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Colleen Murray
- Oct 22
- 8 min
From Edmonton to the Aran Islands: genealogy of Lusitania victim
Researching an Edmonton woman who died in the Lusitania sinking
Colleen Murray
- Jul 31
- 1 min
The Irish in Western Canada
I’ve been working on my presentation “The Irish in Western Canada” for the upcoming Alberta Genealogical Society Conference. As is often...
Colleen Murray
- Jul 15, 2022
- 9 min
A Female Land Speculator in the Canadian West
A cousin that I recently connected with, thanks to DNA, lead me to some interesting information about my 2X great grand aunt, Victoria...
Colleen Murray
- Sep 28, 2021
- 4 min
Gems in Ontario's Heir & Devisee Commission records
How to use Ontario's Heir & Devisee Commission records to further your genealogy
Colleen Murray
- Nov 26, 2020
- 4 min
Albertans in the 1918 pandemic
I lost two of my great-grandparents during the Spanish Influenza pandemic- one from each side of my family. I have thought about them...
Colleen Murray
- Nov 11, 2018
- 3 min
The Intentionally Forgotten
Library and Archives Canada finished digitizing the service files of Canadian Soldiers in WW1 earlier this year. The completion of this...
Colleen Murray
- Sep 12, 2018
- 3 min
EPL's Heritage Collection is circulating!
Edmonton Public Library kept their best genealogy books in what was called the Heritage Room of the downtown Stanley Milner library....
Colleen Murray
- May 29, 2018
- 5 min
Granny Hogan and family lore
Moonshine Still, public domain, courtesy of Flikr Creative Commons, posted by UNC Library Commons. I'm sharing this story so that it is...
Colleen Murray
- Oct 25, 2017
- 3 min
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
- Jul 25, 2016
- 1 min
Summer Graveyard Visits
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...
Colleen Murray
- Mar 9, 2016
- 2 min
Edmonton Building Permits
Building permits are an overlooked record set that you should put on your to-do list. In Edmonton, these are available on microfilm at...
Colleen Murray
- Dec 2, 2015
- 3 min
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, 2015
- 5 min
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...
Colleen Murray
- Sep 9, 2015
- 1 min
Research at the Capital
I was at the Legislature Library here in Edmonton today doing some newspaper research using microfilm. The microfilms may be about the...
Colleen Murray
- May 16, 2015
- 1 min
Basketball: Update
In my previous post, I mused about my grandmother's team's basketball trophy and what may have happened to it. Upon contacting the...
Colleen Murray
- Apr 30, 2015
- 4 min
Basketball & genealogy
Commercial Yell:[1] Pickles, ketchup, chow, chow, chow, Chew ‘em up, eat ‘em up, bow, wow, wow; Hannibal, cannibal, sis, boom, bah,...
Colleen Murray
- Apr 18, 2015
- 2 min
Métis Nation & EPSB archives
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...
Colleen Murray
- Mar 19, 2015
- 2 min
Not so French after all
While researching my French-Canadian ancestor of the surname Phaneuf, I stumbled upon a few websites claiming that ALL Phaneufs come from...
Colleen Murray
- Mar 5, 2015
- 2 min
French-Albertan Pioneers
I have recently spent many hours studying the French Canadian Lamoureux family. Louis Lamoureux, my 9X Great Grandfather came from...
Colleen Murray
- Feb 7, 2015
- 2 min
Definitely not the Murphys: French-Canadian Genealogy
Photo Credit: Library and Archives Canada, e010952219 I have spent most of the last ten years focusing on Irish and Irish-Canadian...