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This week’s crème de la crème — June 24, 2017

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week to share with you today on Quebec’s Saint-Jean Baptiste Day. Bonne fête! Blogs The OGS Conference June 2017 – attending virtually from afar by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy. Guy … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — November 7, 2015

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Launch of “Immigrants to Canada, Porters and Domestics, 1899–1949” Database on Library and Archives Canada Blog. CEF Pay Scale by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD. Facebook Just Made It … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — May 16, 2015

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Will genealogy societies always just be there? Not necessarily by David Pike on GlobalGenealogy. So What is a Genealogical Society? and NGS 2015 Conference Blog Compendium by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings. … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — April 11, 2015

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Library and Archives Canada Report on Plans and Priorities 2015-2016 and Search Restored for Irish Civil Registration Indexes by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. Why archives matter by Samantha … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — April 4, 2015

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Contractor to the British Army by Janice Hamilton on Writing Up the Ancestors. Find FREE Genealogy Education Resources by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings. If I had to start again, this is … Continue reading →

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18th-century cemetery found in Montreal’s Pointe-aux-Trembles

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Gail Dever

During an archaeological dig early last summer, scientists discovered the remains of an 18th-century French cemetery in Pointe-aux-Trembles, a neighbourhood in the east end of Montreal. The cemetery was used from 1709 to 1843. The scientists uncovered about 60 remains … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — January 31, 2015

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Let It Go? Save or Toss Those Old Family Escrow Papers? by Denise Levenick on The Family Curator. L’hôtel de ville de Montréal by Mario Robert on Archives de Montréal. Dalhousie … Continue reading →

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170 headstones removed from cemetery in Islet-sur-Mer

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Gail Dever

Quebec television network TVA reports that 170 headstones in an old cemetery in Islet-sur-Mer in the province’s Chaudière-Appalaches region have been removed from the burial sites and grouped together along the side of the cemetery. Some of the earliest burials … Continue reading →

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Dozens of graves found under Toronto church parking lot

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Gail Dever

Dozens of sets of century-old human remains have been found under the parking lot of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic church in Toronto’s Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue West area. Archeologists were brought in to do some test digs … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — November 1, 2014

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs The Archives of Ontario… How do I find what’s in it for me? by Jane MacNamara on Where the story takes me… Is a Writing Group Right for You? by Lynn … Continue reading →

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