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Tips For Using Facebook
This post is not strictly about genealogy, but will definitely be helpful for those following genealogy groups on Facebook. My personal favourites are Genetic Genealogy Tips and Tricks and The Genealogy Squad, but I also follow a number of groups for the geographical and cultural areas of my genealogical research. There are a lot of…
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Canadian Naturalization Records
Did you know that up until January 1, 1947, everyone who was born in Canada was considered a British subject? The history of naturalization in Canada begins in 1868, one year after Canada becomes a country. Despite no longer being a colony, one did not naturalize to become a citizen of Canada but to become…
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Making Photo Requests of Cemetery Monuments
It’s that time of year! Time for genealogists to uncramp themselves from their hunched over postions at their computers and go enjoy the beautiful weather. Doesn’t mean you have to stop your genealogy work, though. You can enjoy the great outdoors by going for a walk in a cemetery! Maybe it’s just me, since I…
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Cite Your Sources
I just joined a new Facebook group called The Genealogy Squad whose focus is non-DNA related genealogy questions (as opposed to Genetic Genealogy Tips and Techniques, which is only DNA related). Someone posted something which spurred an interesting question about citations, plagiarism, copyright and terms of service. These are really important questions to ask even…
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Did Your Ancestors Survive The Halifax Explosion?
On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax harbour. Unfortunately, one of those ships was carrying TNT and exploded. The explosion was the worst man-made disaster in the history of the world, only eclipsed by the dropping of atomic bombs decades later. Almost 2000 people died, and around 9000 were injured. If you’re researching…
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1940 National Registration File
Are you researching someone who lived in Canada and was 16 years or older in 1940? If so, you need to know about the 1940 Registration File. This record provides all kinds of information about a person in 1940. You can learn about their job, jobs they are qualified to do, dependents and health. Click…
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Township 1, Range 4W
If you’re Western Canadian, you will definitely want to check out the Library and Archives Canada database Land Grants of Western Canada, 1870-1930. Using this database and other information I have, I was able to use this map to figure out where the land my ancestors owned actually is. The square in the picture is…
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Before there was social media there was just media
As part of my Ancestry membership I have a basic membership to the website Newspapers.com. I upgraded to the premium membership when I realized that I did not have access to many of the newspapers. Recently I broke down and got a membership to Newspaperarchive.com. While Newspapers.com has newspaper archives for the newspaper where I…
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Thrulines
Ancestry has unveiled a new DNA tool and I have thoughts. DNA circles has been replaced with something called Thrulines. Thrulines attempts, based on all the trees in its database, to figure out where your DNA matches fit into your family tree. In order to use Thrulines, a few elements must be in place. Obviously,…
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Clustering at Genetic Affairs
Clustering is all the rage! It all began with the Leeds method, a way to manually cluster your matches using the shared matches functions. It involves making a spreadsheet and colour coding your DNA matches until you have groups of matches. If you’re lucky, you end up with 4 distinct groupings, one for each grandparent.…
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