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Climbing Family Trees: Need to Share Your Findings
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (174+ words) If youu2019ve been considering a DNA test, FamilyTreeDNA is offering a sale rightnow. For $39.00 you can get an autosomal DNA test: thatu2019s the one that can uncoverrelatives you didnu2019t know you had. They call theirs the u201cFamily Finder test.u201d It is also the one…...
You have two Canadian ancestors. Just picking the closer one could cost you years
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (811+ words) Say your mother's mother was born in Quebec. Say your father's father's father was born in Ontario. Both were Canadian. Either one could anchor your claim. Almost everyone picks the grandmother. The logic looks sound—fewer names, fewer records, fewer…...
Family history project reconnects Oxford author with Saskatchewan relatives
1+ week, 4+ day ago (350+ words) CONQUEST, Sask. — A family history project has led an Oxford, England, author to reconnect with relatives in Saskatchewan he never knew existed. Gareth Winrow's latest book, Past Lives, Forgotten Stories: Cobbled Patchworks of History, traces several branches of his family…...
Long-Lost Son Reunites With Father After 55 Years
1+ week, 5+ day ago (574+ words) Long-lost son meets father and dozens of relatives in an emotional family reunion. For 19 years, Joshua Schneeloch watched parents arrive at a German Catholic orphanage and take other children home. Each time, the same question settled into his young heart:…...
'Walk a mile in my moccasins': Family marches to Regina seeking answers in Gerald Straightnose death
2+ week, 4+ day ago (128+ words) Regina Leader-Post “It’s been 14 months; my son’s been gone, and I want answers. This is why we’re doing this walking, to try and find out what happened to him." YORKTON — As Janice Straightnose and her family make the more than…...
He can’t communicate and only goes by ‘Lucky.’ Is this mystery man in a Dutch nursing home really a Canadian from Ontario?
3+ week, 3+ day ago (626+ words) An Amsterdam man has gone unidentified for three years. A new lead indicates he could be originally from Ontario. A man who goes by Lucky has been living in an Amsterdam nursing home for three years. He cannot communicate who…...