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Volume 41 No. 4 Publication of the Edmonton Branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society November 2019
Inscription of the complete poem in a bronze book at the John McCrae memorial at his birthplace in Guelph, Ontario
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, M.D., (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". John McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war.
LEST WE FORGET NE L'OUBLIONS PAS
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From the Guest Editor and President
Hello, Tansi, Bonjour
This month we remember those Canadians who fought in conflicts around the world over the past centuries.
Many gave the supreme sacrifice so we could live in freedom and peace.
I believe most genealogists will find several ancestors who were part of a military unit. As you uncover your ‘roots’ you probably discovered more than one generation who served in the military both male and female. This month we honour them all.
November also reminds us the year is coming to a close.
This past year has been busy one with interesting presenters at the general monthly meetings, the Special Interest Group sessions, Open Doors in July and the addition of opening the Library the first Saturday of each month. We are grateful for all the dedicated members who continue volunteer without them we could not offer all the sessions.
February 27, 2020 is the date of the Annual Meeting and Elections. Positions need to be filled are: Vice-President and Recording Secretary. As well, we are still recruiting an editorial team to produce Clandigger; Tracing Your Family Tree chair; Program Chair and Archivist. If you are interested email [email protected]
We have two file cabinets one 4 drawer and the other 2 drawer that we are offering to members TAKE AND DONATE. If you are interested, Linda in the office will show you which ones. This is a first-come-first-served. We ask that you remove the cabinet by December 1st.
IN THIS ISSUE
Page
In Flanders Fields 1
From the President 2
Edmonton Branch Info 3
Neil McEwan Military Service 4-6
May 1940 - August 1945
War Memorials 7
Daddy, Why is Grandpa Crying 8-11
War Memorials–websites 11
Tracing Your Family Tree 12
Can You Help 13
Branch News 13
From the Stacks 14-17
December Clandigger 17
November Meeting 18
ISSN 02226-2436
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Edmonton Branch website: http://edmontongenealogy.ca/
Edmonton Branch email.: [email protected]
Clandigger email: [email protected]
Edmonton Branch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
Alberta Genealogical Society Website: http://www.abgenealogy.ca/
Edmonton Branch Board of Directors
President: Sheila D. Genaille
Vice President: Nestor Martinez
Past President: Donna Shanks
Treasurer: Ken Fearnley
Secretary: Claudine Nelson
Library: Committee
Membership Director: Louise Perkins
Archivist/Historian: vacant
Clandigger: vacant
Genealogical Courses: Sheila Genaille
Genealogical Research: Norma Wolowyk
Program Chair: vacant
Publicity: Sharon Dyer
Corresponding Secretary: Bev Wardell
Electronic Resources: John Hazelwood
Webmaster: Donna Parker
#162, 14315 – 118 Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T5L 4S6
Phone: (780) 424-4429 Fax: (780) 423-8980
E-mail: [email protected]
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NEIL McEWAN MILITARY SERVICE MAY 1940 – AUGUST 1945
By Sara McEwan
Neil often entertained his daughters and friends with army ditties; heading out the door and patting himself while rhyming ...spectacles, testicles, watch & wallet. And singing marching songs, ...Aunty Mary had a canary, up the leg of her drawers....
In the late 1960s, I recall Dad happy in military conversation at the kitchen table of our Vancouver apartment with my boyfriend of the time who was training to be a soldier. Behind them my mother, silently fuming, banged the pots and pans. The scene is a memorable childhood recollection of my parents, both who rarely shared actual events of World War II as citizens of a country that was at war with Germany and Russia from 1939 to 1945. Betty recovered from the war holding her experiences close to her chest; bombings in Birmingham, separation and widowhood from her first marriage and raising a baby alone.
Fifty years later in 2013, I waited with the patient anticipation of a genealogist for my Dad's war services record. Having paid my 30 pounds to the British Army War Records Office, I waited curious about what little I knew of Dad's time as a British soldier. His handwritten lifetime address list includes exotic locations from his time in the military. What had he been doing in Algiers, North Africa in 1943? How did he end up in Arnhem, Netherlands? How did he become a glider pilot?
