Samuel has been popping his head into my life lately. Today Ancestry.com sent me a helpful Photo Hint — the pic of Samuel H. Painter I digitized and share with maybe two people onlin years and years ago. He’d come back to me. So, let’s give Samuel his day. Samuel is my grandpa’s grandpa. Or… Read More Samuel H. Painter
But I’m still here. I’m hoping my blog archives will reappear soon too. Most of my research in the recent years has been targeted at Grandma Deac, my “brick wall”. She, the person herself, may remain a mystery, but with the help of DNA and a genealogist DNA cousin, we know her family hail from… Read More It’s been awhile
It’s funny how, as a kid, you assume that everyone has grandmas like you, and that one day you’ll become a grandma just like your own. Like somehow, magically, as you age you will take up canning, and knitting…but not the smoking. Until one day you’re sitting and remembering those delicious canned pears and canned… Read More Grandmas
I see that Feystown is one of the more popular topics in this little blog–many folks seem to visit my blog as a result of a search for it. So I thought I’d just pose the pictures I have of it. I visited there in May of 2006 and took a fair number of photos. … Read More Feystown Cemetery, County Antrim, North of Ireland
Recently a long-distance cousin of mine sent me a photographed copy of my second great grand-uncle’s will from the 1890s. Okay, not the actual will, but the certified copy from the probate court. In any case, it was exciting in the way only us genealogists understand. 😉 But it got me thinking. I realized I… Read More Transcribing document images
I am lucky enough to have one of those surnames in my family tree that is unique enough that it is likely everyone with it is fairly closely related to me and “english” enough that there are few variations on its spelling and most variations have to do with the last few letters. McRandal. McRandall. … Read More Surname float
UPDATE (30 October 2013): The images are now Indexed on ancestry.ca. There are varying reports on the accuracy of the transcriptions. Continuing in the same vein as before, here are some rough notes I’ve made as I’ve gone through some of the scans at ancestry.ca: Subdistrict 1, Point Grey: covers 1400s King Edward, 1400s Laurier,… Read More Still more 1921 Census of Canada, Vancouver South (District 23)
Well, I was all ready to start making rough notes on my browsings through these images as I searched for family, and look what I found right already at the drop-down menu: Prince Albert District: Sub-District 01, 27 Townships 42, 43, 44 and 45 in ranges 30, 31 and 32 , west of the first… Read More 1921 Census of Canada, Northern Saskatchewan, Prince Albert and North Battleford
UPDATE (30 October 2013): The images are now Indexed on ancestry.ca. There are varying reports on the accuracy of the transcriptions. Well, not having much luck finding my brick wall ancestors in Vancouver, district 13 (see my previous post), I’m forging ahead with a new plan. Maybe they didn’t move from their old address until… Read More More 1921 Census of Canada, but Vancouver Centre, District 22
UPDATE (30 October 2013): The images are now Indexed on ancestry.ca. There are varying reports on the accuracy of the transcriptions. Images only *NOT INDEXED* on ancestry.ca as of today. Here are some rough notes I’ll add to as I view through the scanned images. If you know the street name you’re looking for, trying… Read More 1921 Canada Census-Vancouver, BC
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