Wednesday, 23 April 2025

On serendipity and lost records

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Alexander Fraser, Provincial Archivist for Ontario, published the following prefatory to the 1917 edition of the Report of the Ontario Burea...
Sunday, 24 March 2024

Find potential siblings, check for DNA cousin matches

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Historically, people rarely emigrated alone. Life was too precarious and difficult to handle without the support of a family network and thi...
Saturday, 9 March 2024

Beware doppelganger places

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There is a tranche of Ontario birth records on Ancestry with birth location indexed as "Prince Edward Island." PEI is a province. ...
Saturday, 17 February 2024

10 most deadly Great Lakes maritime disasters: Identifying the lost...

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... and collecting stories of survival (updated) Recently, I read of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum's success in finding lost wrecks. ...
Tuesday, 9 January 2024

Never ignore rare names...

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... and always investigate namesakes FindAGrave image (inset) Grave of Joanna Nald Dickson I made a mistake recently. While working on resea...
Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Golden Horseshoe Mysteries: Holiday Omnibus

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 Buy both mysteries in one holiday-themed volume and save about 30% (depending on market place). Canada    USA UK Australia
Wednesday, 23 August 2023

New Release: Book 2 in the Golden Horseshoe Mysteries

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  Mornings That Will Never Come , the follow-up to The Girl in the Library is now available on Amazon (. ca , . com , . uk , . au , . fr a...