Will you be attending Saturday’s BIFHSGO meeting in person?
If so, don’t go to Nepean Centrepointe!
The new location is the church hall, Geneva Hall, at Knox Presbyterian Church (Lisgar & Elgin). Use the Garden Entrance off Elgin Street just south of the church building.
The morning gets underway at 9 am with an open mic session, an opportunity to share an exciting discovery.
At 10 am Suzanne Lesage, president of la Société de généalogie de l’Outaouais in Gatineau, will present on her ancestor Laughlin McKinnon who emigrated to Canada from Eigg in the Inner Hebrides.
The session will also be streamed. To join online, please register Here.
The bonus to travelling downtown is meeting face-to-face with colleagues you may not have seen since pre-pandemic times.
Did you know that perhaps 40,000 Canadian men and women fought on both sides of the American Civil War, an estimated 4,500 dying from disease and 3,500 from combat? 
I’m way late in posting on the September issue that became available on 12 August. It’s a few days until the October issue becomes available on 9 September.
New on Ancestry, 101,383 index records sourced from the National Library of Wales. Find:
Records of those, all men, who served in the Home Guard, or Dad’s Army”, are rare.