Colleen Murray

I lost two of my great-grandparents during the Spanish Influenza pandemic- one from each side of my family. I have thought about them...

Edmonton Public Library kept their best genealogy books in what was called the Heritage Room of the downtown Stanley Milner library....

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...

Building permits are an overlooked record set that you should put on your to-do list. In Edmonton, these are available on microfilm at...

My 2X great grandfather, David Conroy, died in Edmonton in 1939. He was reported to have been one of Edmonton’s oldest citizens, having...

I was at the Legislature Library here in Edmonton today doing some newspaper research using microfilm. The microfilms may be about the...

In my previous post, I mused about my grandmother's team's basketball trophy and what may have happened to it. Upon contacting the...

Commercial Yell:[1] Pickles, ketchup, chow, chow, chow, Chew ‘em up, eat ‘em up, bow, wow, wow; Hannibal, cannibal, sis, boom, bah,...

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...

I have recently spent many hours studying the French Canadian Lamoureux family. Louis Lamoureux, my 9X Great Grandfather came from...

Today I was pleased to visit Edmonton’s King’s University for the first time. They were offering a free lecture by presenter Shannon...