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This week’s crème de la crème — January 29, 2022

Posted on January 29, 2022 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsFamilySearch + LAC = Canada, 1851 Census Success by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Behind the Archives’ Door: The Newspaper Project on Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives. Learning about Acadian “blind spots” … Continue reading →

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135 years of McGill University theses a good resource for family historians

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Gail Dever

McGill University has recently completed the digitization of 135 years of theses and dissertations, from 1881 to 2016. This collection of theses is a gold mine of history and social history for genealogists, especially those researching their roots in Lower … Continue reading →

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LAC annual report a good, easy read

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Gail Dever

Annual reports typically make for dry reading. Few people read the finely crafted, but lengthy, text. Instead, we tend to look at the photos and glance at sub-titles. Library and Archives Canada’s 2015-2016 annual report does not fit the usual … Continue reading →

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My latest genealogical distraction — University theses

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Gail Dever

I’m a genealogist. I become easily distracted. And that’s what happened to me once again while I was watching a recorded version of the Bryan Cranston episode of Who Do You Think You Are? See yesterday’s post about this. But … Continue reading →

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