Translation – Ottawa Valley Irish

Translating French Records: Catholic Marriage Records

Posted on 6 May 2015by M.C. Moran

Of the three types of Roman Catholic records most commonly used for genealogical purposes (baptismal, marriage, and burial), marriage records…

Posted on 1 July 2013by M.C. Moran

This was posted on Facebook, by the Institut généalogique Drouin (but the screencap below is from ancestry.ca: Quebec, Vital and…

Posted on 28 April 2013by M.C. Moran

Returning to the French-Irish theme (see Strange Surname Spellings: Hohanlan for O’Hanlon) with respect to surname spellings, here are three…

Posted on 11 January 2013by M.C. Moran

As I’ve mentioned before (e.g., in Spelling Doesn’t Count! [in Genealogy]), it’s extremely unlikely that an ancestor had a strong attachment…

Posted on 18 November 2012by M.C. Moran

Continued from The Queen vs Kelly: Part IV (see also Part III, Part II, and Part I). What Happened to John…

Posted on 9 April 2012by M.C. Moran

Actually, Catholic records for Pontiac County are also online at BAnQ, free of charge, and for the same time period…

Posted on 4 November 2011by M.C. Moran

Canadian census records might be recorded in English, in French, or in a combination of both languages. Here’s an example…

Posted on 20 October 2011by M.C. Moran

As with baptismal and marriage records, RC burial records adhered to the same formula, whether written in English or French….