Colleen Murray

I recently received notification that my blog has been chosen as one of the Top 100 Genealogy Blogs this year by Feedspot. It’s always...

Irish genealogy presentation: Strategies for Successful Irish Research

I’ve been working on my presentation “The Irish in Western Canada” for the upcoming Alberta Genealogical Society Conference. As is often...

As part of their Métis Project, La Société généalogique du Nord-Ouest, Edmonton is hosting a lecture entitled: Finding Indigenous...

I’m busily preparing to teach the Introduction to Genealogy course offered through ELLA (Edmonton Lifelong Learners Association). This...

How to use Ontario's Heir & Devisee Commission records to further your genealogy

I lost two of my great-grandparents during the Spanish Influenza pandemic- one from each side of my family. I have thought about them...

My maternal Belgian line was the most neglected side of my family tree. My mother had inherited two extensive compiled genealogies that...

Library and Archives Canada finished digitizing the service files of Canadian Soldiers in WW1 earlier this year. The completion of this...

Edmonton Public Library kept their best genealogy books in what was called the Heritage Room of the downtown Stanley Milner library....

Recently, a friend introduced me to the Blue Book, a society Who’s Who guide. Several editions from the early 1900’s for the Toronto area...

If you live in a winter city like I do, you'll find that cemeteries are barely accessible for much of the year. So July is a great time...

Building permits are an overlooked record set that you should put on your to-do list. In Edmonton, these are available on microfilm at...

My 2X great grandfather, David Conroy, died in Edmonton in 1939. He was reported to have been one of Edmonton’s oldest citizens, having...

Photo courtesy of Avacados via Flickr Creative Commons https://flic.kr/p/3ZX5aE Ontario Church records A few years ago, when I was...

I was at the Legislature Library here in Edmonton today doing some newspaper research using microfilm. The microfilms may be about the...

In my previous post, I mused about my grandmother's team's basketball trophy and what may have happened to it. Upon contacting the...

Commercial Yell:[1] Pickles, ketchup, chow, chow, chow, Chew ‘em up, eat ‘em up, bow, wow, wow; Hannibal, cannibal, sis, boom, bah,...

As part of the 2015 AGS Conference happening this weekend, I was able to attend pre-conference tours at both the Métis Nation of Alberta...

While researching my French-Canadian ancestor of the surname Phaneuf, I stumbled upon a few websites claiming that ALL Phaneufs come from...