Women's Workshop

CALL FOR SPEAKERS:

The Women in Our Past: Strategies and Resources for Researching
Female Ancestors

Workshop, November 6, 2010
North York Central Library Auditorium
5120 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario

The Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch, in collaboration with the Canadiana Department of North York Central Library, Toronto Public Library, will be holding a day-long workshop on Saturday, November 6, 2010, on researching female ancestors.

We are looking for proposals for presentations, both focused and more general, at various skill levels. Presentations should emphasize the record sources available for researching the lives of our female ancestors. Possible topics include:

The legal and political framework of women’s lives
Women’s occupations
Women and war
Women outside the law
Women’s involvement in religious and charitable organizations
Topics relating to specific countries or ethnic groups
DNA and maternal ancestry research
Artifacts as women’s record sources
Pioneer women
Unusual sources for women’s records
Case studies

Each session will be one hour long, including five or ten minutes for questions. Presentations should be illustrated – we can provide a computer projector. Speakers will also be expected to provide a handout of supporting material (up to four pages) which we will copy for all registrants.

Speakers will be paid an honorarium of $100 CDN per one hour lecture, plus modest expenses.

Please submit your lecture proposals by e-mail. Please keep them brief and informal at this point. (We may ask for more details later.) Be sure to include your mailing address, phone number, and a brief bio.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: Friday, April 30, 2010

To submit proposals or obtain further information please contact Elayne Lockhart at Elayne.lockhart@primus.ca

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