Described in enlistment records as a fit 25 year old Scottish agricultural student from his parental home on Marchmont Road in Ayr, Neil joined up in May 1940. He was in trim shape, 5'7", 142 lbs. So, the British Army assigned him initially, with a fitness designation of class "A", to the 25th Medium & Heavy Training Regiment (Royal Air Force).
As Neil, now Army number 983111, was in his early training in the regiment in England, another significant event was taking place in nearby, Northampton. Betty Maravan-Williams gave birth to daughter Felicity Anne Elizabeth on December 27, 1940. Fate and luck would bring them all together before the war's end.
Internet accounts suggest that there was a tussle between the Army & the Airforce for the men assigned to the gliding role. Eventually the army assumed responsibility for thorough training in all aspects of war, while the air force trained the airmen. Neil appears to have spent the first 3 years of service at various English military bases. At that time he qualified as a C/M Radio Mech. III. and served in Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Army Air Corps.
Still in class A fitness shape, in July 1942 he was posted to the 1st Glider Pilot Regiment training course #8. Neil trained in and flew a variety of aircraft; DH 82A, Magister, Hotspur II & Horsa gliders. Night flights, aerobatics, local and instrument flights, and formation flying are meticulously recorded entries in his own hand in his flight record book.
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In 1943 he was shipped out to North Africa and spent four months there in Prison Camp, Olive Grove, Kairouan and Stadium, Algiers. A single handwritten scrap of memory of his return by boat to England was in his final effects.
Coming back from North Africa in (December) '43 we were rammed by an escort ship and had to put back to Gibralter for repairs. Can't remember what ship I was on but I think the...might have been the Bedford rings a bell. Tho" this could be the ramblings of a senior.
Forty years earlier Neil's father Hugh had sailed to South Africa and taught there. I like to speculate that Neil's inclination to see the world through the military might have been inspired to some degree by his father's journey.
Neil rose steadily through the ranks of non-commissioned soldiers; private to corporal to sergeant in early 1943. Neil was promoted to Staff Sergeant as a senior pilot in his glider squadron in 1944.
Neil's final wartime engagement was the Battle of Arnhem, Operation Market Garden, a disastrous failed attempt by the British Liberation Army to free Holland from German occupation. He airlifted out on September 18, 1944 and landed near Arnhem, Holland. Wounded (some say by crash landing, some say gunshot), he was taken in by a Dutch family, and evaded capture for 11 days before being one of the last soldiers evacuated to England. During this time he is credited with heroically saving the life of his co-pilot and regimental friend, Walter Langham. The war in Europe ended on May 8, 1945.
From a fit class A start in the military, Neil, almost 30 years old, was discharged in August 1945, declared unfit for any form of future military service. No doubt, this was due to the physical and psychological toll of his battle experience. Family lore describes Neil as mentally in shaky condition as he convalesced at Sandyford Military Auxillary Red Cross Hospital in Birmingham, England an annex to Peripheral Nerve Injuries Unit of Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
In addition to the baldly described nature of his military discharge, there's an important notation of the quality of Neil's time defending his country. Neil's military character in discharge was rated Exemplary. He had been diagnosed with brachialplexus lesion of the spine and carried permanent wartime wounds. Despite surgeries and treatments, he suffered lifelong chronic pain.
However, Neil surely had luck on his side; survival of rammings, crashes, and gunfire, an evacuee rather than prisoner of the Germans and in his last year as a soldier, a wartime romance. While convalescing at the hospital, he met and fell in love with his physiotherapist, Betty Maraven-Williams. He said that after meeting her, he never looked at another woman in his life. In hospitals run by the Red Cross, physio was therapy considered important for recovering soldiers.
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Widowed from her first unhappy marriage, Betty married Neil in July 1946 in Birmingham. Felicity was flower girl at the wedding. Neil became a step-father and fathered two children, Sara and Mary. The couple remained together for more than 50 years.
