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Tag Archives: Halloween
This week’s crème de la crème — October 25, 2025
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsThe Latest in Franco-American History by Patrick Lacroix on Query the Past. LAC Celebrates Sir Arthur Doughty and MyHeritage adds 1921 England & Wales Census by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. … Continue reading
This week’s crème de la crème — October 28, 2017
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Halloween in Peel: A Look at Some Selected Records by Kyle Neill on Archives @ PAMA. Circle Of Life: Ontario Vital Records by Cindi Foreman on My Moynahan Genealogy. Eastern Canada … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged Australia, blogs, Carignan Regiment, Carignan-Salières Regiment, cemeteries, DNA, FamilySearch, filles du roi, Halloween, Montreal, Norway, Ontario, Quebec, rockstar genealogists
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This week’s crème de la crème — November 1, 2014
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
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged Archives of Ontario, Australia National Archives, blogs, cemetery, copyright, costumes, crimanals, crime, crowd-sourcing, digitizing records, family history writing, genealogical proof standard, genealogy for kids, Guy Drummond, Halloween, internment camps, Ireland, John Grenham, murder, Ontario, organizing, societies, Ukrainians, vampire, War of 1812, writing, WWI
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