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Month: July 2014

French Canadian “dit” names

Catholic Records, Names26 July 2014by M.C. Moran

Here is ancestry.ca’s record listing for the baptism of Marie Cleophie [Cléophée] Cheval, daughter of Joseph Cheval and Marie Louise Goneau: And here is ancestry.ca’s record listing for the marriage of Cleophes [Marie Cléophée] Cheval to Pierre Dubeau, son of…

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GRO Indexes now temporarily unavailable

Civil Records, Irish Records26 July 2014by M.C. Moran

A few weeks ago, I posted a link to the GRO Indexes at IrishGenealogy.ie. And a week or two after that post, the indexes became “temporarily unavailable.” There is no indication, yet, of when they will be back online. Update:…

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1836 petition of inhabitants of Bathurst and Ottawa districts

Canadian Records, Census Substitutes12 July 2014by M.C. Moran

As I mentioned in my previous post, there is now a huge amount of LAC (Library and Archives Canada) material at Canadiana.org’s Héritage website. This material includes 94 digitized microfilm reels of LAC’s Upper Canada Sundries (RG 5 A1), 1766-1841 series….

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Early Ontario Protestant parish registers online

Canadian Records, Protestant Records11 July 2014by M.C. Moran

The partnership between Library and Archives Canada and Canadiana.org over the next ten years involves the digitization, indexing and description of millions of personal, administrative and government documents. It will triple LAC’s digital content on the Web, and allow Canadians to…

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GRO Indexes now online

Civil Records, Irish Records6 July 2014by M.C. Moran

Indexes to the Registers of the General Register Office (GRO) Civil Records are now online at Irish Genealogy.ie. These are the indexes to Irish civil birth, marriage and death records from 1864 (with non-Catholic marriages from 1845). You can search…

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More on Signs of Catholicity

Canadian Records, Catholic Records1 July 2014by M.C. Moran

In Signs of Catholicity, I linked to a blog entry by Gilles Cayoutte of Le chercheur nomade/The Nomadic Researcher, concerning the Catholic burial of an unknown man who had drowned in the St. Lawrence. In this burial record, the priest…

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John Alexander Moran Photo Gallery:

  • Rosemary and John Moran
  • Rosemary and John Moran, at Tunney's Pasture, by the Ottawa River
  • John Alexander Moran, Ottawa (Armstrong St.?), c. 1937.
  • John and Rosemary, in front of Carleton Tavern
  • St. Patrick's Collegiate
  • John Alexander Moran, age 15
  • L. Lahey, John Alexander Moran, and Rosemary Moran
  • Frobisher Bay, mid-1950s
  • At a party, Ottawa, early 1960s, with cousin Orville Lahey in the background
  • Boxing Day wedding, 26 December 1963: John Alexander Moran and Catherine Frances McGlade
  • In the Canadian Rockies, summer 1967
  • At the convent of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, Kingston, ON, ca. 1976.
  • Johnny's seafood chowder, Ogunquit, ME, mid-1980s.
  • Johnny's Mystery Tour: Sea-Faring Edition. Somewhere off the coast of New Hamsphire, 1992.
  • On his way out to canvass for cancer research funds, September 2010
  • In hospital, with grandson Emmet visiting, June 2012

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