When my paternal grandparents married in 1932, each was marrying into a familiar family. As I’ve mentioned before, my Moran ancestors and my Lahey ancestors have been linked by intermarriage since the middle of the 19th century. Not that my paternal…
Continue reading →Some excellent advice by professional genealogist John Grenham, whose Irish Roots column is a must-read.
Continue reading →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 →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 →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…
Continue reading →Via John Reid’s Anglo-Celtic Connections, Findmypast is offering free access to its Irish birth, marriage, and death records for four days, from 27-30 June. This gesture of generosity from the UK-based Findmypast as an apparent commemoration of the destruction by…
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