Category: Newspapers
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5 Ways I Search The Fulton Newspaper Site
I have been 3 days, yes 3, searching through the Fulton Newspaper site. Here are some key ways I made some fantastic discoveries. If you do not know about the Fulton site it is created, maintained and added to by one guy, ONE GUY. Its official name is Old Fulton NY Postcards and contains over…
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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…
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Oodles of Information in Newspapers for Family History
I think newspapers may be my favorite item to research in my family tree. I love that is real time, I love that it can tell a bit of a story (especially when those are few and far between in my family), I love the detail given in some of the older newspapers but I…
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Sordid Tale of the Steamer The Montreal
Stealing from the dead “…crimps have been reaping a rich harvest by robbing the bodies of the dead” in Quebec City, 1857
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Death Notices – Check Multiple Dates
I would like to encourage you when researching death notices in newspapers to check multiple dates. Yesterday I was browsing through the Quebec Chronicle newspaper, the focus was the date of the death of Hannah Pozer (Jeffery) Norton my 2x great grandmother. Hannah died in Montreal, having had lived most of her life in Quebec…
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The Gazette, Montreal B/M/D – Oct 12, 1957
Here is another installment of birth, marriages, and deaths from newspapers kept by my grandparents, John & Beatrice Dever. Indexed names – The Gazette Oct 12, 1957 Births Arnold Cliffe Connolly Dyson Heath Hyde Lariviere Mathewson Phelan Ross Saunders Ward Whitman Engagements Callicott-Paul Deaths Axelrad Blair Brodie Cleary Clement Dalton Davey Dever Doyle Duplex Dupre Elsy…
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