My email inbox on Thursday contained the latest issue of “The Ottawa Genealogist.” It’s full of locally relevant genealogical content and more.
I’d normally overlook the item Malta, Monumental Inscriptions. Mike More included it in his regular selection of items from Dick Eastman’s newsletter. Having just booked a vacation there, it attracted my attention. Searching the CWGC and LAC WW2 Service files websites, I found four RCAF casualties memorialized on the Malta Memorial in Floriana, Valletta, with associated Ottawa addresses: 113 Henderson, 54 Balsam, 960 Gladstone, and 114 Driveway.
This is a reminder that Kyla Ubbink will present Restorations of Biblical Proportions for the branch on Saturday at 1 p.m., a hybrid meeting.
Kyla discusses the challenges conserving family Bibles. “Covers have become detached, the glues are failing, the pages are loose, and sometimes even the leather is rotting away, but family bibles can be saved. Old glues can be replaced with new glues, the pages secured, and tears repaired. Bindings are restored by inserting new material beneath the original leather, and dyes and leather dressings return luster and beauty. It takes technical knowledge, patience, an aptitude for meticulous work, and on occasion leads to uttering under your breath to an all-knowing deity.”
https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/restorations-of-biblical-proportions-ottawa-2/