shared snacks, eg. pyrohi, cold cuts, cookies, sweets, etc.
On Tuesday
November 8
- Dr.
Frank Sysyn spoke on - “From
Family Stories to Microhistory: The Work of Father
Mykhailo Zubrytsky and the Boiko Region”. Dr.
Sysyn gave a very interesting and entertaining presentation of the
period that his family experienced.
On Tuesday, Oct 11, 2016 - Jim Onyschuk spoke on "Ukrainian Genealogy 101".
On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - Lesia Chytra spoke on "Following Roots: Family History and Fiction". She reviewed her recently published book "Tarnished". She revealed how she used family historical documents as a springboard to create fiction. She also spoke about the writing process and how she used key moments in her own family's life around which to create a fictionalized plot.
On
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - Dr. Romana Bahry spoke
on “Galician towns & The Search for the Elusive
Polish Great Grandfather.”
On Tues, May 10, 2016 - Andrij Makuch spoke on “Ukrainians in Toronto: Locally, Provincially, Nationally and Internationally.”
On Tues, April 12, 2016 - Jim Onyschuk spoke on “How Genealogists can Benefit by Using Archival Principals When Filing Documents and Items.”
On Tues, Mar 8, 2016 - Dawn Connolly spoke on "Self Publishing." Dawn is a librarian at the Toronto Reference Library and works with Digital Innovation Hub/Asquith Press at the Library. They offer services and classes on how to publish your own book, be it a family history, a journal, cook-book, etc.
On Sat. Feb 6, 2016 - Featured a Field Trip to City of Toronto Archives. After an hour-long presentation the group was free to do their own research.
On Tues, Jan 12, 2016 - Director and Producer, James Motluk previewed his film “A Place called Shandro” – and answered questions.
On Tues, Dec 8, 2015 - James Thomson spoke on “DNA Tools for Tracing our Genealogy.” & we had our annual Christmas Party
We were introduced to various testing tools and projects to consider whether and how they may be candidates for inclusion in your genetic genealogist's toolkit. Such tools as, the myOrigins ethnic mapping results provided to those who take FamilyFinder autosomal DNA tests from FamilyTreeDNA, or the Ancestry Composition and haplogroup results provided by 23andMe, or the ethnicity estimates provided by AncestryDNA may fascinate us even though they have more to do with population genetics than genetic genealogy -- and we may find National Geographic's Genographic Project and related tools in GEDmatch intriguing in the same way.
We
learned what genetic testing is and how it’s carried out through
DNA research projects. How can we use DNA to trace our genealogy
On Tues. Nov. 10, 2015 - Jim Onyschuk did a presentation on "How to Use Gazetteers and the Census to Develop a Detailed Village Description."
On Tues, Oct 13, 2015 - Sonia van Heerden spoke on “Ukrainian Genealogy and the Family History Library.”
On Tues. Sep 15, 2015 - Dr. Thomas Prymak had a Book Launch for his new work “Gathering a Ukrainian, Slavonic, and Ethnic Heritage in Canada: A Brief Introduction.” in collaboration with St. Vladimir Institute.
On Tuesday, June 9, 2015- Dr. Romana Bahry spoke on "Researching Galician towns: Past & Present." This being the final session before the summer break, we also took topic suggestions for the upcoming TUGG Year, starting in September.
On Tuesday, May 12, 2015- William Vetzel spoke on "Austrian military recruiting areas in 1886." William illustrated some of the short cuts priests used to indicate information on birth records, such as "rc" standing for Roman Catholic, etc. He also brought a few of his 23 binders just of his father's side. In addition, he showed one of his 400 Banduras that he has made since the 1980's.
On
Tuesday, April 14, 2015- Ron Wencer spoke on
Tracking Ukrainians who came to the United States
While the topic is centered on doing US-based research,
his powerful methodology also applied to Canada.
Ron demonstrated a multi-varied approach in his research.
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015- Carol Nichols spoke on Using Mobile Devices for Your Genealogy
On Tuesday, February 15, 2015- Field Trip to the Family History Library at Don Mills Road.
On Tuesday Jan 13, 2015- James Motluk spoke on the film he produced: Film - Directions Home: The Story of the Resettlement of Ukrainian Refugees After WWII and the Canadian Soldiers Who Made it Possibl
On
Tuesday, December 9, 2014- We had our annual Christmas Party &
heard Marta Iwanek speak on
"Maidan: The People's Revolution: A Photographer's
Prospective" - photos from Ukraine from 2013 and
2014.
From 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
On Tuesday, Nov 11, 2014 - Brenda Cooke spoke on: "Finding Kavka - research from Montreal, Toronto, the UK & Lviv." She spoke of the difficulties around establishing her father's correct name starting in Montreal and ending in Ukraine, where she finally established it as Kavka. The difficulty started with the various transliteration possibilities from Ukrainian to English. In the process of discovering her family name she discovered her Ukrainian relatives.