Plucky Dad survived five years of dutiful military service, culminating in a battle so fierce that thousands of compatriots were wounded, died or taken prisoner. Small wonder he was always ready to take a chance, betting on anything that moved, dogs, footballers and horses as leisure pursuits. Luck had served him well.
Though angry that he had missed the chance to serve at D-Day in June 1944, Dad recalled that his war service was the time in his life when he felt the most alive. He formed a long distance, and abiding camaraderie with surviving soldiers and pilots. While sharing little of his actual experiences, he maintained an active lifelong membership in the Canadian Legion. Encouraged by his daughters he sent for his war service medals and wore them with pride at Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Vancouver Cenotaph, before retiring to his local Legion to swap tales over beers with comrades. He never flew a plane again.
The father I knew continued his exemplary life in peacetime dedicated to his spouse and family, church, community, and country after the war. I believe that service to others was one of his best ways of showing love.
Family lore tells of three destinations Neil and Betty considered for post war emigration in 1952: New Zealand, Tanganyika, and Canada. I gratefully speculate that Neil might have chosen Canada as the most peaceful option following his turbulent, wartime life. He remained a responsible, humble, peaceful man, occasionally lucky at the horses and lotteries and Legion meat draws until his death at 83 years in 1997.
Sara E. McEwan December 12, 2013
"No man's life can be encompassed in one telling.
There is no way to give each year its allotted weight,
to include each event, each person who helped to shape
a lifetime. What can be done is to be faithful in spirit
to the record and try to find one's way to the heart of the man."
Mahatma Gandhi
Sources:
Registration of Birth: Felicity Anne Elizabeth Maraven-Williams.
Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Log Book Neil McEwan
Territorial Army Record of Service Paper
Strength of Transfer for Family lore, Felicity, Sara & Betty McEwan
Internet: Glider Pilot lore & history Forum:wildbillgardner.com
Arnhem 1944 The Airborne Battle, Martin Middlebrook 1994
Neil McEwan's bits of paper.
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WAR MEMORIALS
Nearly every community across Canada, as well as public associations and civic groups maintain a war memorial. Canadian military personnel who made the supreme sacrifice are buried in commonwealth cemeteries across Europe. Canadians at home commemorated these brave souls by raising money for local memorials that were usually placed in positions of prominence near city halls, in downtown parks, or near other memorials. Most memorials had inscribed upon them the names of the community’s dead,.
Fernie, British Columbia
Boer War 1899-1902 Ottawa
Russell, Manitoba
National Aboriginal Monument - Ottawa
Métis Veteran’s Memorial -Batoche, Saskatchewan
Newly unveiled Beverly Memorial, 17 October, 1920
(City of Edmonton Archives, EA-160-14)
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DADDY, WHY IS GRANDPA CRYING?
By Dr. Sheila D. Genaille, LL.D
Alexander and Julia Genaille married about 1910 and had six children, four boys and two girls. They homesteaded near Shellmouth, Manitoba and Alexander hunted and trapped to feed his family. Alexander and Julia’s first-born Peter died age eight and, on March 29, 1930 aged 43, Julia also passed away leaving Alexander to raise five young children all under the age of 15. The three boys. Louis, William, and Philip, stayed with their father and the two girls, Clara and Della went to live with their maternal grandmother.
Alexander struggled to keep food on the table and the boys learned to hunt and trap and found work where they could. Louis and William attended school, but they dropped out shortly after their mother died and the youngest son, Philip, never did go to school as his mother died the year he was to begin. Philip once told me that his grandfather Louis said that he knew Philip would never go to school now that his mother was gone, so Grandfather Louis took it upon himself and declared: “I will teach you the fiddle”. Philip became adept at music and his love of playing the fiddle lasted all his life.
Métis were renowned for their love of music and dance. Each family had at least one fiddle player and their instruments were often hand made from maple wood and birch. Métis were not formally trained in music, and it is said, Métis tuned their fiddles to the ‘cry of the loon and the bellow of a rutting moose’. Louis must have taught all his grandsons, as my dad William, also played the fiddle and guitar. Dad played music ‘by ear’ as he would listen to a tune and would then begin to play. Dad had no formal training, did not read sheet music, all he had was keen listening skills and his remarkable musical talent.
