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Welcome to Ottawa Valley Irish: A Family History Weblog and Genealogy Database. This website covers the family histories of a…
Welcome to Ottawa Valley Irish: A Family History Weblog and Genealogy Database. This website covers the family histories of a…
Norma Gillespie is researching her Gillespie ancestors, who originally came from Screeby, Co. Tyrone (but very near the border with…
Death records often supply interesting (and occasionally rather gruesome) details about an ancestor’s cause of death. And while the information…
Some of the work performed by my Canadian (including my Ireland-to-Canada emigrant) labourer ancestors: Worked in agriculture as farm labourers…
And Bob’s Your Uncle… Sometimes it really helps to have a genealogy program that can calculate and display more than…
A DNA Match Suggests an Answer A number of years ago, when I was researching my Killeen ancestry, I asked:…
Where did Michael James McGlade Reside? Sometimes you can’t find a person, no matter how carefully and thoroughly you look….
So I got the results from my 23andMe ancestral DNA testing. Turns out I’m a caveman: Developing (and still evolving)…
A reader is looking for information about her Devey (Devy, Davy, McDavie) ancestors, who presumably emigrated from Ireland to Canada…