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Tag Archives: homesteading
Learning about your ancestors who travelled to western Canada in early 1900s
Colleen posted a good question on the Genealogy à la carte Facebook group earlier this week, and she receive great answers. She wanted to know if any passenger train lists exist in Canada. The short answer to Colleen’s question was … Continue reading
This week’s crème de la crème — August 19, 2017
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Acadian Ancestors: Using the Nova Scotia Archives by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. The Alberta Homestead Process on Tree Time Archaeology. The Money of New France and Genealogie Quebec: A Valuable Resource … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged Alberta, AncestryDNA, blogs, cemeteries, DNA, Documentary Heritage Communities Program, famine, GEDmatch, homesteading, Irish, Irish Famine, Loyalists, Montreal, New Brunswick, New France, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, UEL, United Empire Loyalists
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This week’s crème de la crème — February 25, 2017
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Trace Your Roots at the Scotiabank Family History Centre by Caroline Michaud on Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. Vital Statistics Part 6 – Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut by Candice McDonald … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Canadians, black loyalists, blogs, Canadian Museum of Immigration, DNA, homesteading, Irish, McGill University, McGill University Library and Archives, Ontario, Pier 21
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Your top 15 online genealogy collections in 2016
Looking back over the past twelve months at what captured genealogists’ attention, it seems this was not the best year for exciting new Canadian collections. With the exception of Library and Archives Canada’s ongoing digitization of Canadian Expeditionary Forces service … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Genealogy
Tagged aboriginal, Alberta, Algonquin, Ancestry, British, Canadian Expeditionary Force, CEF, directories, Eastern Townships Archives Portal, Eastern Townships Resource Centre, Find A Grave, First Nations, Geneanet, homesteading, Irish, Italian, Library and Archives Canada, looking back, Maine, McGill University, newspapers, notarial records, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Quebec notarial records, theses, Upper Canada, Vatican, Vatican library, War of 1812, WWI
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New Canadian collections on Ancestry
Ancestry recently launched two new Canadian collections: Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, Homestead Grant Registers, 1872-1930, and Canada, Photographic Albums of Settlement, 1892-1917. Homestead grant registers The Homestead Grant Registers, 1872-1930, collection contains 668,623 records of registers of applications for … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta, homesteading, Manitoba, photos, Saskatchewan
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This week’s crème de la crème — April 16, 2016
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Personnel Service Files – Update of April 2016 on the Library and Archives Canada Blog. Gems in Homestead Files by Patricia Greber on My Genealogy … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, Franco-Americans, Grey Nuns, homesteading, Irish, Irish Famine, John Grenham, Louis Riel, Loyalists, Manitoba, Ontario, United Empire Loyalists, Vimy Ridge, WWI service files
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AGS invites us to compare Ancestry’s Alberta homestead index to theirs
Last week Ancestry launched the Alberta Homestead Records, and I published a blog post about it and a follow-up about a tip from blogger John Michael Neill about how to use the Alberta Genealogical Society’s index to research the homestead … Continue reading
How to research the Alberta homestead records for free
Genealogy blogger Michael John Neill has a solution for genealogists who want to search the Alberta homestead records, but who don’t subscribe to Ancestry.ca or Ancestry World Deluxe. Judging by the number of reviews my blog post, Ancestry launches Alberta … Continue reading
This week’s crème de la crème — February 6, 2016
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Alberta Homestead Records Document a Citizenship by Michael John Neill on RootDig. Québec notarial records by Sheilagh Doerfler on Vita Brevis. Nova Scotia Cemeteries Website by Diane Tibert on Roots to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta, blogs, England, English, Essex County, Findmypast, homesteading, Irish, Kitchener, notarial records, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Quebec notarial records
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Ancestry adds Canadian soldier homestead grant registers
Ancestry.ca has added a new Canadian set of records, but I have yet to find much detail in them that would prove useful to my research. Then again, it could be because I only searched for common names, such as … Continue reading
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