Many Métis composed their own tunes and were passed generation to generation. Many of the fiddle players were also storytellers and keepers of history, and in the Genaille family, William had these roles.
In 1938, my dad, William married his love, Vina. They began a family with a son and daughter but finding gainful employment was difficult. Jobs were scarce and fortunately William was a skilled hunter and trapper and could add to his meager income with the animals he caught and sold.
With the breakout of World War II, brothers Louis and William both enlisted along with their cousin John (Alexander’s brother’s son). The Genaille boys were full of life and like all young men of that time, did not know the horrors of war or what atrocities lay ahead. William left his wife, son, and daughter who was just a toddler. When he was deployed to Europe, he did not know his wife was pregnant carrying twins. The twins would be three years old before they met their father for the first time. Louis and John were both single.
Home before being deployed
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Louis enlisted October 29, 1941 at Brandon, Manitoba and in his attestation papers: “Personal information: No health complaints. A husky looking individual. Interested in getting overseas and isn’t fussy about what unit he goes with. A cheerful, stable, well balanced man.”
L-R: Brothers William and Louis Genaille
Louis was deployed and arrived in Liverpool March 29, 1942. For the next two years he did various jobs at the base in England. Dad said he had met an English girl and they were going to get married after the war ended. How long they dated or what happened to her, I do not know.
Louis was a member of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and was posted in England with the Regiment.
The years in the United Kingdom was spent in coastal defence and training in various parts of the country.
Dad was a member of Fort Garry Horse and deployed to Europe. He was on the front lines and trained as a mechanic for the tanks. He was wounded and a letter was sent to Mom. A cousin was living with Mom during the war years and told me “a telegram arrived and your mother was too afraid to open it. It stayed on the table a number of days before she got the courage to open it”. Those that received telegrams during the war assumed the worst, their loved one had been killed in battle. Fortunately, dad did survive for if he had been killed, I would not have been born.
Louis became part of Canada’s longest Second World War campaign in Italy (1943-1945). More than 93,000 Canadians along with allies from Britain, France and the United States served in the nearly two years of fighting across Sicily and up the Italian peninsula, at a cost of almost 26,000 Canadian causalities.
Louis was deployed from England to Italy in September 1944. The autumn and winter of 1944 saw the Canadians back on the Adriatic coast with the objective of breaking through the Gothic Line. This line, running roughly between Pisa and Pesaro, was the last major German defence line separating the Allies from the Po Valley and the great Lombardy Plain in northern Italy. Since many factories producing vital supplies were located in the north, the Germans would fight hard to prevent a breakthrough. The line was formidable, composed of machine-gun posts, anti-tank guns, mortar- and assault-gun positions and tank turrets set in concrete, as well as mines, wire obstacles and anti-tank ditches.
Louis was wounded December 20, 1944 in the field his war records indicate he had a stomach, right thigh and right knee wound. He died December 27, 1944 of his wounds and as the records are sparse nothing is written about the days between being wounded and death. Cousin John Henry died in France on August 12, 1944.
Between 1939 and 1945 more than one million Canadian men and women served full-time in the armed services. More than 43,000 were killed.
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In Memory of
Private Louis Genaille
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry,R.C.I.C.
who died on 27 December 1944
Private GENAILLE
Remembered with honour
CESENA WAR CEMETERY
Commemorated in perpetuity by
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
In Memory of
Lance Sergeant John H. Genaille
Lake Superior Regiment (Motor), R.C.I.C.
who died on August 12, 1944
Lance Sergeant GENAILLE
Remembered with honour
BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE
Commemorated in perpetuity by
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Families with sons overseas would have kept informed through radio broadcasts and news reels. In Louis’ home town, fourteen sons did not return and the first casualty was June 1942. Many families would fear receiving the telegram as they would understand immediately what it meant. Over the course of the war and especially in small towns many families would lose a son or daughter and each time a telegram was received the whole town would hear the news
Alexander would have known that William had been wounded and undoubtedly worried about the safety of his two sons. Would they both return home to him? When would the war end? Constant worry and fear must have been part of the daily lives of families ‘back home’.
