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More tips on Searching in On-Line Newspapers
I keep finding new nuggets about my ancestors in newspapers. Lately I have been spending time researching my Harrop family and I thought I had done a thorough job searching but I am still finding new things. Here are four ways I search through newspapers: Names: Starting with the name variations William Harrop, Wm Harrop,…
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Newspaper Love
A discovery yesterday over at Newspapers.com further proved my theory of the connection of descendants of the Jeffrey family from Quebec. I have written about the Jeffrey family in a series of posts and thanks to a search at the newspaper’s website I have found another link binding the descendants. If you are curious here…
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Update to the Quebec City Prison Database
A new discovery when I was on the BAnQ website (Quebec Archives) they have updated their Prison record index. My family seems to have used the facility quite often over the years and I have benefited from the index. Well, first I was a little shocked and once I was done processing what the records…
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Death Record for Elizabeth (Sharp) Norton
Some time ago a DNA match sent me a message, and yes, I was contacted, not doing the contacting. The DNA Jeannine who lives in Australia was a DNA match to my great uncle Herb Jordan who I tested at Family Tree DNA. Initially, Herb had done the Y DNA test but since FTDNA stores…
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Military Photographs WWI
Yesterday I received a message from a cousin who said he had scanned a few more pictures from his dad’s collection. I had the time to look at the pictures last night and was surprised to see some military photos. One picture was from a Musketry School in Montreal taken in 1917. I quickly suspected…
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Finding the People in the Pictures
Sept. 19th was a great day, a cousin sent me 12 images that she had in her collection. All but one were photos I had never seen before of the McMahon family. My cousin had identifications for most of them but I have to say, days of research has not uncovered the others. Although she did…
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