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Posted on 1 March 2017by M.C. Moran

Welcome to Ottawa Valley Irish: A Family History Weblog and Genealogy Database. This website covers the family histories of a…

Posted on 4 April 2019by M.C. Moran

Denis Galligan, son of Patrick Galligan (c.1807-1870) and Mary Cullen (c. 1807-1843), was born about 1841 in the townland of…

Posted on 19 March 2019by M.C. Moran

Years ago now (in the early summer of 2011, as I recall), I took my Dad to the Ottawa-Carleton Land…

Posted on 16 September 2017by M.C. Moran

Norma Gillespie is researching her Gillespie ancestors, who originally came from Screeby, Co. Tyrone (but very near the border with…

Posted on 14 September 2017by M.C. Moran

Death records often supply interesting (and occasionally rather gruesome) details about an ancestor’s cause of death. And while the information…

Posted on 4 September 2017by M.C. Moran

Some of the work performed by my Canadian (including my Ireland-to-Canada emigrant) labourer ancestors: Worked in agriculture as farm labourers…

Posted on 30 August 2017by M.C. Moran

And Bob’s Your Uncle… Sometimes it really helps to have a genealogy program that can calculate and display more than…

Posted on 6 June 2017by M.C. Moran

A DNA Match Suggests an Answer A number of years ago, when I was researching my Killeen ancestry, I asked:…

Posted on 11 April 2017by M.C. Moran

Where did Michael James McGlade Reside? Sometimes you can’t find a person, no matter how carefully and thoroughly you look….