Monthly Archives: April 2016

Archives for Quebec’s Eastern Townships now online

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Gail Dever

Without any fanfare, the Eastern Townships Archives Portal went online a few days ago. If your ancestors lived in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, this database will become your newest obsession. Thanks to a $44,000 grant from Library and Archives Canada’s Documentary … Continue reading →

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Loyalist descendants to attend conference in PEI this summer

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Gail Dever

Following in the footsteps of the United Empire Loyalists who sought refuge in Prince Edward Island in 1783, more than 200 people are expected to travel to Summerside this July for a conference. Peter Van Iderstine, president of the United … Continue reading →

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Molly Ringwald on ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ tonight

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Gail Dever

Tonight’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are? features actress Molly Ringwald who travels to Sweden to unearth the mysterious heritage of her great-grandfather, known only as “The Swede.” Following him back to his homeland, Ms. Ringwald explores the … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — April 23, 2016

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Remembering the 1997 Great Hunger Commemoration at Grosse île by Joe Gannon on The Wild Geese. Step Two: Create a Timeline by Barbara J. Starmans on Out of My Tree Genealogy. … Continue reading →

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New Brunswick Archives adds birth records for 1920

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Gail Dever

The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick has added the index for 10,978 birth records for 1920 to its website. While the digitized image of the actual record will be added later, the index still provides useful genealogical information, such as … Continue reading →

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Ancestry’s ‘North American’ database includes Canadians

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Gail Dever

Much to my surprise, a fairly new Ancestry database, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, includes people who lived in Canada.When I read Randy Seaver’s blog post, Ancestry.com has Added “North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000” Database, on his blog, Genea-Musings, I … Continue reading →

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LAC’s WWI digitization project and an impatient genealogist

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Gail Dever

A genealogist recently expressed his impatience with what he saw as the lack of progress in Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC) project to digitize 640,000 WWI service files. The comment was made after LAC announced last week it had digitized … Continue reading →

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Webinar tonight — Problem solving with timelines

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Gail Dever

This evening, the Florida State Genealogical Society will host a free webinar, Problem Solving with Timelines, presented by Beth Watson Foulk. It begins at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. When you create a personal timeline of an ancestor’s life, it is … Continue reading →

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‘Quebec’ — starring John Drew Barrymore

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Gail Dever

Paramount Studios has produced many blockbuster films, such as Titanic and Forrest Gump. One of Paramount’s much lesser-known films is Quebec, starring John Drew Barrymore — Drew Barrymore’s father. Quebec is a (very) fictional historical drama about the Patriotes, Voyageurs, … Continue reading →

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View images of Montreal ‘then and now’

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Gail Dever

A McGill University student from Massachusetts has put together a series of Then and Now images of Montreal. According to an article in the Montreal Gazette, Conor Nickerson “photographed modern-day cityscapes and placed them side by side with images from … Continue reading →

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