“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…
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