This is an uncharacteristic post for this blog: a non-genealogical bleg. On June 1, I will be walking with my sisters, a couple of aunts, a boatload of cousins, and other family and friends, to support care and treatment for…
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Currently reading (and greatly enjoying) Peter Behrens’ The O’Briens. Probably the only novel I’ve ever read that begins with the Famine Irish of Pontiac County, Québec. Up the Pontiac!
Best general guide to Scottish genealogy? to English genealogy?
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If I had to name just one reference guide to Irish genealogy, I would not hesitate to say John Grenham’s Tracing Your Irish Ancestors. As a general, all-purpose guide, there’s no question that this is the book: it is very well-written…
“Mrs. Hugh Walsh, Latonia, Ohio:” Using FamilySearch
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Michael McGlade’s obituary (Perth Courier, 20 January 1905) notes that he was predeceased by his wife Bridget McNulty and by five of their nine children; and that he was survived by three sons and one daughter. Of the five dead children,…
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Deborah Large Fox asks, “Do we own our own histories and life events?”
Irish Catholic Ancestors: How Far Back Can You Go?
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You already know, of course, that you can’t really trace your ancestry back to Niall of the Nine Hostages, or to anyone grand and legendary like that. And you probably also suspect, if your family tree looks anything like mine,…
New Ireland-Canada Website
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The Ireland Canada Story website has gone live.
When bureaucrats blog…
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…they do it as a “pilot project.” The newly launched Library and Archives Canada Blog is apparently a somewhat provisional affair, contingent on (funding? feedback?) some definition of success that will require putting a stop to all blog posts on…
Certificate of Irish Heritage
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Long awaited, much derided, … and finally here. The site has gone live, and you can get your “plastic Paddy cert” through the newly launched Certificate of Irish Heritage website. “Plastic Paddy cert” (so apt, just great) is not my…
Summer Blogging Break
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It’s time for my annual visit to Shaw’s of Perth: Advertisement for Shaw’s, Perth Courier, 10 August 1928. I’m sorry to have missed “the biggest, broadest, and most commanding sale ever held in Perth;” and I doubt they’re still offering…