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All About That Place 2024

It’s finally here – All About That Place 2024, a free 10-day online international event focusing on place-based research. There are several talks each day (140 in total) and there …

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Update on All About that Place

I recorded my presentation for All About That Place #aatp2024. It was important to me that the presentation was recorded today because it was exactly 78 years ago on August …

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All About That Place 2024

I am excited to announce the organizers of All About That Place 2024 have accepted my proposal about my maternal grandmother’s village Lichten, Czech Republic for inclusion in this year’s …

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New Speaking Event

On June 28, 2024 I will be speaking with the Boomers and Beyond group at the Cobourg Public Library. We will be exploring how gravestones can provide insights and clues …

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In remembrance….

Every year at Remembrance Day I think about how my family’s destiny was shaped by WW2. Much of my family lived in German speaking areas of what is now Poland …

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Coffin Hardware Presentation

Decorating the Dead: Coffin Hardware and the Farewell Cemetery Presented by Laura Suchan and Melissa Cole, Oshawa Museum I am pleased to be presenting at the upcoming Oshawa Historical Society …

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Remembering the 1918 Flu Pandemic

This post was originally published on the Oshawa Museum Blog oshawamuseum.wordpress.com I was inspired by a colleague to take a closer look at victims of the 1918 Flu pandemic buried …

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Receiving Vaults

If you ever wondered what a receiving vault was used for check out this blog post I wrote for the Oshawa Museum. I was fortunate, along with Curator Melissa Cole, …