Alexander’s worst fear was realized when he received ‘the telegram; informing him that Louis had been wounded in battle and would later receive the final telegram that Louis died of his wounds.
What sorrow and sadness he must have felt, would his other son William suffer the same fate or would he be spared and return home to his wife, children and father.
Dad, like all veterans who served on the front lines, came home suffering PTSD and unfortunately was never treated. He grieved for his brother Louis and cousin John all his life and there would be periods, which I now understand, were flashbacks to Europe. One particular time, Dad and I were talking and I was recording his stories and asked if he wanted to talk about the war. He started speaking and about five minutes later he was no longer in the kitchen with me, but somewhere in Europe. The pain and sorrow overtook him and he had to stop and go for a walk. He insisted we continue when he returned and told me about his brother and cousin (stories too long to relate here).
For a young girl, Grandpa Alexander seemed always so happy and loved to visit us, his only grandchildren. He gave unconditional love and always had time for each of us. One day, at a young age, I remember Grandpa visiting us and sitting with his head down, he started to cry. “Daddy, why is Grandpa crying?”, I asked. His reply “he is crying for Uncle Louis”. Daddy’s answer was more confusing than Grandpa crying. “Who is Uncle Louis?”, I asked. Daddy replied, “Grandpa’s son and my brother”.
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Even as young as I was, I understood the family connection. Since I had never met this Uncle, my next question was, “Where is Uncle Louis”? Daddy answered, “He was killed in the war”. I understood the word killed; however, the total meaning of war was lost on my young mind. Daddy’s answer would suffice as I now knew why Grandpa was crying.
Many times, over the following years, and up to his death, I saw Grandpa crying, but I knew why and never again had to ask “Daddy, why is Grandpa crying”?
Lest we forget N'oublions pas
Sources
Veterans Affairs Canada
Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry Museum
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Canadian Encyclopedia
WAR MEMORIALS – WEBSITES
We will Remember War Monuments in Canada www.cdli.ca/monuments/index.htm
Veterans Affairs Canada www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canada
Manitoba Historical Society www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/features/warmemorials/index.shtml Saskatchewan Vitual War Memorial https://svwm.ca/
Did you know: The small hamlet Rivière Qui Barre celebrated Remembrance Day in 2018 with its first-ever war memorial, a fitting occasion on the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Before 2018, celebrations took place in the legion, school or church.
Did you know: Less than two years after the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the first cenotaph in Alberta was dedicated in the Town of Beverly. The trauma of the First World War was still fresh in the minds of the members of the Beverly Veterans’ Association and other servicemen and citizens who gathered at the southwest corner of 118th Avenue and 40th Street (Edmonton) on Sunday, October 17, 1920.
A local paper, the Morning Bulletin, reported it was a beautiful autumn afternoon when a monument “erected by the Beverly veterans institute in the memory of their comrades fallen in the war” was unveiled at 3 p.m. Dignitaries at the ceremony included Lieutenant Governor George Brett, Brigadier-General William Griesbach, Edmonton Mayor Joe Clarke and Beverly Mayor Fred Humberstone.
(Edmonton City as a Museum Project)
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www.edmontongenealogy.ca
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TRACING Your FAMILY TREE
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Join us for one or more workshop in the series of six where instructors will
point out the special skills and tools needed to research your family history.
They will guide you in your research regardless of what level you are at and
show you strategies to find the records you need.
