Monthly Archives: July 2015

Highland Games weekend begins today

If you live in the Montreal-Eastern Ontario area and enjoy listening to bagpipe bands, watching highland dancers and athletes, and eating Scottish food, this is your weekend. Starting today, July 31, is the two-day Glengarry Highland Games in Maxwell, Ontario, … Continue reading

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Free Old Montreal walking tour app now available

My days of giving guided walking tours to family members-who-would-rather-not-listen are over. The free historical walking tour of Old Montreal app, produced by Montréal en Histoire, is now available. The app enables users to enjoy twelve augmented reality experiences and … Continue reading

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WDYTYA? features JK Rowling and a trip to France

This week on Who Do You Think You Are?, author JK Rowling will set off on a journey to uncover her maternal French roots. She will finally solve a family mystery, uncover a harrowing tale of wartime heroism, and discover … Continue reading

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Expansion of Google Translate app makes travelling in foreign countries easier

Travelling in countries to do family history research where you do not understand the language just became easier. Google announced yesterday it has updated its Google Translate app to expand instant visual translation to 20 more languages, for a total … Continue reading

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New Fichier Origine website launched

The Quebec federation of genealogy societies, the Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie, announced its Fichier Origine website has a new look, and it certainly looks cleaner and easier to read than the old site. Fichier Origine is a collection … Continue reading

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Timeline of Montreal neighbourhood, Griffintown

If your ancestors lived in Griffintown, you may be interested in the timeline the Montreal Gazette published Saturday as part of its series about the transformation of the Montreal working-class neighbourhood. Griffintown, the “industrial birthplace of Canada,” was home to … Continue reading

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St. Andrews East Presbyerian Church celebrates 200th anniversary

St. Andrews East Presbyterian Church in Saint-André d’Argenteuil, Quebec will celebrate its 200th anniversary on Sunday, August 2, at 2:00 p.m. In a notice published in the Montreal Gazette, the church says, “We have rebuilt after every disaster, and we … Continue reading

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17th-century remains identified in Jamestown, Virginia

Smithsonian scientists have identified the remains of four men who were among the early leaders of Virginia’s Jamestown, the first permanent British settlement in what would become the United States. The bodies were exhumed in November 2013 in the church … Continue reading

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The ‘real Banished’ in Findmypast

So, how did you enjoy the first part of the drama series Banished last night on CBC? I recorded it on my PVR (DVR) to watch later. The program first aired several months ago in Britain. You can read about … Continue reading

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Tracing your English ancestors from Essex — in Boston

There are four things I love about Boston: it has great shopping, beautiful historical architecture, and fantastic dining, and it is only a five-hour drive from Montreal. Now, as if I needed one, there is another reason I should return … Continue reading

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