Category: Quebec City
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More Newspaper Finds at BAnQ
If you follow my blog you will know I have been having an absolute blast searching through old newspaper. The BAnQ (Quebec Archives) site has either made some changes to their search engine, added new papers or I have gotten WAY better at searching! A few of my latest finds include a clipping of A. E.…
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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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Richard Lee Norton’s 200th Birthday
Today marks the birth of Richard Lee Norton in Norfolk, England, my great great grandfather. His father Jeremiah Norton was a shipwright who likely was away from home for months at a time, and his mother Elizabeth Sharp kept the house running. The family lived in Kings Lyn, Norfolk but also seem to have connections…
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What I Found in a WWII Canadian Service File
While I was working on the book I was compiling for the Jordan family I learned that William or Syd as he was known had served in WWII. I filled out the paperwork from Libray and Archives Canada, sent away for the file, and waited. Yesterday it arrived, an initial look through of the file…
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Searching for Mrs. Bridgeford of Quebec City
I am trying to solve the mystery of the Bridgeford family and their connection to the Jordan family of Quebec City. I don’t have a lot of information to go on, not even a date. The limited information I have is from a reply to an inquiry sent by Mrs. Jordan to a Sister at…
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