Category: Family Tree
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Uncovering My Family in the Québec Hôtel-Dieu Patient Registers
While performing a Full Text search on Family Search, I made a new discovery, which is rather rare for me. It was Registres journaliers des malades, 1689-1876 from the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, the oldest hospital in North America. I clicked in… and was quite thrilled with what I saw. I was able to find a…
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Newspapers at BAnQ
I live 4,000 kilometers away from where I need to do most of my genealogy research and because of that, I rely heavily on what I can locate online. I often go back to a web site and redo searches, try new variations in the hopes that I will come across something new. Yesterday I…
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Connection Made 126 Years Later
It has been slow going for me to link a letter I found in my grandmother’s papers to living family members, but guess what? It has happened. Yesterday I logged onto Ancestry and on the home page, there is an interesting notification that shows up if someone edits a record you have saved to your…
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Sweethearts in the Old County Finally Marry in Canada
This week Amy Johnson Crow has us write about a Valentine. The article I found about my husband’s 2nd great grandfather fits the bill. Gottlieb Wiesner was born in Poland in 1858. It seems according to the news article from the Winnipeg newspaper that he was in the army before immigrating to Canada with his wife…
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Open the DNA Floodgates
The floodgates have opened for me in the last two days and all because of DNA. Yesterday it was all about my Norton family from Great Yarmouth, England. A person emailed me, yes you read that right, they contacted me! Our trees didn’t jive though because I had an error in mine. I had the…
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