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Global Gazette Articles
 Yukon, Canada 
Genealogy & History
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Yukon Specific Articles
Canadian Articles - Possibly Including Yukon
- Did Your Cdn Immigrant Come Via NY By Rick Roberts. Recently, while searching the free online passenger lists at CastleGarden.org I encountered a result that left me speechless (not an easy accomplishment).
- Royal Canadian Rifles 1840-1883 By Rick Roberts. The Royal Canadian Rifles was a British Army regiment that was mostly made up of long-serving soldiers who were nearing retirement age. The military brass predicted that 'old' soldiers would be reluctant to do anything that might result in the loss of their army pensions. The fact that the long-serving men had not deserted up until this time also helped to ensure the success of the regiment.
- Birth, Marriage & Death Records By Fawne Stratford-Devai. The government registration of births, marriages and deaths, is usually referred to as civil registration. In Canada, the responsibility for all aspects of civil registration falls to the individual provinces and territories.
- Visiting Nat. Archives By: Norman K. Crowder. Here is some information that may be helpful if you are visiting the National Archives of Canada (NAC) for the first time.
- Archiving Research Data The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), in partnership with the National Archives of Canada (NAC), invites researchers to contribute to a national consultation on the archiving of research data.
- Provincial Archives' Web Sites By Ryan Taylor. I set myself the task of reading the websites for all ten provincial archives. Really reading them, too, not just skimming the headings. I have not finished, but already I am surprised by the variety.
- National Archives Association Raising CAIN By Sandra Devlin. It is a popular misconception that an archives is a place where historic documents are squirreled away. What archives are really all about is having things and having them accessible to the public,”
- Finding Lumbermen Ancestors By Ryan Taylor. The first things the Canadian pioneer had to do was chop down trees. Throughout the nineteenth century there was always a need for lumbermen, first to help the settlers chop and then in larger scale lumbering operations. These could be found upriver in New Brunswick, in Quebec and on both sides of the Ottawa River.
- Finding Your "Strays" By Sandra Devlin. Genealogically speaking, a stray is a person described in a record as being from, or connected with, a place outside the area in which an event took place. For example, someone dies in one place, but was born in another.
- Online resources - LAC By Fawne Stratford-Devai. This issue of English and Welsh Roots takes a look at new Inventories and online indexes available from the National Archives of Canada which contain important information about English and Welsh immigrants to Canada.
- Passenger Lists 1865 - 1919 By Ryan Taylor. The hot news in Canadian genealogical circles is about passenger lists. When our ancestors crossed the Atlantic, the ship's captain was obliged to make a list of the people on board his boat. Sometimes the list was made for the authorities at the port of embarkation, whether it was Liverpool, Le Havre, Amsterdam or Hamburg.
- English & Welsh To Canada By Fawne Stratford-Devai. This issue of English and Welsh Roots offers resources and assistance for two researchers who have sent email requests for help in locating family members who came to Canada during the 20th century.
- Finding Elusive Places In Cda By Alan Rayburn. Recently a lady wrote to me from Cheboygan, Michigan, and asked me where "Cronsound" was located in Ontario, which she had seen in three different sources.
- Military Sources & Sites By: Fawne Stratford-Devai. Often when researching our English and Welsh roots we fail to search Canadian military records for information about our ancestors.
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Searching For Female Kin By: Sandra Devlin. Sandra discusses on-line searchable Canadian databases for researching Female Kin. 5th article in a series.
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Women's History Month By: Sandra Devlin. The fourth in a series of columns dealing with the female side of your genealogical record, I point out some biographies/stories/journals of famous, infamous and not-so-well known Canadian women.
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Goldmine - Female Ancestors By: Sandra Devlin. This is the third in a series of columns about researching women in your pedigree charts.
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Researching Women Ancestors By: Sandra Devlin. This column is the second in a series dedicated to encouraging genealogists to focus a concerted effort to include their women ancestors, as well as the male lines.
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Researching Women Ancestors By: Sandra Devlin. This column is the first in a series dedicated to encouraging genealogists to focus a concerted effort to include their women ancestors, as well as the male lines.
- World War I Resources By: Ryan Taylor. Some time ago I wrote about a query from Karen Russell of Peterborough, who wanted to know how to find out more about the circumstances of her great-uncle's death in World War I. Karen recently wrote to me to say that her search was very successful.
- The Hessian Soldiers - Part I By Fred Vickerson. Who were these "foreign mercenaries" and what relevance do they have to our pursuit of genealogy. These are the questions I will attempt to answer in this two part series.
- The Hessian Soldiers - Part IIBy Fred Vickerson. Who were these "foreign mercenaries" and what relevance do they have to our pursuit of genealogy. These are the questions I will attempt to answer in this two part series.
- Chronology of Railway History By Colin Churcher, Rick Roberts. 1720-1997
- National Registration of 1940 By Bill Martin. If one resided in Canada in 1940 he/she was probably included in the National Registration that took place in that year.
- 1801-1849 Immigrant Lists By: Ryan Taylor. The pre-1850 passenger and immigrant lists at the National Archives of Canada can now be accessed free of charge.
- Three New Resources & Advice By: Ryan Taylor. Here's potpourri, three new resources and some good advice.
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War Graves - Update By: Ryan Taylor.
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World War One Unit Diaries By: Ryan Taylor. War diaries were kept by all units in the field. From your relation's personal record, you will be able to determine what unit he joined. You can read the unit's actual diaries from the battles they fought or their times off the line in England or France.
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Making The Leap Over The Atlantic By: Ryan Taylor. Charles Roth of Waterloo, Ontario has written asking several general questions about taking the genealogical leap over the Atlantic.
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