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Tag Archives: Upper Canada
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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This week’s crème de la crème — November 12, 2016
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs First World War Canadian Veterans Claim Cards and Canadian Veterans Death Cards: First World War by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. Searching the Heir & Devisee Commission for Canadian … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged archives, Australia, blogs, England, genealogy gifts, gifts, London Gazette, Ontario, Upper Canada, WWI, WWII
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Consider adding these Canadian history booklets to your genealogy toolbox
Library and Archives Canada offers a digitized series of historical booklets on its website that should be in the genealogy research toolbox of family historians who research their Canadian ancestors. Published by the Canadian Historical Association (CHA), from 1953 to … Continue reading
Posted in Canada
Tagged Acadians, Canadian Historical Association, Library and Archives Canada, New France, Quebec, research toolbox, social history, Ukrainians, Upper Canada
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135 years of McGill University theses a good resource for family historians
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
Posted in Canada
Tagged Lower Canada, McGill University, New France, Quebec, theses, thesis, Upper Canada
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Records of prisoners of the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada
Since I am back in my home province for a few days to attend and speak at the Ontario Genealogical Society’s (OGS) annual conference in Toronto, it seems appropriate to write about a free new genealogy resource, Penitentiary Patriots: Upper … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario
Tagged 1837 Rebellion, Upper Canada
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This week’s crème de la crème — March 26, 2016
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Early Protestants in Early Canada? Check the Marriage Bonds 1779 – 1858, Upper & Lower Canada on Gone Researching. On almost discovering another chapter in the story of a British Home … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged blogs, British Home Children, Evernote, Facebook, Franco-Americans, genealogical proof standard, Ireland, Irish, Maine, maps, marriage bonds, Ontario, social media, societies, Upper Canada, writing
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This week’s crème de la crème — October 17, 2015
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Montreal’s Old Burying Ground by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD. Finding Tips for Using the Upper Canada Sundries by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on Legacy Family Tree. What a Great … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged best practices, blogs, family history writing, legacy, Loyalists, Montreal, Ontario, Upper Canada
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Learn what happened to the French who fled to Canada during French Revolution
The Société généalogique canadienne-française (SGCF), the French Canadian genealogical society in Montreal, tweeted yesterday about a new book, Les Français émigrés au Canada pendant la Révolution française et le Consulat : 1789-1804, by Marcel Fournier. The book tells the story … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario, Quebec
Tagged books, France, Lower Canada, Upper Canada
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Book about 1837 Rebellion contains names of captives and traitors
Global Genealogy has added a new book, Patriotes, Reformer, Rebels & Raiders: Tracing your ancestors during the ‘troublous’ times in Upper and Lower Canada 1820-1851, to its catalogue that may interest genealogists with ancestors who lived in Upper and Lower Canada … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario, Quebec
Tagged 1837 Rebellion, Kenneth G. Cox, Lower Canada, patriotes, Upper Canada
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Ontario Historical Society reviews books on War of 1812
Are you still reading about the War of 1812 or interested in doing so? The Ontario Historical Society has added two new reviews to its list of book reviews about the War of 1812. The latest books reviewed are The … Continue reading
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Tagged Upper Canada, War of 1812
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