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Colleen Murray
Mar 13, 20227 min read
My Irish Y-DNA project: breaking through brick walls
Irish research can be difficult, due to record loss or how the records were kept in the first place. When records fail us, sometimes DNA...

Colleen Murray
Sep 28, 20214 min read
Gems in Ontario's Heir & Devisee Commission records
How to use Ontario's Heir & Devisee Commission records to further your genealogy

Colleen Murray
Oct 25, 20173 min read
Society Blue Books
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...

Colleen Murray
Dec 1, 20153 min read
Written in Stone
My 2X great grandfather, David Conroy, died in Edmonton in 1939. He was reported to have been one of Edmonton’s oldest citizens, having...


Colleen Murray
Oct 14, 20155 min read
New work on Old problems
Photo courtesy of Avacados via Flickr Creative Commons https://flic.kr/p/3ZX5aE Ontario Church records A few years ago, when I was...