Tag Archives: obituaries

This week’s crème de la crème — November 4, 2017

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Tracing Your Canadian Military Ancestors by Patricia Greber on My Genealogy Life. Find Canadian Genealogy Articles by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy. Canada Bound – British Home Children – Genealogy … Continue reading →

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Drouin Genealogical Institute renames its English website

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Gail Dever

The Drouin Genealogical Institute has changed the English name of its website from Quebec Records to Genealogy Quebec to make it clearer about its purpose and to better align with the French version, which has always been Généalogie Québec. The … Continue reading →

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Kings County, New Brunswick Death Index, 1897-1936

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Gail Dever

If there’s a possibility your ancestors lived in New Brunswick, you may want to look at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick’s latest online database for King’s County. The Kings County Record Newspaper: Death Index, 1897-1936 contains an index to … Continue reading →

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More than 100,000 Ontario, Quebec & NY obits and headstones online at Cornwall Roots

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Gail Dever

Update: The Cornwall Roots website was shut down in early 2018. Catherine McKay, relict of Alex. Mullin, died on Sunday, Jan. 7, having reached the allotted span of three score and ten. — Obituary, January 1900, unknown newspaper. If you … Continue reading →

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Drouin Institute adds more than 150,000 obituaries to its extensive collection

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Gail Dever

I have good news and more good news. First the good news. The Drouin Institute announced it has added more than 20,000 obituaries from the 1940s to the 1980s to its website, GenealogieQuebec.com. The obituaries are from Quebec newspapers, mostly … Continue reading →

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Crème de la crème — October 4, 2014

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Gail Dever

The bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Acadian French – analysis on American-Canadian border by Juliana L’Heureux, The Franco-American Blog. Grant to help Glenwood digitize documents on CountyLive.ca Blog. All editions of 1914’s Church of Ireland Gazette online by Claire … Continue reading →

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FamilySearch and GenealogyBank announce agreement to post more than one billion obits online

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Gail Dever

If you have ancestors who lived in the US, you will be happy to learn about yesterday’s news. In celebration of Family History Month, FamilySearch International and GenealogyBank announced an agreement to make more than a billion records from historical … Continue reading →

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Drouin Institute updates its Quebec records collection

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Gail Dever

Yesterday, the Institut généalogique Drouin announced updates to its Quebec Records Collection.  1. LAFRANCE. Marriages for 1913 has now links to images. 14,700 new links. 2. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles québécoises de l’origine jusqu’à 1730 is now online (The Jetté … Continue reading →

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