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Family stories are my buried treasure

Tracing ancestors in Canada, England, Scotland & Ireland

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Category: 2018

  • You Can Help Index the 1926 Canadian Census

    You Can Help Index the 1926 Canadian Census

    I have been a little focused (alright obsessed) with the potential release of the 1926 Canadian prairie census. After writing some posts about it I have realized that I (and you) can index the census! It is available as an indexing project at Family Search, I just was on their site and checked. How do…

  • Interior of St. Matthew’s Church, Quebec City

    Interior of St. Matthew’s Church, Quebec City

    A recent trip to Quebec City and I was once again walking paths, cemeteries and the roads of my ancestors. I was able to find out the hours of St. Matthew’s Church which has been converted into a library and made a point of visiting. I had read that the original baptismal font was there…

  • Hold On To Your Hats, The Census is Coming

    Hold On To Your Hats, The Census is Coming

    I have written two previous blog posts about the release of the 1926 Canadian census that covers the western prairie Provinces. 1926 Census to be Released this Year & 1926 Census When – No One Knows The information on Library and Archives Canada website about the ’26 census has not changed but we are not completely…

  • St. Andrew’s Society, Quebec City

    St. Andrew’s Society, Quebec City

    On my recent trip to Quebec City I was reminded that the section of the cemetery my 2x great grandparents are buried in is a section labeled St. Andrew’s Society. An initial search on Google brought up a list of St. Andrew’s Societies, but little on the Quebec City branch. Internet Archive offered a bit…

  • Mount Hermon Cemetery, Sillery, Quebec

    Mount Hermon Cemetery, Sillery, Quebec

    On a recent trip to Quebec City I made two trips to Mount Hermon Cemetery to pay my respects to relatives. There are various members of the Jordan and Norton families laid to rest there. A cool aspect was realizing I had a record at home of the purchase of the headstone for Richard Lee…

  • IT’S ALL THERE IN BLACK & WHITE Sorry, still doesn’t mean it’s true

    IT’S ALL THERE IN BLACK & WHITE Sorry, still doesn’t mean it’s true

    Digging into the family tree often leads to more questions than answers. This time I found the answer. Long before Library and Archives Canada started adding their WWI soldier files online I was systematically ordering the records of family members. (On a side note these records are a treasure and the fact that they are…