2017 Outstanding Volunteers at Backus-Page House Museum

The following volunteers assisted us in 2017 for Canada 150 and Ontario 150.  They contributed either 150 minutes or 2017 minutes of volunteer service at Backus-Page House Museum.  I know there are more but I can only go with those who handed in their hours.  If we have missed you, please email the office at info@backuspagehouse.ca  and we will update this post.  Awards of recognition will be presented at the Annual General Meeting on February 28, 2018 at 7pm.

2017 Minutes of Volunteering
Betty Ann Bobier
Don Bobier
Brian Elliott
Sue Crow
Liz Elliott
Janice Ellis
Rob Ellis
Beth Goldsworthy
John Goldsworthy
Larry Grafstein
Paula Grafstein
Betty McLandress
Mike Mulhern
Brad Reive
Edith Richardson
Karen Rose
Catie Welch
Dave Welch
John Bobier
 Barb Summers
Hugh McFadden
Delany Leitch


150 Minutes of Volunteering
Patricia Armstrong
Lynne Brady
Mike Brady
Sam Foreman
Allan Froggatt
Martin Joldersma
Carm Pfeiffer
George Postma
Hetty Postma
Ken Reinke
Susan Chapman-Reinke
Rose Kasimer
Brandi Bawden
Edwina Blakely
Brenda Patterson
Jamie Patterson
Cadence Durward
Allison Potter
Mike Hentz
Ingrid Hentz
Darlene Ford
Jim Ford
Joanne Reive
Corry Bachmeier
Bill King
Marg Hulls
W.D. Shaw

Ireland and Scotland with Backus-Page House Museum

http://backuspagehouse.ca/event/the-best-of-scotland-and-ireland/

Family History Friday - Future Learn

I'm currently taking a free online course in Genealogy from www.FutureLearn.com and thought I would share a few things that I've learned during the first week.  Enjoy! - Angela Bobier, Cultural Manager

Genealogy vs. Family History

Genealogy is the retrieval of vital and familial data from records of various types, and its ordering into meaningful relationship patterns.

Family History is the integration of this data with social, economic, political contexts to develop a narrative.

Graham and Emma Maxwell run a genealogy research company based in Scotland called Scottish Indexes.

They began transcribing Scottish censuses in 2001 and realising that these resources would be useful to other people, have made them available online. They have also indexed prison and court records and are hard at work transcribing never-before-indexed parish records from southern Scotland. Their Quaker registers and mental health institution records cover all of Scotland. You can visit their online indexes at: www.scottishindexes.com