About Upper Canada Genealogy

This is where Upper Canada Genealogy comes in. My goal is to provide the best and most comprehensive set of resources for family history research in this period. This includes professional research services, indexes to hard-to-access records, free reference resources with information about Upper Canada history, geography and resource centres, and links to other useful sites.

After eight years in graduate school studying anthropology, I finally decided to make genealogy my life's work. Two years and 400 client reports later (mostly Canadian, American and British research), I decided to specialize in Upper Canada to help others researching in this difficult period and location.

As a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, I support its stringent code of ethics, including the principles of truthfulness, clarity and accuracy, and a commitment to support the collection and preservation of historical and genealogical records.

I am Past Chair of the Ontario Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and a member of the Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society.

I have researched and written the following genealogical studies:

• Women and Property in a Nineteenth Century Ontario County
• Ethnic Identity Among the Nineteenth Century Descendants of Hudson's Bay Company Fur Traders
• The Chant Family History, or descendants of Robert Chant (1758-1836) of Somerset, England

• Money-savings tips for genealogists
• Thirty-one ways to identify your immigrant ancestor's origins
• How to locate an ancestor in Ontario, Canada West or Upper Canada

My articles have appeared in the magazines Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy and Your Family Tree:

• "Family Migrations: Journey to the New World," Family Chronicle, August 2007.
  
• "We the Undersigned: Your Ancestors' Petitions," Family Chronicle, August 2007.
  
• "Is it True? The Genealogical Proof Standard," Family Chronicle, June 2007.
  
• "Digital History," Internet Genealolgy, May 2007.
  
• "Re-researching the Carter family," Family Chronicle, April 2007
  
• "Finding and Using Online Maps," Internet Genealogy, March 2007
  
• "Library and Archives Canada," Internet Genealogy, March 2007
  
• "Champlain Society Digital Collection," Internet Genealogy, January 2007
  
• "Finding a Wandering Relative: Proven strategies for tracking down ancestors who moved away from the family home," Family Chronicle, December 2006
  
• "Upper Canada Links," Your Family Tree, Autumn 2006
  
• "Finding Ancestral Artifacts on the 'Net'," Internet Genealogy, November 2006
  
• "Our Ancestors' Daily Lives," Internet Genealogy, November 2006
  
• "Learning about our ancestors' ships," Family Chronicle, October 2006
  
• "Tebo, Thibow or Thibeault?" Family Chronicle, October 2006
  
• "Family Tree Guide: A Review," Internet Genealogy, September 2006
  
• "Genealogy web sites worth surfing," Family Chronicle, August 2006
  
• "Do's and Don'ts," Family Chronicle, August 2006
  
• "Illustrating Your Ancestors' Lives," Family Chronicle, August 2006
  
• "Interviewing Relatives," Your Family Tree, July 2006
  
• "10 Reasons to Join the Godfrey Memorial Library," Internet Genealogy, July 2006
  
• "Giving Back: Join an Online Transcription Project," Internet Genealogy, Extra online edition, June 2006
  
• "Case Study: Who Was Madison Davis?" Internet Genealogy, Extra online edition, June 2006
  
• "Genealogy web sites worth surfing," Family Chronicle, June 2006
  
• "Proving Parentage: 25 Ways to Discover and Document a Parent-Child Link," Family Chronicle, June 2006
  
• "Top places to begin your research," Internet Genealogy, May 2006
  
• "More places to start your research," Internet Genealogy, May 2006
  
• "Genealogy web sites worth surfing," Family Chronicle, April 2006
  
• "Criminals in the Family Tree," Family Chronicle, April 2006
  
• "Genealogy web sites worth surfing," Family Chronicle, February 2006
  
• "Top 53 Places to Start Your Genealogy on the Internet," Family Chronicle, forthcoming...
• "Genealogical Etiquette," Family Chronicle, December 2005
  
• "Looking for Lists in the all the Right Places," Family Chronicle, October 2005
  
• "Canada's Home Children," Your Family Tree, August 2005
  
• "Seeing the Ancestral Homeland," Family Chronicle, August 2005
  
• "101 records you might have missed," Family Chronicle, June 2005
  
• "Avoiding common genealogical traps," Family Chronicle, February 2005
  
• "30 money saving tips," Your Family Tree, November 2004
  
• "Digging Deeper," Family Chronicle, October 2004
  
• "Twenty-five websites for Canadian Genealogy," Family Chronicle, June 2004
  
• "My Hudson Bay fur trade ancestors," Your Family Tree, April 2004
  
• "What to do when you're stuck," Family Chronicle, April 2004
  
• "Making the most of resources in your ancestor's home town," Family Chronicle, February 2004
  
• "Tracing your Canadian ancestry," Your Family Tree, Christmas 2003
  
• "Genealogical gems in land records," Family Chronicle, December 2003
  
• "Genealogy on a Shoestring," Family Chronicle, July/August 2003
  
• "10 ways to locate your ancestor's birthplace," Family Chronicle, March/April 2003
  

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