Indexing of 1921 Census of Canada
Ancestry.ca is currently reporting “11 days til’ 1921!” I take it this means 11 days until the 1921 Census is indexed and searchable by name.
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The McCabe List
Catherine Frances McGlade, age 2
Or probably not quite 2 years old. My mother was born 10 October 1939, and I’m guessing this photo was taken in the summer of 1941. So she would have been about 21 or 22 months old here. This photograph…
Continue reading →John Alexander Moran, age 15
John Alexander Moran, 6 September 1934 — 14 March 2013 My father at age 15. I believe this photo was taken in the Gatineaus. My grandfather worked for the Gatineau Power Company; and for at least a couple of years,…
Continue reading →Research Tip of the Day (Oral History Interviews)
If you read genealogy ‘how-to’ books, ‘researching your family history’ guidebooks, advice for oral historians, and so on and so forth, you’ve no doubt already come across this very obvious, but very important, piece of advice. But the advice (or…
Continue reading →The 1921 Census of Canada
is finally available, though not yet indexed by name. It is now available free of charge at ancestry.ca (but without index by name, so you need to know where your ancestors lived in order to readily find them). According to John…
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