Hi my name is Kate, and I am trying to find what happened to my G Grandfather Roland Foord. He sailed from Liverpool on the Teutonic to Nova Scotia in March 1913. He was supposed to send for his wife and children, but never did and was presumed dead after so many years, his wife remarried and this is all i know. Would be grateful for any help from Kate

My grandfather George A. Ford and his brother Walter were sent to Canada from Dr. Barnardo's home in the late 1800's when they were 10 and 8 respectively. I know who my family is in England because my grandfather went looking for them in 1951 and we have met them on a couple of trips to the UK. My curiosity starts when he arrived in Canada as a child. It's like he disappeared until he married my grandmother and ended up in British Columbia where my dad was born. He was separated from his brother… Continue

Ever noticed that old newspaper turns yellow and gets brittle? Acid is the culprit. Acid is used in process of manufacturing newsprint and many papers. And over time, the acid combined with any moisture, begins to destroy paper.

Many of the documents that genealogists find, use and probably want to save for historical purposes are already in various states of deterioration. And, if the document has begun deteriorating, further deterioration is inevitable, unless the document is somehow "deacidi… Continue

I have been searching for my Irish ancestors, over the past few years. There are links to the
Family that I have found, just searching the internet, using ancestry and genealogy sites.
Most are American and neglect the Canadian connections. Your type in a name like Anne Wallace and you get 100 Anne Wallaces. You type in Robert Day and you get 100 different
Robert Days. The travel of these emmigrants to Canada during the 1850's - 1900. have many different trails, as they came to Halifax, Quebec C… Continue

If anyone who has ancesters in Lower Canada that lived in a seigneurie this is a resource, that can proove to be helpful. Below is a brief description of the.....

Cadastres abreges des Seigneuries du
............., Quebec, 1863
District de .............. (Vol ...) No .....,

One of the positives things that came out of the Rebellions of Upper and Lower Canada was the acknowledgment that many new immigrants and French Canadians already living in Quebec, wished to own their own property and not p… Continue