One of the more interesting aspects of genealogical research is to paint a picture of the person one is researching. Casualties among the De Meuron Regiment during the War of 1812 have been very difficult to determine because the notations of death were buried in Regimental registers. Recent records released…
Irish genealogy is some thing new to me. In the past I have never ventured near Irish records except in a very superficial manner. The reason was partly due to the very few Irish ancestors in my own family as well as the fact that even when researching the Montreal…
Its been a while since I blogged and a lot of the time since my last article was taken up doing research. One of the interesting things that has come out of the research I have been doing in Germany, is a possible link between two soldiers who enlisted in…
The earliest recorded Montreal pipe maker is a Scotsman named William Henderson who appears to have established a pipe concern in the city in 1846. Recent research genealogical in Scotland has shown that this Montreal pipe maker was active in Glasgow prior to his emigration to Canada. The date of the establishment of Henderson’s Montreal…