GENEANLOGY WORKSHOP SERIES 2020
Finding Your French Family
Saturday, February 8, 2020 (10:00 am – 3:00 pm)
Organizing Your Genealogy Records: Paper and Digital Files
Saturday, February 29, 2020 (10:00 am – 3:00 pm)
Suggestions for Successful Scottish Research
Saturday, March 14th (10:00 am – 3:00 pm)
Locating Ancestors From and In Eastern Europe
Saturday, April 4th (10:00 am – 3:00 pm
DNA – It is More Than Just Spitting in a Tube
Saturday, May 9th (10:00 am – 3:00 pm)
My Ancestors Came from England, Wales, and Ireland
Saturday, June 13th (10:00 am – 3:00 pm)
Visit the website www.edmontongenealogy.ca
click on courses to download the application form
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Can You Help?
The Edmonton Branch AGS Research Services Committee recently received a request to assist in identifying the five men in the photo and hopefully locating the owner.
The back of the photo only says “Post Card, Made in Canada”.
An almost impossible task one would think but we are putting out the challenge. If you know who they are or have any suggestions on how we could assist please email Norma Wolowyk at [email protected]. Your help would be very much appreciated!!
EDMONTON BRANCH – NEWS
Edmonton Branch Library is now open the 1st Saturday of each month from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm. You can now visit the library two Saturdays each month (1st and 3rd) to use the resources and borrow books. The Edmonton Branch Library Catalogue can be searched online at www.edmontongenealogy.ca. Search the catalogue, create a book bin, add books to bin, print off the list and bring to Library.
Alberta Name Index (ANI)
Edmonton Branch launched its newest genealogical resource online. ANI (Alberta Name Index) that offers a quick and simple unified search for many Alberta genealogical records that includes an easy search for Alberta residents named in various sources including; Probates, Local Histories, Obituaries, Coroner Records, Land Records ( but not early homesteads), etc.
The entries will lead you directly to the information you need to locate the original records. Go to www.edmontongenealogy.ca homepage and click on ANI, she may give you some lucky tips!!
CARDS to members: Each month Edmonton Branch sends out cards on behalf of the Branch to members and their families. If you would like a card sent to a member please send request to [email protected]
TAKE AND DONATE
4 drawer file cabinet and 2 drawer file cabinet
Please remove by December 1st Linda will show you which cabinets and you may give her the donation for the Branch.
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IN THE LIBRARY
F R O M T H E S T A C K S By Heather Harper
Family Histories
• Leslie family tree
• Chayko, Charuk, Cherniawsky, Wynnychuk, Didyk, Cucheran: Family Reunion 2001
• Harcourt update
• Blois Family History
• MacDhubhsith
• MacFie
• Gift of Words (Stevens)
• Humble Roots (MacNamara)
• Pietrzykowski Family
• Royal/Lacasse Family History
• James McMasters & Family: To Quinte & Beyond
• Zakariasen Family 1888-2018 Denmark to Delia Alberta
• Peter McGrath & Winnifred Jordan McGrath Family Story
• Tschirren Family
• Our Marvelous M(a)cDonald 1788-1988
• More Marvelous M(a)cDonalds 1776-1990
• Genealogie de familles Riopel: Gilbert Riopel
Local Histories
• Historic Hants County
• South Augusta and its Environs
• Falmouth - A New England
• Colonsay and Oronsay
• A Genealogy of Badenoch families: Puslinch Township, Wellington County, Ontario
• East Whitby Mosaic 1867-1967
• Lucknow, The Place we call home
• Beauvallon: Entering the Valleys of Hope -R. Fuyarchuk & L. Chomiak
• Carberry & N. Cypress: The People of the Plain
• Lomond: History of Lomond & District - Lomond Historical Society
• Swan Hills: Pipe Line to the Past -Swan Hills Historical Society
Local Histories
Alberta - Edmonton
• Crestwood Centennial 1917 - 2017 - Mark Hopkins & Robert Morrison
• After the Fur Trade: Living on the Land (Edmonton) -Carol Snyder
