Monday, September 17, 2012

New Website, Blogs, and Newspaper Articles

I have come across the following website, blogs, and newpaper articles this past week, and I thought you would be interested in them too -

Your Link to the Past www.yourlinktothepast.com $ A Professional Genealogy Research site that searches ancestors in Canada.

That’s Relative! http://thatsrelative.wordpress.com Krista Moore is back from an absence to writing her blog again, and this time, she is starting to explore Gills and Beatons surnames in Dominion Point, Exploits, Newfoundland.

Federal government calls for War of 1812 national monument
www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Federal+government+calls+1812+national+monument/7226903/story.html Chole Fedio from the Ottawa Citizen writes that is looks like the NCC is going to put up a monument on Parliament Hill in 2014.

Group tries to get Kingston Penitentiary heritage status www.ottawasun.com/2012/09/11/group-tries-to-get-kingston-penitentiary-heritage-status Peter Hendra writes in the Ottawa Sun that a group is being formed in Kingston (Ontario) to save the Kingston Penitentiary as an heritage site.

Digging through Stouffville's history www.yorkregion.com/opinion/columns/article/1501715--digging-through-stouffville-s-history Jim Mason, the editor of The Sun-Tribune of the York Region, writes about what Chris Burkholder found while renovating a house.