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Tag Archives: ontario land records
This week’s crème de la crème — August 28, 2021
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsFinding on the Ground: Wrap Up by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Free Nova Scotia High School and College Yearbooks Online, Free Manitoba High School and College Yearbooks Online, Free Saskatchewan … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged 23andMe, African Americans, Alberta, Ancestry, directories, England, Ireland, land records, legacy, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, ontario land records, Russia, Saskatchewan, Scotland, yearbooks
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This week’s crème de la crème — August 21, 2021
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsFinding on the Ground: Ordering from OnLand by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Immigration Before 1865 at Library and Archives Canada Part 4 by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Coming … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged Canada, Canadiana, census, DNA, family history writing, Fold3, immigration, Jewish, medtholody, Ontario, ontario land records, Scotland, Wales, War of 1812
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This week’s crème de la crème — August 7, 2021
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsFinding on the Ground: An Ontario Concession/Lot on a Map by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Immigration before 1865 at Library and Archives Canada Part 3 by Candice McDonald on Finding Your … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged Ancestry, Canada, China, collateral genealogy, DNA, Google My Maps, immigration, Internet Archive, Ireland, land records, methodology, Netherlands, New France, newspapers, Ontario, ontario land records, photos, United States, US civil war
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This week’s crème de la crème — March 27, 2021
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsFinding on the Ground – A Rural Route Address in Ontario by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. What coud LAC do to better serve Canadian Genealogists? and LAC and Canada’s Sad … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, Britain, DNA, family history writing, FamilySearch, Google Images, Holocaust, Jewish, land records, Library and Archives Canada, New France, newspapers, Ontario, ontario land records, PERSI, photos, Quebec, writing
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This week’s crème de la crème — January 13, 2018
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Canadian towns – Genealogy in Maple Ridge & Hammond, B.C. and Finding Your Ancestors in the Yukon, NWT and Nunavut by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy. The NEW OnLand Portal: … Continue reading
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Tagged AncestryDNA, Australia, British Columbia, citations, DNA, Drouin collection, Google Books, Irish, land records, newspapers, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, NWT, Ontario, ontario land records, passenger lists, WWI, Yukon
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This week’s crème de la crème — April 2, 2016
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Two Tips for Searching the Holdings of Two Canadian Archives from their Websites and Digging Deeper into Digitized Microfilm at Library and Archives of Canada: Indexed and Non-Indexed Items Related to … Continue reading
This week’s crème de la crème — February 13, 2016
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Canadians Just Wanted to Use me as a Scullery-Maid and Would You Duel Anything For Love? by Linda Seccaspina on Lindaseccaspina. My Captive Ancestor John Lahey/Jean Lahaie by Jennifer DeBruin on … Continue reading
Lecture about WWI and Ontario estate files
Ontario land records expert and genealogist Jane MacNamara is one of those speakers I have yet to hear, but would sure like to do so. If you live in the Toronto area, here’s your chance. The following notice appeared in … Continue reading
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Tagged ontario estate files, ontario land records, WWI
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