MGS is calling on MGS members to nominate a MGS Volunteer for one of our annual volunteer awards. We give out three awards at our Annual General Meeting. THE ERIC JONASSON AWARD OF MERIT CRITERIA The Eric Jonasson Award of Merit is only given to one person …
Christian FAHRNI (1848-1915) Born in Switzerland on 07 August 1848, he moved to Iowa in 1867 then came to Fort Garry in 1873 where, in company with Charles Allard, he engaged in a horse-trading and livery business. Farmer On 12 July 1881, he married Priscilla …
MGS has been upgrading it’s online presence for the past few years. Thank you to our team of volunteers who have given their input into what they want to see, and their time to help implement those changes. Updates So Far On August 22, 2021, …
George Languer EAMER (1868-1945) Born in Wroxeter, Ontario on 19 February 1868, he was the son of Peter Eamer (1837-1923) and Margaret Thompson (c1835-1880). He came with his wife to Manitoba in 1889. They rented farms for several years then bought land at 20-7-19, two …
RootsTech is an annual conference put on by Family Search. It is the largest genealogical conference in the world with sessions in multiple languages, and is an in-person as well as an online conference. With over 100 speakers to choose from, you are sure to …
Submitted by Rick Brown, Project Chair project@mbgenealogy.com MGS Member Genealogical Project Back before all the current privacy issues many members filled out family pedigree charts. We plan to use the information to enter the names into MANI and create spreadsheets showing names, date of birth, …
The website Finding Lost Russian and Ukrainian Families regularly posts when records have been digitized and updated. In this new blog article, Efforts to Digitize and Post Records Online Going Strong at Ukrainian Archives, many new records are described spanning new records from Oct 2022 …
The Brandon Residential School Cemeteries Project Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 7:30 pm Katherine Nichols (Joint presentation with Southwest Branch) Katherine L. Nichols is a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University (SFU). Her research applies forensic search and recovery methods to investigate missing children at …
The Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) has the following upcoming presentations. MGS and the OGS have a reciprocal membership agreement where members in one organization gets a reduced membership rate for the other organization. There are two upcoming events they would like …
James Henry CADHAM (1850-1907) Born in London, Canada West [now Ontario], on 31 August 1850, son of Thomas Cadham (1811-1864) and Eliza Ann Orchard (c1830-1866) and brother to John Orchard Cadham. His parents were natives of England and early settlers of Canada. His father operated …