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.
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