On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - James Onyschuk gave a PowerPoint presentation on: “Opening up the Canadian, Ukrainian & Polish Archives: How to Search Them.” He outlined how the archives arrange their collections and how to go about ordering up files. He gave examples of how to search items, such as boat records and retrive them via the internet.
On Tuesday, September 9, 2014, James Motluk spoke on: " JAJO’S SECRET: A Documentary about the internment of Ukrainians by the government of Canada during World War One." In 1914 the government introduced the War Measures Act and rounded up thousands of Ukrainians, sending them to 24 concentration camps located across the country. Some prisoners were paroled and made to work as forced labour for some of Canada’s most profitable companies.
This riveting documentary tells the story of how filmmaker James Motluk discovers that his Jajo (grandfather) was one of these parolees.
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 Dr. Romana Bahry spoke on "The History of Galicia (Southeastern Poland and Western Ukraine) and the Challenges of Doing Genealogical Research." Dr. Bahry also gave a review of Ukrainian church history.
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Gail Skikevitch - Did a PowerPoint presentation called "Maria's Story - How It Lead to Unexpected Outcomes or Genealogy is more than Just Names and Dates."She also had a table display of items and publications related to the story.
On Tuesday,
April 8, 2014 Stefan Genyk-Berezowski spoke on
The Genyk-Berezowsky Family who were instrumental
in helping hundreds of pioneer settlers make their way and setle in
Canada.
On
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 Ron Wencer spoke
on – North American Immigrants, the Great War, and
Mothers
2014 begins the centennial remembrance of World War I. This
talk provided an overview of the wartime attitudes, the experiences
faced by our immigrant ancestors’ families, and discuss the
recognition given to families – those with men in service, and
those whose men did not return. Special attention is given to the
mothers whose sons were lost in the Great War.
On Tuesday, February, 2014 we had the Book Launch of: A Promise Kept: A Tribute to a Mother’s Love
This book
was written by Toronto author Andriy J. Semotiuk
Also featured were a few rare historical artifacts from 20th century
Eastern Europe from the author’s collection.
The book is a family memoir focused on the life story of Salomea Drozdowska, the author’s mother, who was born in Western Ukraine and grew up under pre-World War II Poland. Losing her hearing as a young girl, the author’s mother becomes a silent witness to the atrocities of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II before fleeing to Canada at the end of the war as one of the first refugees arriving on the prairies in 1948. Just when her life appeared to have settled, unexpected hardships greet her on the farms of Alberta ultimately driving her to Edmonton where she gives birth to a son, the author. The story continues with how the author’s mother, along with her Los Angeles-resident sister, raise the author in North America.
On SATURDAY, January 11, 2014 -- We had a Field Trip to the Toronto Reference Library where we examined its many important Genealogy Resources.
On
Tuesday, December 10, Thomas M. Prymak, PhD spoke
on "In the Shadow of a Political Assassination: Gabrielle
Roy's 'Stephen' and the Ukrainian Canadians."
A tale of love, death, and intrigue, set in England and the Europe
of Hitler and Stalin on the eve of the Second World War.
On
Tuesday, Nov. 12, Paul Jones spoke on-- Designing
an Efficient and Effective “Tracing Forward” Project
Tracing forward has many applications
·He
covered: heir searching, reverse genealogy, descendant tracing, finding
living relatives, finding lost cousins, tracing
forward
and offered
a systematic strategy for tracing forward that will work effectively
and efficiently whatever the situation.
On:Tuesday October 8 - -Cathy McNamara spoke on-- How to Plan a Fabulous Family Reunion
Where he examined: Search Strategies
Knowing the Types of Available Records
Knowing Where These Records Reside
Knowing How to Open an LDS Account
Knowing How to Search the LDS Catalogue
While there are a growing number of records available in Ukraine and Poland for researching your ancestry. Many of these records are also available “this side of the pond.” While travelling overseas and searching the archives and libraries is preferable, you will still need to know what is available both here and in those archives. You can also conduct a tremendous amount of research without having to travel outside the country.
On Tuesday June 11- Dr. Romana Bahry spoke on - Sources for the Genealogy of Dr. Kindraczuk, Galician Scientist and Pharmacist (Horodenka, Lviv, Vienna, Lancut)
Tuesday, May 14 - Ron Wencer did a PowerPoint slide show of - In Search of Our Ancestors’ Routes: Trans-Atlantic Paths from Galicia During the First-Wave Years
Tuesday March 12 - Field trip to Jacyk Centre –showcasing their print and electronic resources, and then a visit to the Microtext department where are housed hundreds of Ukrainian newspapers on microfilm .
Tues. Feb. 12 - Dave Melnychuk – spoke on - Collage & Research of Family - Dave has done a remarkable job researching his ancestry. He tracesd the movement of his family in Ukraine and Canada employing elements of collage in a very unique way. There were many illustrations of the costumes that his ancestry wore in Ukraine.
Tues. Jan. 8, 2013 - Film – The Officer’s Wife - a documentary by Academy-award winner Jan A.P. Kaczmarek partnering with filmmaker Piotr Uzarowicz to create a moving story about a family caught in the crossfire of the Soviets and Nazis and the lifelong repercussions that followed.
In an old safe, a man discovers his grandmother’s memoirs, old photos of an army officer and a mysterious postcard that link to a concealed crime; the Katyn Forest massacre. Weaving interviews with bold animation, The Officer's Wife explores the collision of truth, justice and memory in a family tragedy.
The cover-up of the Katyn massacre is still rarely acknowledged. Two million families (mostly spouses, children and relatives of Polish military officers murdered at Katyn) were taken from their homes in Poland and deported to Siberia by the Soviets in 1940 and the U.S. and Great Britain took an active role in covering it up.
Over half were dead within one year. Only 200,000 managed to survive and leave the Soviet Union. Those that escaped were told by the U.S. and Britain to keep their mouths shut about what happened.
Tues. Dec. 11, 2012 - Jim Onyschuk – Census & City Directories for Research - Jim gave a Powerpoint presentation, while participants partook of Christmas fare.
Tues. Nov. 13, 2012 - Marsha Skrypuch – “An Evening with Marsha” - Marsha discussed the research and writing of her most recent novel, “Making Bombs For Hitler”, as well as other books that have a family history application. She gave insight about using family history as the seed for historical fiction, biography, memoir and other story formats.
Tues. Oct. 9, 2012 - Members’ Research and road blocks - Hands on Session on Strategies for Overcoming Brick Walls, Dead Ends & Bottle-Necks in Genealogy.
Tues. Sept.11, 2012 - Ukrainian Genealogy 101 – Analyzing Pedigree Charts & Family Group Sheets - members brought their family group sheets & pedigree charts printed from their genealogy programmes to share with others
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - Ron Wencer spoke on - What’s New for Genealogical Research Now - from 5 or 10 Years Ago?
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - Dr. Romana Bahry (York University) Spoke on- Sources for Researching Polish Ancestry in Cracow .
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - Marian
Press Spoke on - Googling for Genealogy: How
to Take Advantage of all Google Has to Offer
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - Steve Fulton spoke on New Computer Hardware for Genealogy.
Tuesday, February 14 - Evhen Ladna – Lemko Society of Toronto - Spoke on Wisla Operation - Ukrainians removed from homelands.
Operation Wisła (Polish: Akcja Wisła) was the codename for the 1947 deportation of southeastern Poland's Ukrainian, Boyko and Lemko populations, carried out by the Soviet installed communist authorities in Poland with assistance from Soviet Union.
The Government of Poland forcibly deported over 140,000 Ukrainian men, women, children and the elderly, from the indigenous Ukrainian territories of eastern and south-eastern Poland.
According to Polish government documents from the period, the purpose of this ethnic cleansing was "to solve the Ukrainian problem once and for all". The intent was to destroy the indigenous Ukrainian community in Poland by dispersing it throughout the newly acquired northern and western territories of Poland, They were to constitute no more than 10 percent of the population in any one location, and the eventual goal of government policy was their total assimilation into the Polish majority.
Members of the intelligentsia and leading members of the community, including clergy (both Greek-Catholic and Orthodox), were centered out and sent from collection points to the concentration camp in Jaworzno called the Central Work Camp, and was a branch of the German camp Auschwitz.
In addition to Operation Wisła,
deportations continued in stages until 1951. Ukrainians that resided
west of the established Poland-Soviet Union border were deported to
Soviet Ukraine. As a result of treaties between Poland and the USSR,
some 450,000 Lemkos and Ukrainians were deported to Ukraine, and some
300,000 managed to stay in their native regions, within the borders
of Poland.
Saturday, January 14, 2012 - Field trip to: North York Central Library - Gladys Allison Canadiana Room |
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The library contains a vast collection of genealogy books and resources, including:
- Ship passenger lists Border entry records and Immigration forms Census Records City Directories from across Canada Assessment records for Ontario
- Some vital records: births, marriages, and deaths
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - Film - METROPOLITAN ANDREY - Vladyka Andrey the movie, is based on the life and work of a renowned historical figure and church leader, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Andrei Sheptytskyy, through severe persecution and the repression of political regimes from czarist rule to Stalin and Hitler.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - Ron Wencer spoke on – But I Don’t Have an Ancestral Village - tracking people who wouldn’t stay put – 15 years of techniques, coincidences, bright ideas, mistakes & luck
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - Dr. Ksenya Kiebuzinski spoke on – Class and National Identity in Galicia: Sketches of a Przemysl Family 1870s – 1940s
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - Ron Wencer – spoke on “Using PowerPoint to Share Family History:: Getting the most out of it, including how to share your efforts with people who don't have computers.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - Dr. Romana Bahry ( York University) spoke on “Journey to her Father’s Ancestral Home in Zboriv, Western Ukraine & the Secret in the Attic.”
