Upper Canada Genealogy

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11/28/2022

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08/20/2021

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04/26/2021

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12/23/2020

Another card from my great grandmother's collection, ca 1910

12/23/2020

From my great grandmother's collection, ca 1910

12/15/2020

I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of a court file I've ordered. This is the first time I've found someone appealing to a court to have his wife declared deceased. I found the notice in both Vancouver, BC newspapers in 1934. It said the man testified that his wife disappeared in 1924 after they had an argument and he tried to find her several times without success. I'm really curious to see what the court required by way of evidence. To the best of my knowledge neither the man nor his wife had any relatives in the province, and the husband lived in Prince George, a long way from Vancouver (or maybe the supreme court met in Victoria, as it is the capital of the province?). Did the court just take his affidavit? Did they require statements from relatives in Ontario? I'll let you know what I find out! I'd be curious to hear if anyone else has come across this and what happened in your case.

10/10/2020

What a lovely, generous idea! Peggy Clemens Lauritzen is scanning obits and funeral cards and and linking them to the relevant people on FamilySearch's family tree. Do you have a box of similar items?

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10/07/2020

Mary Ann Shadd Cary left her mark as the first Black woman publisher in North America when she began editing the Provincial Freeman in 1853. Read the newspaper online on OurDigitalWorld's website: http://news.ourontario.ca/abolition/97849/data.

Front page of the Provincial Freeman newspaper, November 11, 1854 (microfilm reel N 040)

09/03/2020

OPINIONS WANTED - If I were to write a book or teach a course about records relating to people living in institutional group settings, including Jails, Prisons, Insane Asylums, Workhouses, Reformatories, Orphanages, Tuberculosis hospitals, Old age homes and homes of the deaf, blind and disabled (in 19th Century and early 20th Century Ontario), what should I call it? What do you think of the following options? A: "Institutionalized - Your ancestors away from home" B: "19th Century Ontario Institutions - A genealogist's introduction" C: "Put in a Home - How to find records of institutions" Other ideas?

08/23/2020

This is too cool! Imagine having this in your family :) Usually we blame rats for destroying precious documents, but in this case, they helped preserve them (sort of)!

An archaeologist working alone through lockdown in the attic rooms of Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk has uncovered one of the largest underfloor archaeology hauls of its type in a National Trust house.