You know you’re a census geek when you find yourself reading the “Nominal Return(s) of Deaths” from the Canadian census returns. The “Nominal Return of the Deaths within the last twelve months” (1871 Census of Canada, Ontario, Carleton County, Township…
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Researching a Canadian Soldier of World War I
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If you’re researching an ancestor who served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War, two posts by Ken McKinlay (Family Tree Knots) are well worth consulting: “Resources for ‘A Soldier of the Great War: A Research…
The Almonte Gazette Online
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Via John Reid’s Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections, the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum now offers The Almonte Gazette online, indexed and searchable from 1861 to 1989.
Our Roots/Nos Racines: Canadian local histories
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Our Roots/Nos Racines is an online collection of Canadian local histories in both English and French. Well worth searching if you are looking for ancestors in Canada. I have certainly found a few good leads in a couple of local…
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Ancestry.ca is offering free access to its Canadian Military Records until November 12.
“she & her infant family are left totally destitute”: the Widow Hourigan petitions the Crown (part I)
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LAC’s Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865) database is an index to the petitions, with the actual (that is to say, the digitized microforms of the actual) petitions found elsewhere at the LAC site. Somewhat annoyingly, there is no direct link…
1921 Census of Canada now indexed (at Ancestry.ca)
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Great news for census geeks and other researchers: the 1921 Census of Canada has been indexed by Ancestry, and is now searchable by name (and by several other fields, including birth year and location). I just found out a couple…
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Ancestry.ca is currently reporting “11 days til’ 1921!” I take it this means 11 days until the 1921 Census is indexed and searchable by name.
The McCabe List
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The 1921 Census of Canada
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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…