Tuesday, May 10, 2011- Frank Cedar spoke on "Ukrainian research in Poland.”
Frank
has traced his roots back to the year 1700 for two families ...
Wojtowicz and Lorenowicz.
process of how he obtained it.
We were given an overview of their facilities as well as having an opportunity to do some first-hand research on microfilms containing Ukrainian and Polish parish records.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - Jim Onyschuk spoke on - "OneNote: A Tool for Organizing Your Research Electronically."
OneNote is a powerful tool for systematically organizing research and records, making it easy to keep all of your information in one easy-to-manage location. It is designed for note taking, brainstorming, researching, searching, collaborating and collecting random bits of information.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - We reviewed the film - "Harvest of Despair" The film documents the Ukrainian famine (Holodomor) of 1932—33. Using interviews with survivors and scholars to supplement rare photographic evidence, it establishes that the famine was deliberately created by the of Stalinist regime in a decades-long effort to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry, who resisted the forced collectivization of their lands.
Saturday, January 15, 2011 - The "Tour of the Family History Library", 24 Ferrand Drive, Don Mills was cancelled due to a winter storm.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010, Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden spoke on “Genealogy Sources in Europe for East European Research” - Part four of a four-part series. It was followed by a Christmas Party.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010, Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden spoke on “Genealogical sources in Canada and USA for East European Genealogy” - Part three of a four-part series.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden spoke on “Genealogical Sources in Toronto for East European Genealogy" - Part two of a four-part series.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden spoke on “Introduction to Eastern European Genealogy” -Part one of a four-part series.
Tuesday, June 1 was
an important wrap-up session dealing with:
- Suggestions for future meetings
- Our presence at the Bloor West Ukrainian Festival
- Show & Tell/ members mini-presentations
- Breakthroughs and brick-wall members have encountered
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - Frank Cedar - Spoke on "Research on Ukrainians in Poland and Ukraine...How I Found My Family Roots" Part of his presentation focusrd on SE Poland around Pzremysl. He will also covered how and where to find records and data. In addition, Frank gave a brief history on how UA families from that area were moved into Ukraine.
A highlight was his posting many old Austrian maps on the walls including what are known as Cadastral maps and discussed how they were obtained.
Tues April 13, 2010 - Dr. Romana Bahry (York University) - Did a PowerPoint presentaion on "Ukrainian Genealogy in Vienna, Austria." She outlined the many collections related to Galician genealogy which are housed in one of the Hapsburg palaces. Dr. Bahry also outlined the political and religious changes which affected Galician history.
Pierce also discussed Ghostscript, which is a separate free product that Irfanview can use to read PDF files. He also showed how using a GPS (Global Positioning System) can be a valuable addition when taking pictures and determining where they were taken.
Tues Dec 8 - Kay Horiszny shared
stories on her father "The Ukrainian Shoemaker of Cabbagetown."
She spoke of her life growing up in a poorer section of Toronto.
Other participants told of their experiences growing up in their Ukrainian
families. At the same time we held our Annual Christmas party,
replete withgood food.
Tuesday November 10 - Wasyl Sydorenko spoke on - "The Ukrainian Diaspora in South America: Tools and Bibliographies." He outlined those areas to which Ukrainians emigrated and how to research this aspect of the Diaspora.
Tuesday, October 13, Andrew Melnyk – spoke on his recently published book, "My Grandfather's Mill - Journey to Freedom."
He told of the perilous trip to escape from Nazi-controlled Ukraine during the war.There was an official book launch on Sunday Oct. 18, 2009, held at the UNF Center at 145 Evans Avenue. Various speakers gave readings and commented on the events raised in the book. Professor, Professor Orest Subtelny, author of Ukraine, A History, lauded the content and spoke on the "DP" experiences affecting 3rd. wave Ukrainians to Canada.
