“You are a dog, and this is YOUR bone”
Some excellent advice by professional genealogist John Grenham, whose Irish Roots column is a must-read.
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Where is the 1921 Census?
Where is the 1921 Census of Canada? On June 4, 2013, it was supposed to “be available to researchers in the next few weeks.” It’s July 12, 2013. That’s more than a “few” weeks.
Continue reading →School Photo from…St. Malachy’s? St. Patrick’s?
This is a wonderful group photo, taken, I presume, on the steps of a school. I only wish I knew which school. My dad is in the second row, third from the left (here indicated with a blue arrow —…
Continue reading →A 9-year-old boy who died “of the disease of Irish emigrants”
This was posted on Facebook, by the Institut généalogique Drouin (but the screencap below is from ancestry.ca: Quebec, Vital and Church Records [Drouin Collection], 1621-1967). It is the burial record for a nine-year-old boy named Henry Gill, “décédé de la…
Continue reading →Free Irish Records for 4 Days
Via John Reid’s Anglo-Celtic Connections, Findmypast is offering free access to its Irish birth, marriage, and death records for four days, from 27-30 June. This gesture of generosity from the UK-based Findmypast as an apparent commemoration of the destruction by…
Continue reading →How tall was Denis Killeen?
How tall was my 3x-great-grandfather Denis Killeen (1786-1850)? According to his record of service, he was 5 foot 8 when he enlisted in the 97th Regiment of Foot at the age of 18, in 1804; and six years later, at…
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