Zorra Digitization Day Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 10am – 2pm!

Hello Everyone,
Please see this guest post from the Zorra Heritage Committee:

Do you have old photos, documents, memorabilia from growing up in Zorra or handed down by family in East Nissouri, Embro, North Oxford or West Zorra?

If yes, please consider making electronic copies – for extra security backup, for easier sharing, to use in scrapbooking or to include in family histories.

It’s wise to digitize!

Join the Zorra Heritage Committee and museum staff at Beachville District Museum on Saturday, October 25th from 10am-2pm for their third Digitization Day.

Community members are invited to bring up to 3 items to be digitized and returned to them along with copies of the digital files. Copies of the files will also be retained by Beachville District Museum as reference material.

Digitization of local, historical materials will help to ensure that important pieces of our local heritage are preserved for future research and the enjoyment of the next generations.

Advance registration is encouraged and can be completed online via the link found at https://beachvilledistrictmuseum.com/events/digday2025 or by the calling the museum at (519) 423-6497.


If you would like your event or article published (relating to Oxford County ON or South-Western ON), on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca

Oxford Branch Ontario Ancestors Meeting- October 20th, 2025 @7pm via Zoom!

Hello Everyone,
Please see this guest post from the Ontario Ancestors:

“Tillsonburg’s Nightingales; Nursing Sisters in WWI” with Laurel Beechey

The Canadian nurses who served in World War I were called Bluebirds because of their blue uniforms and white veils.  Laurel will guide us through the journey of five young nurses from the Tillsonburg area, leaving home and through their service with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. They are our unsung heroines. Caution – some pictures are graphic.  

This is a virtual meeting of Oxford Branch of Ontario Ancestors. Everyone is welcome! To register for the meeting, please visit our website at https://oxford.ogs.on.ca to find the link to join the meeting.

If you have any questions, please contact us at oxford@ogs.on.ca or call 519-421-1700.


If you would like your event or article published (relating to Oxford County ON or South-Western ON), on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca

OxHS Presentation on Wednesday, October 29, 2025!

Condemned Woodstock!

Hello Everyone,
Please join the OxHS in welcoming our special guest Jennie Grevers, for an evening filled with dramatic tales and historical accounts of the executions that shaped Woodstock, people who faced the gallows and how their lives and deaths impacted Oxford County!

‼️Reminder- we have a new venue for our meetings ‼️Chartwell Oxford Gardens at 423 Devonshire Ave, Woodstock is our new location. We are grateful that they offered the space and the opportunity to keep our Historical presentations available with no cost to the public- whether you are a member or not.

To download and share this event, click on this link to: Condemned Woodstock!

This presentation will take place at the Chartwell Oxford Gardens at 6:30pm!

This is a free event and open to all!


If you would like your event or article published (relating to Oxford County ON or South-Western ON), on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca

October is Family History Month!

Hello Everyone,
Please see this guest post from the Ontario Ancestors:

You, your friends and colleagues are cordially invited to attend the launch of Family History Month by the Oxford County Branch of Ontario Ancestors.  

This Open House event is being held on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at The Governor’s House (Oxford Genealogical Society) 82 Light Street, Woodstock ON from 10 am until noon.

Dedicated to supporting and promoting genealogical and family history research since 1979, we focus on collecting and preserving information that will be useful for anyone researching ancestors who lived in Oxford County and beyond its borders.  

The Mary Liley Reading Room Resource Library, located in the Governor’s House, is open to the public on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 am to 4 pm.  

During Family History Month, new researchers will be given a starter kit with tips for finding their ancestors and essential forms to keep all the names and dates organized.  Opportunities for signing up for genealogy classes or exploring your DNA results will be available.

Staffed by experienced volunteers who can demonstrate finding obituaries, wills, land records, township history books, church histories, historical atlases, Tweedsmuir Local Histories, military,
cemetery transcriptions for the 102 cemeteries in Oxford County, over 500 family histories, specific to Oxford County families and much more. The volunteers are available to answer questions and help visitors locate information to fill in the branches of their family tree or use the computers and microfilm reader.  During Family History Month, we are offering free scanning of albums or scrapbooks (bring your own USB).

We would appreciate your help in promoting this event by posting the attached flyer: Family History Month on your community bulletin board and spreading the event by word-of-mouth.
If you have any questions, please contact us at oxford@ogs.on.ca or call 519-421-1700.


If you would like your event or article published (relating to Oxford County ON or South-Western ON), on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca

OxHS Presentation on Wednesday, September 24, 2025!

Industrial Woodstock!

Hello Everyone,
please join us for Wes Magill’s presentation as he takes us through the history of “Industrial Woodstock”.
To download and share this event, click on this link to: Industrial Woodstock
This presentation will take place at the Woodstock Museum, NHS. Doors open at 6:15, meeting starts at 6:30pm. This is a free event and open to all!


If you would like your event or article published (relating to Oxford County ON or South-Western ON), on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca