Colleen Murray

I first tested my father’s Y-DNA back in 2014- and it wasn’t until a few weeks ago, five years later, that he finally received a match who shares his surname. This issue is more common than you might think- and it isn’t necessarily a warning sign of illegitimacy in the...

I treated myself to some new editions of books that I've previously owned & read. Especially excited that my brand new edition of John Grenham's Tracing your Irish Ancestors finally arrived today after weeks of waiting!

My maternal Belgian line was the most neglected side of my family tree. My mother had inherited two extensive compiled genealogies that made research on this line seem less necessary, and it wasn’t until last year in preparation for a visit to Brussels that I really tu...

Library and Archives Canada finished digitizing the service files of Canadian Soldiers in WW1 earlier this year. The completion of this project, no doubt, was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1, which we are celebrating today, this Remembran...

Edmonton Public Library kept their best genealogy books in what was called the Heritage Room of the downtown Stanley Milner library. These books did not circulate, and were not to be removed from the room. It was frustrating to visit the Milner library, pay for parking...

Photo we took of Adare Manor during a visit a few years ago. 

Tonight, I am giving a talk at the Alberta Genealogical Society, at the meeting of the Irish Special Interest Group. My topic is the Irish Palatines. The Irish Palatines were a group of refugees from the Pala...

 Moonshine Still, public domain, courtesy of Flikr Creative Commons, posted by UNC Library Commons.

I'm sharing this story so that it is preserved for relatives to see, but it may also be an interesting example to others, showing how old family stories can often hold a...

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I will admit that I had no knowledge of The Catholic Register newspaper prior to learning that they were offering free access to their publication to mark their 125th birthday. As it turns out, this is an excellent resource for Catholic-Canadian Genealogy.

I was uncerta...

I just listened to a fascinating discussion on CBC Radio: The Current on personal genome sequencing. Although we have become used to sending our DNA samples south of the border, it was good to hear that there is DNA research happening in Canada as well. The organizers...