Between 1840 and 1930 approximately 900,000 French Canadians migrated to the New England states looking for work in cities growing due t...

Sometimes when you are searching for something, you have to think outside the box. Can't find your ancestor in a regular city director...

No country has everything they need or would like, and there are records of Trade existing back to the 19th century BC.  As methods of tr...

Many of us find our ancestors in directories and census, and then they disappear! If that happened to you, and your ancestors were from ...

My Dad always bought second and third hand cars, and always from the same dealer near our home. He and my brother were always working on c...

Because the title of these publications is " The Illustrated Atlas of the County Of ..." you may not have noticed the hidden gem...

In 1932 the Coatwelll Paint & Varnish company opened in their new building on Nazareth Street in Montreal. It was owned by Frederic...

Today is International Tea Day. My husband took me to High Tea at the Empress Hotel on our honeymoon.  What an experience (even if, since...

This is an interesting directory I came across this past week .... "Official register of legally qualified other practitioner...

Don't you wish every county had a directory like this one from 1896?? The Encyclopedic Directory of Clay County, Indiana :...

This is NOT for the faint of heart.  R eaders discretion is advised. This week I came across this publication. It is a Directo...

I came across this book the while researching Royal genealogy... The Royal Kalendar and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, ...

When I started doing genealogy online I didn't expect to find so much of interest.  As far as I knew my ancestors were farm...

Music was a big part of my life growing up.  My Granny lived in a small 4 room cold-water flat in Verdun, but still made room for her...

I had a mystery of a postcard sent from my grandfather to my grandmother before they were married. Today I finally found the answer. In 19...