As if Ireland hasn’t already lost enough invaluable and irreplaceable genealogical records, John Grenham sounds the alarm over the state of the original Roman Catholic parish registers — which are “still sitting in the sacristies and presbyteries around the country…
Continue reading →Floor plans and photographs of mid-century modern houses in Ottawa.
Continue reading →The best thing I’ve read about the Ottawa Valley in a long time is Michael E. Vance’s Imperial Immigrants: Scottish Settlers in the Upper Ottawa Valley, 1815-1840. Highly recommend.
Continue reading →Some excellent advice by professional genealogist John Grenham, whose Irish Roots column is a must-read.
Continue reading →Now online at PRONI (Public Record Office of Northern Ireland), a searchable placename index to the Valuation Revision Books, covering the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone between the years 1864 to 1933.
Continue reading →So the reason I’m blue in the face is not apnoea or an impending heart attack, it’s from telling people over and over and over that it makes no difference whether your Quin family have been insanely fussy about spelling…
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