Tuesday, September 8, The Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group icommenced its 11th year of meetings. Our first speaker for the season was :
Maryka Wodoslawsky - who spoke on "Following the Route of the Ancestors from Poland to Ukraine" - a 6 ½ week journey the summer of 2009. Maryka's family was caught up in the ethnic cleansing operation when Ukrainians, who lived in the lands known as Zakerzonnia, were incorporated into Communist Poland and the entire Ukrainian population were forcefully deported either to the USSR or to the northernterritories of Poland. This operation was known as Akcja Wisla and affected some 150,000 Ukrainians. During the opration over 4,000 civilians, including women, children and clergy were interned in the Jaworzno Concentration Camp (formerly part of the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz).
Jim Onyschuk demonstrated How to set up an electronic genealogy binder using OneNote part of the Microsoft Office Suite. He also demonstrated the language learning software for Ukrainian called Byki. We also discussed the 2010 Research Tour to Western Ukraine. Finally we explored iIdeas for next year's program.
Tuesday, May
12 - Bill Gladstone spoke on "Publishing
Your Research: How to Stay Organized and Sane"
Topics included:
- producing scalable family charts using family tree software enhancing and repairing old photographs in Photoshopdesigning a book using a professional design program
- working with an American print on demand publisher
April 14, 2009 - Professor Peter Potichnyj
spoke on "The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)
and its Activities in Zakerzonnia." Dr. Potichnij outlined
the history and structure of the UPA and their struggle to protect
Ukrainians from Polish, German and Soviet armies during WW II and
after. He dicussed the tragic forced relocation of Ukrainian families
living in a 60 kilometer band of land, families dating back to 900.
He also discussed the work his compatriates were doing to preserve
the documents arrising out of the conflict.
Tuesday
- What Records to Search and how to locate them
they hold for genealogists
- Tips on using the Internet
January 13, 2009 - Professor Peter
Potichnyi was to speak on "The Ukrainian Insurgent
Army and its Activities in Zakerzonnia."
Unfortunately due to an illness, Dr. Potichnyi had to cancel. In his
stead we viewed "The Orange Revolution"
by Steve York. This a "must see" video with shots of "behind
the scenes" events, which added drama to this excellent overview
of this historic event.
Tuesday, October 21 – Jim Onyschuk spoke on
Tuesday June
10,
Film showing of "The
Fullness of Time: Ukrainian Stories from Alberta."
Our Christmas Party featured six
dozen varynyky, lots of fresh Kubassa and other goodies.
Tuesday September 11, 2007 -
Jim Onyschuk
spoke on “How
to Research Using the TUGG Site.”
Tuesday June 26, 2007 - This was a wrap- up session. Jim Onyschuk gave a slide presentation on the 2007 "Discover Your Roots Tour to Western Ukraine." The session explored someideas and topics for next session's program.
Tuesday May 8, 2007 - Dr. Romana Bahry of York University spoke on her visits to the Archives in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Krakow, Przemyshl & travel in Poland & Ukraine.
*Tuesday April 10, 2007 - Dr. Andrew Gregorowich spoke on “ Maps Old & New for Genealogical Research.” In a well received presentation, Dr. Gregorowich outlined the long history of Ukraine. Although the nation-state of Ukraine is recent, the nation of Ukraine has been in existence for many hundred years. This he illustrated on ancient maps, which were headed and labeled Ukraine (some of which he had on hand) and in various historic accounts. Dr. Gregorowich solidly refuted previous claims by Polish and Russian authors that Ukraine was not a nation but a part of their respective countries.
*Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - Bob Dawes spoke on "The Risks & Rewards of Pay-per-View Genealogy Websites."
*Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - Bob Dawes was to speak on "The Risks & Rewards of Pay-per-View Genealogy Websites." Unfortunately the meeting had to be rescheduled to Tuesday, March 13, due to a winter storm.
*Saturday, January
20, 2007 - Field Trip to the Family History Center
at 24 Ferrand Drive North York. - A very informative hands-on
session was led by Peter Goddard, one of the volunteer
staff at the Center. Perhaps the most valuable
There were 40
new films added on Saturday, to this permanent collection.
These new films cover 118 villages and towns.
*Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - Focused on How to Utilize the Resources at your Local Family Center. - FHCs are open free to the public and run on a nonprofit basis by volunteers. Nobody preaches to those who attend - just as nobody would disturb you in a "regular" public library. Participants l earnt what microfilms of Ukrainian and Polish church records are on permanent loan at the Toronto Family History Center and free to search. The Center has FREE access to the Ancestry.com. data base, which you would normally pay for, for an individual subscription. Participants also enjoyed some Ukrainian cuisine at our annual Xmas party.
*Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - Gail Skikovitz spoke and gave a slide show on her experiences in finding family in Ukraine & her visits to the Archives in Ternopil & 2 Archives in Warsaw. Time prevented Romana Bahry from speaking on her trip experiences. We will reschedule a future session to hear Romana's presentation.
* Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - Bill
Gladstone spoke on "Canadian Naturalization
Records -- A Genealogical Treasure Trove."
