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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 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 [...]

A couple times now I’ve been tasked with creating a family tree for family reunions.  Finally I decided to invest in some software and merge all the information I had or could find easily into one big family tree.  The software I bought was Reunion 9 which is expensive and Mac-only.  However I did some [...]