Ontario Genealogical Society’s 2017 Conference that will be held in Ottawa June 15-18, has added an aptly named Ancestry Day to take place on June 19th. The Conference already has a full weekend of genealogy learning starting with their excursions on Thursday (* the trip to Library and Archives Canada is already full) followed by three days of…
Alberta has a bad rap for genealogical records, but it isn’t the black hole of the West as most people think. Well maybe isn’t as easy as its counterparts like Saskatchewan Vital Records or Manitoba but the records are there. Vital records are available at the Provincial Archives (PAA) for Births that are over 120 years…
I first started researching my family tree in the basement of my home which was located in a very remote place in Northern Alberta. I was a stay-at-home mom with two young children and was a tad lonely. I found I could research in small quick moments during the day and sometimes in the evening…
I have decided to participate in the #52stories project that Family Search is promoting. They have created prompts encouraging people to write about themselves and their experiences. Initially, I felt that I didn’t have a lot to write about, I didn’t grow up saddling a horse to get to school or have personal stories about…
Reposting this for the 11-day Military Challenge Yesterday I spent some time searching on-line at the Library and Archives Canada’s website focusing on the Orders in Council. The records cover the years 1867-1924, and are further explained on the site as: A federal Order-in-Council is a legal instrument made by the Governor in Council pursuant to a statutory authority…
I would like to ask anyone who has done DNA testing at ancestry to link a tree to their test. You can make multiple trees at ancestry which means that you can create a DNA tree. This means that your whole family tree does not have to be made public. What I did is create…
I am a directionally challenged person (my family gets a kick out of me getting lost leaving my hotel room) so I have generally avoided maps in my research. I may look things up quickly (thank goodness for google maps!) but I haven’t gone deeper. Well, that is changing. With some wonderful advice from a…
I wanted to do a post in celebration of my great grandfather William Lewis Harrop’s birthday. William was the fifth and last child born to parents Lewis Harrop and Anna Eliza Stickle. William was born in the 25 of September in 1854, in Etobicoke, Ontario. The Harrop family had moved from New York sometime between…
I wanted to give a shout out to my grandmother who was born 115 years ago today, September 20, 1901 in Quebec City. My grandma Beatrice Jordan was the first born daughter of Peter and Caroline. Beatrice married John Dever in Montreal in 1928. Beatrice had many interests, one of them was her family history.…
Genealogy serendipity seems to be quite common, almost everyone has a story to tell. Although not the first time I have had this sensation and probably not the last, I had one of those moments today that could be described as coincidental or maybe something more. Recently I have been getting assistance with my Quebec research…
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