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Tag Archives: headstones
This week’s crème de la crème — April 16, 2022
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsLibrary and Archives Canada now offers Monday – Friday service and LAC Departmental Plan 2022-23 by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. New Brunswick’s Loyalist Experiment: Examining the Lives of William Burtis, Robert … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950 US census, blog writing, burials, Google Translate, headstones, Italy, LAC, Library and Archives Canada, Loyalists, military, New Brunswick, New England, Quebec, United Empire Loyalists
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Savoir faire — OGS Niagara Peninsula Branch surpasses volunteer milestone
Last week, the Niagara Peninsula Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society surpassed an important volunteer milestone. After two-and-a-half years of work, branch volunteers, along with members of the public, have posted photos and transcriptions of more than 50,000 headstones from … Continue reading
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Tagged CanadianHeadstones, cemeteries, headstones, Niagara Peninsula Branch OGS
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CanadianHeadstones reaches milestone
CanadianHeadstones.com hit a milestone this weekend when the one millionth headstone photo record was uploaded. Anyone can upload a headstone photo and it is easy to do. Just upload your photo to the website where you can crop it if … Continue reading
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Tagged CanadianHeadstones, cemeteries, headstones
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This week’s crème de la crème — September 20, 2014
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Newly Digitized Microfilms on the Héritage Portal on the Library and Archives Canada Blog. Rockstar Genealogists: Gold Medalists and Rockstar Genealogists: Silver and Bronze Medalists by John D. Reid on Canada’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014 Rockstar Genealogists, blog writing, blogs, civil war, DNA, Empress of Ireland, Finding Your Roots, French Canadian names, Genealogy Hall of Fame, headstones, Héritage, interview, Irish, IrishGenealogy.ie, law students, Montreal street names, National Genealogical Society, Scots, Steve Robinson, tips, writing, WWI
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This week’s crème de la crème — August 16, 2014
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Upper Canada Land Petitions at LAC and 1871 Census of Canada and Other Schedules by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Finding Loyalist Petition Papers on Library and Archives Canada (LAC) … Continue reading
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Tagged 1861 Canada census, 1871 Canada census, Acadian, Alex Haley, British Home Children, Drouin Institute, famine, Findmypast, genealogy for kids, headstones, Ireland, Kew, memorabilia, Quebec civil registers, Roots, shadow box, The National Archives, United Empire Loyalists, Vernon
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This week’s crème de la crème — August 2, 2014
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Are we related? Discover your French-Canadian roots through a family association / Sommes-nous parents? Découvrez vos raciness canadiennes-françaises par l’entremise d’une association de famille on Library and Archives Canada’s blog. Only … Continue reading
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Tagged British Home Children, Canadian websites, cemeteries, church attics, divorce, Dorchester Street Burial Ground, headstones, Ireland, Montreal, Montreal cemeteries, Mount Royal Cemetery, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, RSS feed, Shelburne, societies, South Peace Alberta, St. Antoine Cemetery, United Empire Loyalists, University of Toronto, WDYTYA, white gloves, Winnipeg, WWI
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FamilySearch adds more records to Quebec church database
This week, FamilySearch added 79,535 records to Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 for a total of almost 1.4 million images in this database. This collection contains searchable images of Catholic parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. It also includes some confirmations … Continue reading
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Tagged FamilySearch, headstones, parish records
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