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Researching Census Records

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Christine Goodnough

Census records are another good source of information for genealogists. However, I’ve observed that ages are often the census taker’s guess rather than accurate fact. I suppose it wasn’t polite to ask ladies their ages, so a woman may be … Continue reading →

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Family Name Repeats

Posted on February 12, 2022 by Christine Goodnough

Joseph the son of Joseph the son of Joseph One of the challenges of tracing a family tree can be the repetition of names. Collecting and sorting data can lead you into a maze of repeated names, as every couple … Continue reading →

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Hello Family & Friends

Posted on February 11, 2022 by Christine Goodnough

It’s been several years since our last post on this blog. Cousin Linda B and I started it with bright hopes, but life intervened, with its various health issues for both of us. Lately, though, some in my family have … Continue reading →

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Great-Grampa’s Brother James Vance

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Christine Goodnough

When Great-Grandpa was killed in a hunting accident, the newspaper article mentioned that he was visiting his brother out West at the time. This would have been James, who lived near Neepawa, Manitoba. Two generations later our Uncle Steve met … Continue reading →

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Who Was Donald Vance?

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Christine Goodnough

The Case of the Missing Brother Doesn’t that sound like the good title for a mystery story? And indeed, this may well prove to be an unsolvable mystery. Of course we must first have a death… The genealogist pored through … Continue reading →

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David and Robert Vance

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Christine Goodnough

David Vance, son of Joseph and Sarah Vance and brother of our great grandfather, married Margaret Bullard on March 31, 1873. She was the daughter of John and Delia Bullard. According to the marriage registration she was about 23 and … Continue reading →

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Joseph and Margaret Vance

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Christine Goodnough

On thing about the duplication of names in our family tree, they sometimes tell you a lot. For example, there was a John Vance and his wife listed in the 1861 Oxford County, ON, census and their oldest two children … Continue reading →

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Family Bible Records

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Christine Goodnough

The Vance Family Bible is one of those cumbersome old tomes meant as a showpiece on a mantle. Its dimensions are 11 x 13 x 4.5″ thick — not something you’d carry along to Church every Sunday. It was presented … Continue reading →

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1950s Vance Family Reunions

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Christine Goodnough

Somewhere in a blizzard of papers I found this clipping. Here we see the Family Reunions our Ontario cousins had once upon a time. The Robert Vance mentioned here was a brother to our Great-great-grandfather Joseph. Thus Mrs Leach’s grandfather … Continue reading →

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Cleaning Up the Clutter

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Linda C Butler

Clean Up the Clutter by Linda C Butler Sometimes we need a fresh start and a new beginning and we need to create space in our lives for the projects we want to do.  We need to prune out the … Continue reading →

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