He dealt with the records from about 1918 to 1951 and how to attain
copies of them from the federal government under the Access to Information
Act.
There was also the installation of the TUGG officers for 2006-2007.
* Monday, September 11, George Duravetz, spoke on "How Canadians can Survive a Trip to Ukraine & Ukrainian Bureaucracy".
George, noted author of the two-volume series on " Ukrainian: Conversational and Grammatical. Level I and Level II." is a Canadian-born son of Ukrainian emmigrants., He purchased a home in Ukraine and has lived between Canada and Ukraine for many years. He spoke on his experiences of living in Ukraine along with it's evolution and the somewhat slow improvements. He pointed out a major problem with seeing most books and the media being published in Russian and not in Ukrainian. He outlined the political process ollowing the "Orange Revolution" and how it has been a major disappointment for most Ukrainians. The old bureaucratic mentality still permeates throughout the system and holds back progress.
There was a lively debate and the session went an hour past the meeting deadline.
* Tuesday June 13 , This was our annual wrap up session - We viewed a film on "How To Use The Family History Library Catalog" and explored ideas and topics for the next session's program - There was a mini presentation on "Locating what's on LDS Films from the Greek Catholic Consistory of L'viv.
* Tuesday May 9 , Session was on - Brickwalls and Hurrahs - People brought their successes and problems to share with other members, and obtained help on stumbling blocks they were encountering. One breakthrough came when a participant had her parents letters translated. She found that the relationship between individual ancestors was indicated in the letters and was able, in this way, to go back four generations in her family tree.
* Tuesday April 11, Ed Drebot spoke on his "Trip to Ukraine and Visiting the Archives". Ed spent two years in Ukraine and witnessed the "Orange evolution" demonstrations. His three-part talk focused on the first recorded genealogy found in The Bible, The Torah and other religious groups. He then spoke on what he experienced visiting the Oblast Archives. Finally he spoke of his experiences in Ukraine.
* Tuesday March 7, 2006, Marco Carynyk spoke on "Ukrainians, Jews and Poles in Galicia 1939-1941." He read selections from his upcoming book, entitled Furious Angels: Ukrainians, Jews, and Poles in the Summer of 1941 and that is to be published by Yale University Press.
*Saturday February 18, 2006, from 2:00-5:00 pm., there was a Field Trip to the Toronto Reference Library-Genealogical Resources. The group had a hands-on session at computer terminals to explore what databases were available through the Central Library. Of note are the databases of certain pay sites, such as Ancestry.com, which are freely available through the library.
The group also visited the extensive Special Collections, Genealogy and Maps Centre located on the fourth floor of the Toronto Reference Library at 789 Yonge St. The Library is one block north of Bloor Street on the east side of Yonge.
Tuesday January 10, 2006, there was a showing of the film "My Mother's Village" by John Paskievich. This is a powerful film. John Paskievich is the son of a post-world war II refugee family, who made their way to Canada. Tthe story is not only of his visit to the land of his forbears but also of the attempts of his contemporaries to come to terms with the dual identity forged by the displacement experience. This is a must see film!
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2005
* Tuesday, December 13, 2005, there was a showing of "Jakub", together with our Christmas party. The film is a documentary about the people of a Rusyn village in northern Romania who were relocated to the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia after World War II. The film focuses on the recollections of members of the community as they eminisce about an unusual character named “Jakub.”
* Tuesday, November 8, 2005 Mike Dunk spoke on "Using Digital Equipment in genealogy". In a well-received meeting, Mike illustrated just how important having a digital camera and scanner can greatly improve genealogical record-keeping. He also shared information on various types of software that are used to enhance and repair photographs. He showed some examples of software used to create digital photo albums which could be burned onto CDs and given as gifts to family members.
* Friday, October 14, 2005, author, Orysia Paszczak Tracz spoke on "Ukrainian Folk Medicine." Baba Was Right All Along: [Baba mala ratsiyu]. So what did your Baba or Oma or Nonna use when you were sick? Did it work? What plants grew in her garden and on her window sill? What are some plant, animal, and mineral medications that are still used today?
* Tuesday, September 13th, 2005, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch spoke on the research and the process she was going through for her next book, a novel on World War I Internment Camps in Canada. She is the author of "Silver Threads." Participants also related their successes and roadblocks they encountered over the summer break.
* Tuesday, June 14, 2005, This seasonal wrap-up session included: Sharing Legends of our Families: Proving or Disproving Them, Ideas for next season’s program and Member’s mini-presentations.
