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Colleen Murray
Oct 22, 20238 min
From Edmonton to the Aran Islands: genealogy of Lusitania victim
Researching an Edmonton woman who died in the Lusitania sinking
Colleen Murray
Jul 30, 20231 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, 20229 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, 20214 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 25, 20204 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, 20183 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, 20183 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, 20185 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, 20173 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, 20161 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, 20162 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 1, 20153 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, 20155 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 8, 20151 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 15, 20151 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 29, 20154 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 17, 20152 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, 20152 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, 20152 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 6, 20152 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...