Census Records – Ottawa Valley Irish

“Now comes Thos. L. Ryan…”

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….

Posted on 7 April 2015by M.C. Moran

One of the challenges of Irish genealogy is that of identifying and locating townlands, the names and spellings of which…

Posted on 31 March 2015by M.C. Moran

If you’re lucky enough to find a family in the Irish census fragments, you will no doubt feel enormously grateful…

Posted on 10 February 2015by M.C. Moran

… and those 10 children the offspring of 3 separate (but related!) marital pairs. I’ve written about this before (see,…

Posted on 9 February 2015by M.C. Moran

The 1842 Census of Canada East (Quebec) is available at ancestry.ca (subscription-only), but also at FamilySearch (free of charge). At FamilySearch,…

Posted on 2 February 2015by M.C. Moran

In my previous entry, I noted that you are generally not going to find married women’s maiden names in the…

Posted on 29 January 2015by M.C. Moran

For the most part, you are not going to find married women’s maiden names in the Canadian census returns (nor…

Posted on 3 May 2014by M.C. Moran

First, the bad news (not that it’s news: if you’ve been pursuing Irish genealogy at a level beyond that of…