• Memories of Bonnie Doon - Tom Monto
• Kick the Can: Highlands -Carol Snyder
SASKATCHEWAN
• Milestone: From Prairie Plow to Now -Milestone History Book Committee
• Southey: Pioneers & Progress - Southey History Committee
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Local Histories - continued
• Medicine Hat: The Weather Factory - D.C.Jones, L.J.R. Wilson, D.White
• Medicine Hat 1883 – 1983 - Ed Gould
• Ever to Excel, Vermilion School of Agriculture
MANITOBA
• Carberry / North Cypress 1882 - 2007 -Carberry-North Cypress 125 History Book Committee
Other Books
• Dictionary of Ukrainian Canadian biography
• Pioneer settlers of Saskatchewan Dash Assiniboia 1892 -1904
• Cornish names
• Clansman of Nova Scotia
• The Irish emigrant settler in Pioneer Kawarthas
• Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes Volumes 2-5
• Preserving Women's history: Introductory guide to Preserving the Records of Women's Lives
• Ukrainian Canadian Archives & Museum of Alberta
• Riel - A Life of Revolution
• Alberta History along the Highway
• Surnames & Genealogy, a New Approach
• Victorian Houseware Hardware and Kitchenware: Pictorial archive with over 2000 illustrations
• Bessarabia: German Colonists on the Black Sea
• Workhouse Encyclopedia
• McLaughlin Guide to 1901 Census and how to tackle it
• Tracing your Georgian Ancestors 1714-1837
• Tracing Villains and their Victims
• Tracing History Through Title Deeds
• Tracing your Ancestor Through Equity Courts
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MAGAZINES
England: Who Do You Think You Are? Aug 2019 -10
-Quick Tips to start you family tree
-Gazettes Online -Salesman in your tree
-Uncover Musicians -Shetland surnames
-BillionGraves app. -Peterloo Massacre
-Wellington’s Army -Major events 1800 - 1809
-Cornwall directory
Who Do You Think You Are? Oct 2019
-Register Offices -Dockyard Documents
-Russian Flu 1890 -Best Websites: understanding DNA
-Merchant Navy Crew Lists -Forebears in the Pottery Industry
-Ancestry’s hints function -Workhouse records
-Siansbury Archive -Somerset Kin
Who Do You Think You Are? Oct 2019
-Register Offices -Dockyard Documents
-Russian Flu 1890 -Best Websites: understanding DNA
-Merchant Navy Crew Lists -Forebears in the Pottery Industry
-Ancestry’s hints function -Workhouse records
-Siansbury Archive -Somerset Kin
Family Tree: Aug 2019
-Date Family Photos -Adoptions
-Wars of the Roses; 1400 -Records of Death & Burial
-Royal Marines -Marriage Registers
-Studying Surnames
Family Tree: Nov 2019
-Explore your family story -Find burial places
-Cork: A community history project -Pendle witches -Publish & preserve
-Maps & land ownership -Keep track of DNA discoveries
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Scotland: The Scottish Genealogist: June 2019
-Shipping between the Rotterdam & The Firth of Forth: 1675 - 1695
- Sir Robert Hepburn - James Steele: forger
-The Herd Laddie - Agnes Heriot
United States: Family Tree: Sept 2019
-101 Best genealogy Websites
-FamilySearch Hacks
-Genealogy on a budget
-French Ancestors
-DNA Ethnicity Estimates
-State Research: Tennessee, Montana
The Scottish Genealogist: Sept 2019
-Ogilvie, Brownlow, MacDonald, Otto
Internet Genealogy: Oct / Nov 2019
-History of early newspaper names
-Ships at Lloyd’s registers
-Library records
-Witnesses
-Effective ways to translate documents
GENERAL Internet Genealogy: Aug/Sept 2019
-Finding Elusive ancestors
-Clutter: organize
-Washington State Archives
-Non-conformist Family Records
-5 Go-To Sites
-Picnics of the Past
-Unusual Sources
Your Genealogy Today: July/Aug 2019
-Preserve Old family Letters
-Passive vs Active Genealogy
-Hassle Free Heritage Travel
-Ghost Town Genealogy
-Family History Writing -Measuring Your Success as a Genealogy Speaker
Your Genealogy: Sept/Oct 2019
-Ireland: Finding Lost Children
-Cemetery Secrets
-Jewish Genealogy in New York City
DECEMBER CLANDIGGER
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