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Supposing that you find an ancestor in the 1916 Canada Census who was born in England.
How do you find them in records of England or Wales? For example:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6QLS-ZN4?
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What is "The Seven Mile Rule"?
The basic idea is that prior to rapid transportation, a young man usually had to find a wife somewhere close to his own home. In rural areas, the common means of transportation was walking. A young man might be allowed to take off a little time for courting, so long as he was back in time for evening chores. If he walked at a ...
https://www.edmontongenealogy.ca/edmonton-family-history-fair
Edmonton
Family History Fair 2025
The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and Alberta Genealogical Society Edmonton Branch
hav...
When registering for the Edmonton Family History Fair, I was asked to submit the story and a photo of an ancestor. This is what I submitted.
I can appreciate the power of stories! When I was about 9 years old, my father and his brother told me how their grandfather John Buchanan, as a teenager had come to Canada in a wooden sai...
