My great-grandfather, George Arthur Walsh (1873-1943), was particularly quiet about his family. When he died, my grandfather was just seven, and it was assumed he had no living relatives. However, when I began my genealogical research, I discovered that he was the..

Ann Martin Appleby and Alexander Appleby: rightful heirs?

When I began looking for documents to fill in details about my New Brunswick ancestors, I had never heard of the DeGrace family fortune. Imagine my surprise when I discovered a will made by the adoptive..

My great-grandmother Kathleen never spoke much about her childhood, but she always wondered what happened to her little brother Joe.

When I began researching my family history, I initially focused very little time on the Dunn family. The Dunn line had already been almost completely traced back to Ireland by cousins of my grandmother, and I had been given numerous notes and write-ups from over the..

The story of Thomas Dalton is a tragic one, and one that had been forgotten for many years, until a DNA match brought the truth of his brief life to light. I stumbled across the Dalton family years ago when investigating the origins of my own 2^nd great-grandmother Mary..