Category: Manitoba
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Neals in Canada – photos
A selection of old photos from family albums. Most are of Robert (Bob) Neal and family at or near Oak River, Manitoba, Canada. Photo Gallery Click on the thumbnail images to see a larger version – do return to this page, with your browser back button, to add any comments. King and I – Harry…
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A better view of the Canadian Neals
A few old photographs have thrown a whole lot of new light onto the great aunt and uncle who separately left Norwich for the relative wilds of Canada. Gayle, a second cousin once removed and living in that country, has been looking into her family history for longer than me and has got a collection…
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Making the news makes family history
This post was going to be about bringing together disparate sources to build a picture, but has evolved into one on the increasing availability and usefulness of newspaper archives. The British Newspaper Archive website went live late 2011, but while I have yet to use this, cuttings are increasingly adding to the data available. And…
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Alice arrives in Canada
A nice little update to a previous article about great aunt Alice Neal – Turning an absence into a presence – which traced her to Canada. I have now located her in the passenger lists arriving in Canada. It’s a bit of an odd record, as a form has been adapted slightly. But there’s little…
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Turning an absence into a presence
Tracing Alice Neal’s family No old photos on today’s item. In fact a photo absence is where it starts. Alice Neal was the only one of the 11 children of Robert Smith Neal and Ellen Elizabeth Watts not to appear in the 1902 family photograph featuring elsewhere on Cutlock and Co. But the very helpful…
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Neals in Canada – the photo gallery
An improved Neals in Canada photo web page has been created (December 2012) – better thumbnails and more photos to be added. » »