Welcome to The Family Attic, home to: Roots to the Past genealogy column Researcher's File genealogy queries Atlantic Canada's Genealogy Calendar Sources for Atlantic Canada Census Returns The Lonely Grave Diana's Index for Genealogy Books Veterans of Guysborough County Project Harrigan Cove - an adopted community
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Roots to the Past
genealogy column
A selection of previously published columns I Hit the Genealogy Jackpot! Newfoundland's
Grand Banks Genealogy Website (December
22, 2005): Where should I start? Well, if you are researching family in
Newfoundland and Labrador, the place to start is the Newfoundland’s
Grand Banks Genealogy Site. Read More.
Obituary 101 - Writing the Perfect Obituary (November 2005): Recently, I gave a workshop on how to write a genealogy friendly obituary. We chose a fictional character as the deceased. The workshop involved the pertinent information every obituary should contain. Read More. Researching the Soldiers of the First World War (November 2005): Uncovering ancestral military history has never been easier. Thanks to the National Archives of Canada, the public can search more than 800,000 images of First World War attestation papers from the comfort of home. And it’s free! Read More. Herbert Edward Rymer, Where Are You? Missing Since 1929 (February 2006): Betty hasn’t seen her brother, Herbert, since he was sixteen. When Herbert arrived at Halifax, he mailed a post card home to his family at London, England. They eagerly awaited further news. It never came. Betty, now 96, wonders what happened to her youngest brother. Read More. Remembering and Researching the Forgotten Soldier (August 2006): On a recent trip to the supermarket, my son and I were greeted at the entrance by a uniformed gentleman. Tug Wilson manned a table displaying information about the Korean War. Between the postcards, pamphlets and books, Wilson, a Korea Veteran himself, said he was too young to serve in the Second World War, but that didn’t stop him from trying. Read More. A Cemetery in Need - The Porter's Lake Cemetery, Halifax County, NS (November 2006): If you have never been in a cemetery before, you really don’t know what you’re missing. The headstones within these sanctuaries are a treasure trove of genealogical information. Read More. Deciphering Old Handwriting (March 2007): We learn easier when we are having fun. If we are dreading the experience, it not only takes longer to learn, but we may get frustrated and quit. Read More. Genealogy - It's a Family Thing (April 2007): How many times have you wished you had started researching your family tree when you were younger? We can’t go back in time, but we can give future genealogists - our children and grandchildren - a head start. Read More. Requesting Information by Mail (June 2007): Let's face it. We all don’t live where our ancestors lived. Many of us don’t even live where our parents were born. And many of us, for one reason or another, are unable to travel to these places. This can make researching difficult. Read More. . . . more to come anderbo.com
has requested a reprint of "Dit Names"
for their
website. It will appear for one year, starting May 15, 2006 Genealogy Articles by Diana Lynn
Tibert on Helium
a place where writers write How to Create a Family Tree
: Every Family Has to Start Somewhere: Creating a family tree has
become an addictive hobby for millions
around the world. It continues to grow every year as people ask, "who
were my ancestors and where did they come from?" . . . .
Sharing Your Family with the World: When I first thought about creating a website to share information on my family name with the world, I was a little apprehensive. I had never created a website before and the Internet language was confusing. Still, I believed with a little reading and help from my Internet friends, a basic website could be made. . . . The Best Resource for Genealogy on the Internet: One can spend days listing great websites with the best resources for genealogy, but in reality, just one website is all that is needed. It is the portal to the thousands of websites on the Internet that are dedicated to genealogy. . . . |
Where Can you Read Roots to the Past? The following newspapers publish the genealogy column: Announcement (January
2008): The Dartmouth Laker
has been discontinued. The Southender
(Halifax) and the Bedford Magazine
continue to be published monthly.
Announcement (September 2007): Beginning in October, the Lunenburg Progress Enterprise and the Bridgewater Bulletin will be published on Tuesday instead of Wednesday. Announcement (April 2007): The Roots to the Past column will make its debut in the Dartmouth Laker, Southender (Halifax) and Bedford Magazine in June. Announcement (April 2007):
Due to format
changes in
the You section of the Halifax
Sunday Daily News, the Roots to the Past genealogy column will
be discontinued. The last column appeared April 8th.
New
Brunswick
Kings County Record - Sussex - Tuesday Times & Transcript - Moncton - Saturday Newfoundland The Western Star - Corner Brook - Thursday Nova Scotia The Citizen - Amherst - Saturday Bedford Magazine - Bedford - once a month The Bridgewater Bulletin - Bridgewater - Tuesday Dartmouth Laker - Dartmouth & Cole Harbour - once a month The Guysborough Journal - Guysborough Co. - once a month The Lunenburg Progress Enterprise - Lunenburg - Tuesday Southender - Halifax - once a month NOTE: The
Bridgewater Bulletin and Lunenburg Progress
Enterprise can be purchased at Atlantic
News-stand at 5560 Morris Street,
Daily Grind News-stand at 5686 Spring Garden Road, and News Break Cafe
at
287 Lacewood Drive Unit 101. These dealers receive the papers by
courier
on Wednesday afternoon.
If you enjoy reading the
column, please, let your
newspaper know. They
love receiving feedback from their readers. Follow the links to the
newspaper of your choice to find the contact information (email
addresses and mailing addresses) for each publication.
