M.C. Moran
Catherine Frances McGlade, age 2
Or probably not quite 2 years old. My mother was born 10 October 1939, and I’m guessing this photo was taken in the summer of 1941. So she would have been about 21 or 22 months old here. This photograph…
Continue reading →John Alexander Moran, age 15
John Alexander Moran, 6 September 1934 — 14 March 2013 My father at age 15. I believe this photo was taken in the Gatineaus. My grandfather worked for the Gatineau Power Company; and for at least a couple of years,…
Continue reading →Research Tip of the Day (Oral History Interviews)
If you read genealogy ‘how-to’ books, ‘researching your family history’ guidebooks, advice for oral historians, and so on and so forth, you’ve no doubt already come across this very obvious, but very important, piece of advice. But the advice (or…
Continue reading →The 1921 Census of Canada
is finally available, though not yet indexed by name. It is now available free of charge at ancestry.ca (but without index by name, so you need to know where your ancestors lived in order to readily find them). According to John…
Continue reading →Family ties: how far back do they go?
When my paternal grandparents married in 1932, each was marrying into a familiar family. As I’ve mentioned before, my Moran ancestors and my Lahey ancestors have been linked by intermarriage since the middle of the 19th century. Not that my paternal…
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