Carnivals Galore!

It’s that time of year! The nights are cooling off, and the days are mild and pleasant. Leaves are beginning to turn, and mums are blooming in gardens. It’s the perfect time to take a break from raking leaves and pine cones or cleaning gutters and enjoy a favorite virtual magazine or [...]

Norm’s Got Canadians

My husband has a couple of ancestral lines on his mother’s side that came through Canada. Just as in Part One and Part Two of my Miriam’s Got Canadians posts that I’ve been writing for the first edition of the Canadian Genealogy Carnival, I thought I would list his ancestors by their ahnentafel number [...]

Miriam’s Got Canadians – Part II

In Part One, I listed the Canadian ancestors of my Dad’s father’s family. Part Two will list his mother’s Canadian ancestry. I have prefaced each paragraph with the ahnentafel number of my ancestor, and have included a map for easy reference. While I understand that the information here is probably not going [...]

Miriam’s Got Canadians – Part I

I was so excited to hear that Kathryn Lake Hogan of Looking4Ancestors has begun a Canadian Genealogy Carnival for those of us with Canadian roots! As I started to look through my RootsMagic program to find all my Canadian ancestors for a post for the 1st Edition of this carnival, I realized that I [...]

Got Canadians?

carnival poster created by the footnoteMaven
Do you have Canadian ancestry? Then there’s a brand new genealogy carnival, just for you! Kathryn of Looking4Ancestors recently announced the 1st Edition of the Canadian Genealogy Carnival whose topic is to introduce your Canadian ancestors:
Who were they? How did they get here? Where did they live? Did [...]