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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Breaking news, Family Search has added the index for the 1926 Canadian Prairie Province Census. Some of the indexes are linked to the images, but not all. If the image is there it will appear on the right side if no image appears, there are a couple of steps to take to find it. Use…
The number of people that are interested in the release of the 1926 Prairie census is telling by the amount of people that look at my posts about it. I had to let you know, we now have access to the census. They have added the Canadian 1926 Prairie census to their catalog at Family…
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…
