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May 5, 2009

I REMEMBER Uses The Fourth-Most Trafficked Website in the United States To Bring Memories Together Like Never Before

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May 5, 2009 – Lindon, Utah – Footnote.com today announced the launch of I Remember, a Facebook application aimed at helping connect Facebook...
May 4, 2009

Making a Genealogy Time Capsule Part 3

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Once you have your Genealogy Time Capsule made, you're ready to take the final step. You can hide it inside a building or outside. You c...
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May 3, 2009

Making a Genealogy Time Capsule Part 2

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We have talked previously about what items to put into a Genealogy Time Capsule. Now it's time to think about what kind of container we ...
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May 2, 2009

Making a Genealogy Time Capsule

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When my husband and I were building our home in the country 12 years ago, we filled a 1-Litre plastic pop bottle with odds and ends of items...
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May 1, 2009

Newspaper Archive - Not to be Missed!

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I have just discovered Newspaper Archive. And I love it! Why did it take me so long to find this site? I played around in it almost all day ...
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April 30, 2009

Black Sheep Canadian Ancestors Submissions

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The topic for the last Canadian Genealogy Carnival was Black Sheep Canadian Ancestors The prompt was "Do you have a blacksheep ancestor...
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April 29, 2009

Skeletons in The Closet

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Many of us have Genealogical Skeletons in our Closets. Not our own, but an ancestor's closet. Some we know about or have heard whispers ...
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April 28, 2009

Finding a Removal Order for an English Ancestor

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In an earlier post I talked about How to Use the National Archives United Kingdom Website to Obtain Ancestor Documents . One of the items I ...
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April 26, 2009

My Missing Grandmother Found!

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Recently I posted about my grandmother's missing ashes . Grandma died in Owen Sound in 1985 and was supposed to be interred with my gran...
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April 25, 2009

Ancestry's new search and hot keys option

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Yesterday while using Ancestry.com website, I saw a notice at the top of the main Search Page "Try out the New Ancestry Search"....
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April 24, 2009

Border Crossings From U.S. to Canada, 1908-1935 online

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Border Crossings From U.S. to Canada, 1908-1935 are now online at Ancestry.com This database contains records of immigrants crossing into ...
April 21, 2009

My Missing Grandmother

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My Grandmother died in January 1985. She was cremated and then interred in Guelph Ontario (or so I thought until yesterday). I had actually ...
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April 19, 2009

Questions on Ask Olive Tree

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Next week I've got these questions answered so far on on Ask Olive Tree * reese asked about an ancestor's arrival in virginia in 165...
April 16, 2009

COMPLETE Canadian Census 1851-1916 Coming Online in June!

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On Wednesday the 10th of June, 2009, Ancestry.ca in partnership with the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is holding a media event in Toron...
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April 14, 2009

How to Use the National Archives UK Website to Obtain Ancestor Documents

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Using the National Archives UK website to find information on an ancestor is fairly straightforward. However, as I learned recently, the res...
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April 10, 2009

Easter Bunny's Family Tree Found!

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Breaking news - yesterday a little girl named Alice was playing in the garden of an old house in England when she fell down a large rabbit h...
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April 8, 2009

Canada 150 Project

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Join Canada’s largest history project ever... Imagine Parliament Hill, July 1, 2017 – our country’s 150th birthday. Imagine helping 150,000 ...
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April 7, 2009

Ancestor Handmarks Revisited

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I talked about Handmarks - stylized marks which represented an individual's signature - in an earlier blog post Hand Marks - Elaborate S...
April 6, 2009

25 Most Popular Genealogy Blogs

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Olive Tree Genealogy Blog is honoured to be Number 12 in the list of the 25 Most Popular Genealogy Blogs as of April 3, 2009, determined by ...
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April 5, 2009

Petworth Project on Facebook

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The Petworth Project has produced books, an archive, and a website dealing with English emigrants who came to Canada with the help of the Pe...