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My genealogical research continues, with my grandmother taking an interest and offering to fund it, so I broke down and joined Ancestry.ca at least for now. I had already consumed most of the documents in my immediate families possession, read books, searched the Internet, asked questions, and put everything I knew into Reunion 9. This [...]

I haven’t been actively researching my family’s genealogy but did acquire a copy of the Book of MacKay by Angus MacKay and my grandfather’s war records. I haven’t had time to go through the former but I dutifully added the latter to my Reunion 9 database. My previous posts both here and on various genealogy [...]

I just finished watching the documentary “Hitler’s Children” on the Knowledge Network.  It isn’t a great film, but it did get me thinking. Adolf Hitler of course had no children, but other members of the inner circle had children and now grand children. A Jewish filmmaker interviewed several of them and asked them about how [...]

I haven’t done that much more work on my family’s genealogy, but one of the books in our possession is a self published volume entitled “The Dougans of Cobble Hill”.  This was produced by Nathan Dougan or based on his writings and documents in his possession.  It has a fairly accurate family tree for Dougans [...]

I’ve spent much of the last 24 hours entering Muschamp ancestors into Reunion 9 from “Northumberland Families Volume One” augmented by other sources.  My biggest contribution is filling out the Emerson Muschamp portion of the family tree found on page 49.  I also have some notes on other Muschamps who were born in the 1900s.  [...]