April 21, 2023 I suppose every family has its storyteller. In mine it was my maternal grandmother Fannie Terry Dawson. Whenever we visited her, she told us stories about our ancestors. The stories included a tale about her ancestor who’d been in the first government of Canada. Others ranged from a grandfather who’d crossed …
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Visit a State Archive this Year
April 14, 2023 Over the past few years, the internet has been a lifeline for genealogical research. Without it, these pandemic years would have stopped our research in its tracks. Now that the pandemic is pretty much under control, we need to remember that only about ten per cent of all genealogical records are …
Paper Files
April 7, 2023 Like most genealogists of a “certain” age, I still have lots of paper files. You’re probably thinking that I ought to be scanning the files and then tossing the paper copies. I know that would be ideal, but I have four filing cabinets tightly packed with files, and I just can’t face …