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My 9th great grandfather is John Banks (1619-1685) who was born in Essex (England) and moved to the colony of Connecticut in 1634. He marrri...

Today is the 78th anniversary of D-Day—the day British, Canadian, and American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in World War II. 1 ...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! These are my great-grandparents Thomas Keys Foster, born in County Tyrone on September 5, 1852 and Eliza Ann Jo...

Today is the 75th anniversary of D-Day—the day British, Canadian, and American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy. 1 For us baby bo...

The Canadian Broadcastng Company (CBC) has a TV show called Marketplace that promotes itself as an advocate of consumers' rights. It ha...

I'm very impressed with the DNA test administered by Ancestry.com. They report that I have over 600 fourth cousins or closer but I have ...

This is the latest update from Ancestry.com. Their algorithms are getting better and better. This corresponds very closely to what I know of...

Today is the Fête Nationale in France known also as "le quatorze juillet" or Bastille Day . This is the day in 1789 when French ci...

Monday, April 11, 2016 My DNA ancestry I sent a DNA sample off to ancestry.com a few weeks ago and here are the results. Monday, Novem...

Ancestry.com (ancestry.ca) has this neat feature where they combine all their family trees into a big "One World" tree. If you kno...

I sent a DNA sample off to ancestry.com a few weeks ago and here are the results. Ancestry has a peculiar way of identifying haplotypes. ...

Today Google celebrates the birthday of Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942). She is the author of Anne of Green Gable...

Last week we went to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada) with our grandson Luca [see The Latest Excursion ]....