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...
Sunday, 26 March 2023

Look in the right place

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 Any localized place information you have is probably the best clue you will ever get. Someone contacted me recently for help. An ancestor o...