* Tuesday, May 10, 2005, Myron Momryk spoke on: "Preserving Your Family and Organizational Records"Myron is a Project Archivist with the Social and Cultural Archives of the National Library and Archives of Canada. He has compiled many outlines on Ukrainian source materials for research. Myron is active in the Ottawa Ukrainian genealogy Group
He covered the "do's and don'ts" on preserving papers, correspondence, photos and related material? He included family records and also the genealogist’s records while they are doing research. Examples were provided. Myron also outlined the resources that are available at the National Library and Archives in Ottawa to research Ukrainian genealogy.
* Tuesday, April 12, 2005, Eva D’Amico spoke on “How to Create a Memory Book from Family Photos and Documents”. We learned how to organize and preserve ourvaluable genealogical family photos, documents and memorabilia into an archival, beautiful and meaningful memory book. Using hands on techniques, as well as handouts, we learned the basics of using archival materials, making sense of all the 'scrapbook' products out there, and expressing your own creativity to make it a meaningful family heirloom.
* Saturday, March 19 from 1:00 PM--An Afternoon in the Canadiana Department of the North York Central Library 6th Floor. John Jacobson conducted a 45minute tour of the vast genealogical resources held in the Canadiana Department. Participants were then free to explore the resources and do some serious research. Many found ship ecords of their ancestors coming to Canada.
* Tuesday, February 8, 2005 Bill Harasym, spoke on “Ukrainian-Canadian Participation in the Spanish Civil War.” The speaker was also knowledgeable about the history of the “Association of United Ukrainian Canadians” and its predecessor “The Ukrainian Labour and Farmers' Temple Association,” which was a leading national organization for Ukrainian emigrants in the 1920s and onward. He fielded questions aboutthese organizations which played a roll in Ukrainian-Canadian life in the Interwar period as well as the 1950s.
On Tuesday January 11, 2005 There was a showing of the video, "Between Hitler and Stalin". Narrated by Jack Palance, the video portrays the titanic struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that took place on Ukraine's territory. Although called the Russo-German war, only parts of Russia were occupied, while all Ukrainian territories were invaded and laid waste by both the Nazi and Soviet war machines. The film recounts the losses and suffering of the Ukrainian people during the two years of Soviet-Nazi collaboration (1939-1941), the destruction wrought by Stalin's scorched earth policy during the Soviet retreat, and the ruin left behind by the German and then the Soviet offensives. This is a must see film, for those who missed it.
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2004
* On December 14, 2004 Oksana Zakydalski, Secretary-Treasurer of the Ukrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre spoke on: "Life Stories of Ukrainian Canadian Immigrants Interviewed in Canada".
* On November 9th, 2004, there was a Field Trip to the Petro Jacyk Research Centre at Robarts Library, University of Toronto 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Wasyl Sydorenko gave a presentation on Ukrainian Heraldry. Mary Stevens, the director, spoke on and showed the many resources the Centre had for conducting a genealogical search. The group also visited the extensive map library at the Robarts Library.
* On October 12, 2004, Marian Press spoke on "Active versus Passive Use of the Internet for Genealogy".
* On September 14, 2004, Professor Edward Burstynsky of the Linguistics Department at the University of Toronto spoke on "The Ukrainian Language-Past and Present". There was also a report on the indexing project by TUGG of the Greek Catholic Consistory of L'viv microfilms.
* On June 8, 2004, Wrap up session, suggestions for upcoming sessions and Ukraine trip accounts
On May 11, 2004, Viewed the video "Legacy to a New Land: A Celebration of Ukrainian Settlement in the West."
* On April 13, 2004, Dr. Paul Magocsi spoke on "What is Ukraine and Who Are Ukrainians."
* On March 9, 2004, Ron Wencer spoke on "Using Maps to Document Your Ancestors Lives."
* On February 10, 2004--Boris Sozanski spoke on "Personal trips to Ukraine".
*
On January 13, 2004--We discussed Information on Lviv Microfilm
indexing Project and Planning for a trip to Ukraine.
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2003
*
On December 9 , 2003--Member's successes & Problems
with Ukrainian
Archives and Mormon Library Searches &
the Annual Christmas Party
* On November 11 , 200--Jim Onyschuk spoke on "How to Develop a Chronology of your Family."
* On October 12, 2003--Oleh Iwanisiw presented "News from the Lviv Archives."
* On September 9, 2003 Alex Dolnytski spoke on "Cyrillic fonts & Genealogy on the Computer".
* On June 10, 2003--Publishing your information—with Sonia van Heerden, plus a wrap up meeting and election of executive officers for next year.
* On May 13, 2003--Dr. Frank Sysyn spoke on Mshanets, a Boiko Village: Sources to Transatlantic Ties and Genealogy.
* On April 8, 2003—Allan Szuch spoke on the Memorial Books of Fallen Soldiers of Ukraine: A Storehouse for Genealogists.
* On March 11, 2003—Rodney Travis-Griffen spoke on the "International Red Cross Tracing Service."
