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Dear Family and Friends,
Our Buchanan family came from County Tyrone Ireland in 1847. Because Grosse Isle was already beyond capacity, they were sent up the river to Kingston for quarantine aboard the ship. The father and a baby grand daughter died there of the fever.The marriage of my great uncle Richard James Watson
The local history of Millet, Alberta describes Dad's "Uncle Dick" as a bachelor.
Dad told me that Dick had married a Scottish nurse but the marriage apparently failed.
I recently received an email from someone through Wikitree.com saying that Dick married Mary Haddow in 1912. I was able to find marriage ind...
My close DNA match "Gail", was finally granted access to her late mother's adoption record.
We hoped it would identify the birth father. The mother was identified but the father was listed as Unknown. But the time and place fits the same pattern as another illegitimate child fathered by my uncle John Henry Buchanan.
So he is probably the father. The records of th...
I love personal histories. In 1985 I compiled a family history for my mother's relatives.
I contacted members of the extended family and asked them to send me the story of their branch of the family, and some of them even included photographs. There were fascinating stories of pioneers arriving from England, ...