Happy New Year Ontario Project members!
The recategorization of Ontario’s locations continues. If you see a place of birth or death changed on one of your profiles and “Recategorization of Ontario categories in process” or “Added category: Ontario Project categorization of early settlers” in the “Explain your changes” box, here’s the reason. We are simplifying the location categories so that they are easier to find. Once this is done, you’ll be able to check the “Punkeydoodle, Upper Canada” category under “Punkeydoodle” rather than “Town of Punkeydoodle” and find your ancestors’ neighbours or even possible family members. While working on the categories, we are linking early families if we see a connection that hasn’t been made.
Another change you may notice: the Notable Ontarians template is being replaced with a sticker (thanks, Mags). {{Ontarian Sticker}} The Ontario Project is a sub-project of the Canadian History Project, so we should be using a sticker rather than a project template.
And as a bonus to members, and to force me out into the cold, if you find a source on the Toronto Reference Library website that you would like me to consult, please private email me and I’ll put on my woollies and venture out. I need to do some research there myself, so you'd be doing me a favour!
Please continue to add sources to our Resources section and let us know what you've been up to and any suggestions for our project that you may have.
Thanks,
Laurie (Project Coordinator)