* On February 11, 2003--Jane McNamara spoke on Friends of the Ontario Archives and Multicultural Society
*
January 14, 2003--We showed the video - "Freedom Had
a Price 1914-1920, Canada's First Internment Operation".
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2002
* On December 10, 2002 — Andrew Gregorovich, Senior ResearcherUkrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre spoke on "Geographical & Reference Resources for Ukrainian Genealogy." Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden also spoke on Researchers in Ukraine.
* On November 12, 2002 —Andrew Gregorowich gave an overview of the Ukrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre at St. Vlad’s and spoke on Resources of old maps and reference books for Ukrainian Genealogy research.
* On October 8, 2002--Ihor Kuryliw spoke on "Travel in Ukraine in the past and in the present."
* On September 10, 2002--Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden gave a report on the East European Conference, which was held in Regina, July 2002 and the International Jewish Conference, which was held in Toronto, August, 2002. Oleh Iwanisiw spoke on Life in Ukraine. Lydia Bortnyk spoke on Ukrainian Language Classes at St. Vladimir Institute.
* On June 11, 2002, A general problem-solving meeting to deal with road-blocks people had encountered in their search. The meeting also dealt with "Steps to Follow When Writing to the Ukrainian Archives and Villages for Information."
* On May 14, 2002, Andrij Makuch of the CIUS spoke on "Ukrainian Canadian Historical Writing."
* On April 9, 2002, Thomas Prymak spoke on "Family Names Among Ukrainian Canadians and Americans."
* On March 12, 2002, Louise St. Dennis spoke on "Dealing with the Mountains of Paper, How to Organize your Files Acquired While Doing Genealogical Research."
* On February 12, 2002, Marion Press from the Ontario Genealogical Society spoke on "Computers and Genealogy."
* On January 8, 2002, Dr. Larry Gaum spoke on "Videotaping your Family History and How to Write Your Family History Book."
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Year 2001
* On November 13, 2001, Ihor Bodnar the Ukrainian Vice-Consul General and Halyna Kovaliova in Toronto spoke on "Accessing Resources in Ukraine."
* On October 9, 2001, Oleh Iwanusiw spoke on "Research in Ukraine & Oblast Maps."
* On September 11, 2001, Halyna Ostapchuk spoke on "Resources at the St. Vladimir Library."
* On May 8, 2001, Sonia van Heerden spoke on "Resources in the USA for Canadian/Ukrainian Research."
* On April 10, 2001, Jane MacNamara of the Ontario Genealogical Society spoke on "Sources Available at the Mormon Library."
* On March 13, 2001, there was a Field Trip to the Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street, Genealogy Section, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Librarians outlined the resources available.
* On February 13, 2001, there was a Field Trip to the Canadiana Room of the Toronto Public Library, 5120 Yonge Street, 6th Floor, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. John Jacobson conducted a tour of the genealogical resources, which were available.
* On January 9, 2001, Oleh Iwanasiw spoke on "Taking a Research Trip to Ukraine."
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2000
* On November 14, 2000, a discussion of Ethnic Books for Research, Canadian Sources and Sources in the Prairie Provinces. The group discussed areas of interest and were given advice on where to search next.
* On October 10, 2000, a discussion on "Searching Passenger Lists". Sonia van Heerden spoke on "Research in the Toronto Area." There was a discussion obtained from Tony Rocci from his talks given in 1999.
* On September 12, 2000, Sonia van Heerden spoke on how to fill out Pedigree Charts, Family Group Sheets & using a Problem Solving Checklist.
* On March 7, 2000, Tony Rocci gave a talk on "Genealogy and the Internet."
* There were no meetings in April or May.
* On February 5, Tony Rocci spoke on "Ukrainian First Names."
* The January meeting was not held due to Ukrainian holidays.
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1999
* On December 8, 1999, Tony Rocci spoke on "Social Classes, Political Terminology" and the "Waves of Ukrainian Immigration."
* On November 9, 1999, Tony Rocci gave a talk on "A glossary of Ukrainian Terminology," and Sonia van Heerden gave a talk on "Genealogical Research in the Toronto Area."
* On October 12, 1999, Tony Rocci spoke on "A Crash Course in Ukrainian Genealogy" and Sonia van Heerden demonstrated "How to Properly Fill Out Pedigree and Family Group Charts," as a start to genealogy. The group also filled out forms indicating the surnames individuals are searching and time and and geographical areas of research.
* The September 14, 1999 meeting was the "Inaugural Meeting of the Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group," held in the Board Room at the St. Vladimir Institute, 620 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2H4. The meeting started at 7:00 p.m. with Tony Rocci acting as the facilitator. Brian Gilchrist brought greetings from the Ontario Genealogy Society. The group discussed their respective ancestors and areas of interest.