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Lisa Maguire, David LaneYour family has a story. Your family were makers of history. ancestory is the place where family stories and history meet.
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Mons 1918: The Heart's Country
Ruins of Persepolis. Albert Lamourisse, Lover’s Wind (still) 1969
I have a single memory of my great-aunt Isabelle.
I am five or six. We are visiting her home on Montreal’s South Shore, one of many identical houses in a postwar subdivisi...
Seattle 1967: Ralph Rising
The nearest past is the most easily lost.
You are already grown by the time you understand that your parents are people. You will never really know about their lives. Too much has sunk below the surface. It’s not for their children to see...
Griffintown 1867: The Heart of It Is Not in the Chosen
Election hustings, 1860s. Source: The Victorian Commons https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com
Who was the first person in the history of your family granted the right to vote?
When was the last time someone in your family was legally d...
Waterloo 1883: Please Tell A Little Pilgrim
Immigration Party, Barkingside, UK, 1907, Source: Home Children Canada
In the early decades of the twentieth century the Montreal Star featured a classified advertising section called “Missing Relatives” for people trying to locate lost lo...
Six Books That Teach the Craft of History
and recently invited us to think about the books that shaped us. How are our libraries our own living archives? What books tell our story?
Most of my collection consists of history books. I had always wanted to be a historian. I realized...
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Your family has a story. Your family were makers of history. ancestory is the place where family stories and history meet.
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