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Finding Obituaries Online

May 5, 2023 Since obits are such a great source of information about ancestors, genealogists are eager to find them. Most obits were originally published in local newspapers. Fortunately, many online of these newspapers are now digitized and available online. Some are available behind a paywall. Others can be found on free sites. When you …

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Using Obits

April 28, 2023 I don’t know a single genealogist who doesn’t use obituaries. There are good reasons for this. We all know that an obit is a good way to find out where and when an ancestor died, but obits provide many other clues to an ancestor’s life.   Obituaries are common for people who …

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Family Stories

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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