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4th May 2014
As regular readers will know, my maternal grandfather documented his family line long before the internet. Along with documents, photographs, certificates and other ephemera passed down […]
4th May 2014
And here I am, back in residence at Niagara-on-the-Lake…. Day 1 (for me) of the OGS Conference 2014 is over. I will wax lyrical after the […]
3rd May 2014
Genealogy research that does not require a passport – that’s what ‘Genealogy Without Borders’ means for the Ontario Genealogical Society Conference 2014 at Brock University. But […]
2nd May 2014
Nearly five hundred years ago, on this day in 1536, Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, was arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and […]
1st May 2014
And what an era it was….! Thank you for the messages of support, both on good days and bad. They have spurred me on and brightened […]
30th April 2014
The challenge would not be completed with Z for Zulu – the historical war film of 1964, depicting the Battle of Rorke’s Drift between the Zulus […]
29th April 2014
You are most probably all aware of the connection of this term with the USA but the word does have different connotations….. outside the United States, […]
28th April 2014
X-ray (or X-radiation) is a form of electromagnetic radiation. This takes me back to my student days studying chemical physics…. did you know that most x-rays have […]
27th April 2014
For many years, Leonard Fielder was at the top of one branch of my tree – Leonard married Maria Keen (sometimes Kean, otherwise Keane!) in 1836 […]