Genealogy
Announcements
from around Atlantic Canada updated: May 25,
2008
 Grass Roots of Lunenburg -
Plagiarized Book95,000 Records Added to NSHVS
websiteVeteran Photos Needed for
Stewiacke Valley Project
19th
Century British Newspapers Available Free On-line for a short time
Bluenose Sailor: Memoirs of
the
Sea, written more than 60 years ago republished
UPDATED: Help Declare 2009 the Year of the British Home Child . . . and more. |
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Queries - Updated February 5,
2008
The following pages
contain the queries already published in the Researcher's
File (which is published with the Roots
to the Past column). Click on the province to find the queries
published in that province's newspapers.
Newfoundland Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Brunswick Comments from Readers Glenda Daken of Oxford,
NS: "Thank you
for such a wonderful informative column, ‘Roots to the Past’. I read
your column each week without fail and enjoy it so much. Please,
continue as it is so informative and so well organized. Great work!"
Virginia Bergmann of Baddeck, NS: "I’m thrilled with the results from what you put for me in the Amherst paper! A lady saw it and wrote me a letter containing vital info that I needed for my research on the BERRY name! Thanks so much for this great service!" Tammy Curtis of Newfoundland: "I was told about your articles in the newspaper from a family member, so I decide to start buying the paper to check it out and I'm glad I did." Monika English of Port Coquitlam, BC: "I did get one letter by snail mail from Stephenville, NL. She ended up being a cousin of my late husband's. We did get in touch by telephone (she has no computer) and she gave me some more information for my Tree with a promise to get me some more." |
How
to
Submit a Query to the Researcher's
File It's
Free !
When
submitting queries,
ask one specific question. For example, ‘Who were Jane Smith’s
parents?’ or 'Looking for information on the Appleby family of Lewin's
Cove.'Add
information that will help identify the person such as date and
place of birth, and names of parents, spouses and siblings. Use the
date format, month (spelled out), day, year (i.e. May 23, 1897) to
avoid confusion.
Queries
can be
up to 35 words not including contact information.
Include a mailing address and
an email address.
NOTE:
Read
some of the queries already posted to learn more about the
format.
Send
Queries
with the Subject Line "Researcher's File" to: Diana Lynn
Tibert: tibert@ns.sympatico.ca
Unfortunately,
time does not permit me
to research the family trees of others, but I hope by posting queries,
I will help knock down brick walls and extend the branches of the tree.
If
queries
arrive through Canada Post and an answer is desired, please,
include a self-addressed-stamped envelope.
Please, do not send queries as attachments. Due to possible viruses, I will not open any attachments. If you do not want your contact information posted to the Internet, please, let me know. |
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The Lonely Grave - Coming Soon  |
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Diana's
Index for Genealogy Related Books
The
Harvest Train - When Maritimes Worked in the Canadian West 1890 - 1928
by A. A. MacKenzie (Maritime Names Only) History Along the Old Guysborough Road by M. Noreen E. Gray & Annie A. (Blois) Smith . . . more to come as time permits. Abbreviations: Postal Codes (Canada) and Zip Codes (United States) |
Genealogy Links, Books, Societies and Events These pages contain links specifically for the four provinces where my column is published. New Brunswick Newfoundland Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island General Genealogy Links of Interest NEW: Local Genealogy Books Currently Available for Sale from Local Authors |
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Atlantic Canada's Genealogy Calendar UPDATED: August 11, 2008  2008 Year of the Loyalist Learn about genealogy
events happening around
Atlantic Canada, including the many celebrating the arrival of the
Loyalists 225 years ago. If you know of an event, reunion, society
meeting or any other genealogy happening not listed, please, let me
know.
Armsworthy Reunion: August 8 to 10, 2008 Bergeron Reunion: July 18 to 19, 2009  |
Sources for Atlantic Canada Census Returns UPDATED: November 5, 2007 - A work in Progress A page for the many
sources of Atlantic Canada Census returns, including those for
Newfoundland who
did not join confederation until 1949.
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| Visiting the Four Atlantic
Provinces To order maps and tourist
guides and to view additional details on a province, visit their
tourism website.
New Brunswick: http://www.tourismnewbrunswick.ca/ Newfoundland: http://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/ Nova Scotia: http://www.destination-ns.com/default.asp Prince Edward Island: http://www.gov.pe.ca/visitorsguide/index.php3 |
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Veterans
of Guysborough County
 Book One of the Veterans
of Guysborough County will capture and preserve the identities of the
Second World War veterans. Everyone who served in Canada, overseas,
with the Army, Navy, Air Force, Merchant Navy and with Allied Forces
will be named.
Accompanying each name will be a 300-word biography and photo. (Updated
September 26, 2007)
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| Veteran Research
Around the Atlantic Provinces Saluting Our Veterans the Best Way We Know How (November 2007): Several years ago, while visiting the in-laws at Christmas time, a thick book under the tree caught my attention. It was a book about First and Second World War veterans, Read More. |
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| Canadian
Soldiers Executed during the First World War |
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Nova
Scotia Historical Vital Statistics - on-line since March
18, 2007 (updated May 2008)
www.novascotiagenealogy.com New Brunswick Searchable Vital Statistics on PANB - updated August 8, 2007 http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/GovRecs/VISSE/?L=EN |
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