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  • Adding a Voice to Your Family Tree

More Advanced Research

  • Ten Common Research Mistakes and How To Avoid Them
  • Kodachrome or Ferrotype?
  • How Long Is a Generation?
  • Memory As a Source
  • Plan the Attack
  • On the Record--Collecting Oral Histories
  • Finding Clues in Old Photographs

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  • The Differences between Ancestry’s Types of Family Trees
  • Did someone in your family work for the Canadian Government?
  • Top 5 Things… You May Not Know About Family History Records
  • Lying About Age Doesn’t Change Over the Years!
  • Cemetery in the Middle of the 401 & 427, Toronto?

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