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Locality Research: Ontario
Notes on Ontario Records and Searching Them: For general enquiries, it is a difficult task to institute an in-depth search without knowing a place-name for your ancestor when researching the Canadian province of Ontario. Most records are arranged by...
Locality Research: Prince Edward Island
NOTES ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND RECORDS AND SEARCHING THEM: For general enquiries, it is a difficult task to institute an in-depth search without knowing a place-name for your ancestor when researching the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. Most...
Locality Research: Québec
NOTES ON QUÉBEC RECORDS AND SEARCHING THEM: For general enquiries, it is a difficult task to institute an in-depth search without knowing a place-name for your ancestor when researching the Canadian province of Québec. Most records are arranged by...
Locality Research: Saskatchewan
NOTES ON SASKATCHEWAN RECORDS AND SEARCHING THEM: For general enquiries, it is a difficult task to institute an in-depth search without knowing a place-name for your ancestor when researching the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba....
Locality Research: Scotland
Notes on Scotland Records and Searching Them: For general enquiries, it is a difficult task to institute an in-depth search without knowing a place-name for your ancestor when researching Scotland. Most records are arranged by town, parish, county or Registrar...
Migration Routes of the Fur-Traders & Voyageurs
By Brian W. Hutchison No group is more responsible for foraging trails and expanding the West than the early immigrants that became fur-traders and voyageurs. Many were of French (France & Quebec) ancestry but not all as the fur...
Report on the Descendancy of James C. Kavanagh (c. 1850-1922) – Living Heirs
By Brian W. Hutchison OBJECTIVES: Search for the descendants and living heirs of the aforementioned James C. Kavanagh. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: James Charles Kavanagh was indeed a Vancouver resident in 1911 and is the only James Kavanagh in the...
Standards for Transcribing Monumental Inscriptions – Revisited
By Brian W. Hutchison How time has flown, and how much “water has gone under the bridge” since last introducing this subject discussion more than ten years ago in June of 1991 as a retort to a series of...
Surname Origins & History
By Brian W. Hutchison “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet (1595), by William Shakespeare. What’s In a Name? – This is included in one...