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A genealogical journey through poverty, war and love

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“Already the authors of a well-received family memoir, sisters Kasaboski and den Hartog meet this challenge head-on. … Throughout, the prose is graceful, the research meticulous.” Canada’s History Magazine

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Posts about way back when

Flu Pandemic 1918: Smiles are contagious
Flu Pandemic 1918: “I love to get your letters so much…”
Flu Pandemic 1918: “trying times test us”
Flu Pandemic 1918: “everyone was being very careful”
Flu Pandemic 1918: country air and bicycle cures
Jennie and George and Grace: Down a Rabbit Hole
“Top of your Christmas wish list”
Part 3: Mysteries and mystranscriptions, a genealogical case study
Perth Avenue, Toronto, in WW1
Part 2: Home children Walter and Maria, a genealogical case study

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The elusive Ellen, discovered in the Stone Asylum casebook at the London Metropolitan Archives (City of London). This image appears with their permission.