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Colleen Murray
Jul 31, 20171 min read
Roots Sand Sculpture
I recently visited the Parksville, British Columbia Sand Sculpting Competition & Exhibition and saw this lovely sandcastle by Delayne...
Colleen Murray
Jul 16, 20171 min read
A sense of urgency
As most genealogists have already heard by now, FamilySearch is discontinuing its microfilm lending program. Although the news has been...
Colleen Murray
Mar 8, 20171 min read
House History links
Links for researching Historic homes: Canada’s Historic Places: http://www.historicplaces.ca/ Alberta Register of Historic Places:...
Colleen Murray
Mar 7, 20171 min read
Speaking engagement
Tomorrow night, I am excited to be speaking to the Postscripts Special Interest Group at the Alberta Genealogical Society’s Edmonton...
Colleen Murray
Jan 10, 20172 min read
Get organized!
In January, store shelves that were filled with decorations become filled with plastic storage containers, encouraging us to get...
Colleen Murray
Jan 3, 20171 min read
ProGen26 Graduate!
I received my certificate in the mail today, showing that I completed the ProGen Study Program. It is a professional development course...
Colleen Murray
Nov 18, 20161 min read
Heritage Books on Sale
In preparation for their big renovation, the Stanley A. Milner branch of the Edmonton Public Library has been weeding their books. As a...
Colleen Murray
Jul 25, 20161 min read
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
May 20, 20163 min read
My DNA Journey
Image Courtesy FamilyTreeDNA www.familytreedna.com Several years ago, my husband gave me a DNA test as a birthday gift. I did the cheek...
Colleen Murray
Mar 9, 20162 min read
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
Feb 1, 20161 min read
Edmonton Area Genealogy Events
Most of us come to genealogy late in life, maybe even after all the relatives who could have shared stories with us have already passed. ...
Colleen Murray
Jan 14, 20163 min read
Book Review
Researching Armagh Ancestors: A practical guide for the family and local historian. By Ian Maxwell. Published by Ulster Historical...
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...
Colleen Murray
Sep 8, 20151 min read
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
Jul 14, 20152 min read
Visiting Ireland this summer?
The National Library of Ireland offers an excellent service- they have genealogists available to answer your questions on family tree...
Colleen Murray
Jun 16, 20152 min read
Irish Research Trip
It's been a whirlwind of a month since I last posted. Not only did I begin the ProGen Study Group (a study group set up to study the...
Colleen Murray
May 15, 20151 min read
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 read
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 21, 20152 min read
Final day of #AGS2015
I'm a few days late in blogging about our final day at #AGS2015- I guess I was still in recovery mode! Our plenary session was a lecture...