tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37074506176539769702024-03-05T12:30:09.378-05:00Brenda Dougall Merriman~ BALTICS and CELTICS ~
See also the CAMELDABBLE TRAVELBABBLE blog (camelchaser.blogspot.com) and crime novel reviews at MOSTLYCRIMEFICTION.blogspot.comBDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.comBlogger388125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-54608566050202852802022-11-22T10:02:00.000-05:002022-11-22T10:02:52.258-05:00Goodwin Fans, Rejoice!
Nathan Dylan Goodwin. The Sawtooth Slayer.
Self-published, 2022. Available at the author's website,
nathandylangoodwin.com and Amazon.com.
This is the second
in Goodwin's Venator series, following The Chester Creek Murders.
I'd recommend reading the first one beforehand since there is some
overlap. Maddie is the owner of Venator, an investigative genetic
genealogy company. Her enterprisingBDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-40201420182222519132021-02-22T12:16:00.003-05:002021-02-22T18:40:18.451-05:00Another Win for Goodwin!
Nathan Dylan Goodwin. The Chester Creek Murders.
Self-published, nathandylangoodwin.com, 2021. Also available on
Amazon.com.Goodwin’s opus
grows by leaps and bounds—he’s
introducing Venator, a
Salt Lake City company that applies genetic genealogy techniques
to criminal cold cases.
Madison “Maddie”
Scott-Barnhart is the
company’s hands-on
founder, employing
a small, dedicated team. Police
BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-40205794358343352022020-03-26T21:44:00.000-05:002020-03-26T21:47:51.180-05:00Morton's Back!
Nathan Dylan Goodwin. The
Sterling Affair. 2019. Available through nathandylangoodwin.com
or Amazon.
This
latest novel in the Morton Farrier, Forensic Genealogist series, is a
humdinger. Clarissa Duggan hires Morton to discover why a recently
deceased (suicide by defenestration) old stranger was masquerading as
her brother Maurice; her true brother had died at the age of sixteen.
Clarissa BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-12569385610150390482019-11-07T13:33:00.002-05:002021-10-30T12:06:15.014-05:00A Misplaced Grandmother
Not the person. The place! Now to
correct the record. A tale of joy, misery, and redemption.
Five
years ago I wrote about a bucket list visit ‒ St Petersburg. My
affinity for this storied Russian city comes from my grandmother
Marija's time working there at the turn of the nineteenth century, up
until about 1908. Marija was a trained seamstress.
A land tour in 2006 had us lodged
for a BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-13084968987167824292019-01-20T11:48:00.000-05:002019-06-04T19:33:04.193-05:00One Line of Coll McFadyens
Isle of Coll
Question:
Is it possible to reconstruct ancestry based solely on Scottish
naming patterns and reported patronymics?
Answer:
No matter how long I stare at the GPS, not even in the ballpark.
Nevertheless.
What one can do is construct hypotheses based on sparse
sources. That may be all one can do. Ever. Highland ancestry
was long based on oral tradition until events of the BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-61757136294145924342018-11-11T22:33:00.000-05:002018-11-11T22:34:29.036-05:00RemembranceBDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-65195911325707878532018-10-24T11:14:00.000-05:002018-10-24T11:14:01.779-05:00Fatigue
It's not blogging
fatigue. It's more like research fatigue. With other interests taking
precedence. Make that other preoccupations.
Then Scotland's
People informed me that my credits were about to expire. Stir
yourself, I said. Where did those Frasers and McIntyres and McKenzies
and Dougalls come from?
Some time ago I hit
my personal brick wall with the wild explosion and BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-70999914266089653482018-06-12T21:35:00.001-05:002018-06-12T21:35:33.921-05:00Proposed DNA Standards in Genealogical Research
Here
are Standards proposed for DNA evidence as a research component with
reference to Genealogy Standards, 50th
Anniversary Edition (2014),
published by the Board for Certification of Genealogists. Having a
copy of Genealogy Standards at hand would be very useful for reviewing the items!
The
BCG Genetic Genealogy Standards Committee invites public comments on
the following draft (which BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-62809290526152100312018-06-06T18:53:00.000-05:002018-06-06T18:53:15.574-05:00Book: The Wicked Trade
Nathan
Dylan Goodwin. The Wicked Trade. Self-published, 2018.
Goodwin
scores again in the seventh of his Morton Farrier, Forensic
Genealogist series. Possibly his most interesting case yet begins
with Arthur Fothergill who wants to learn more about a formative
period in the life of his great-grandmother Ann Fothergill. Even more
important, who fathered her son? Arthur knows from family papers BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-23017136857303652792018-05-18T21:01:00.000-05:002018-05-18T21:01:12.738-05:00Egremont's Countess
2018
—
Year of Women's Empowerment.
We are not quite there
yet after decades of struggle and consciousness-raising. With
the passage of years perhaps we
take some salutary, institutionalized changes for granted
... think
voting,
maternity
leave. All the more reason to take note of women's achievements,
women who lived in the shadows of even
more constricting social
conditions.
Elizabeth BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-3037019806407285372018-03-24T09:13:00.001-05:002018-03-24T09:13:40.181-05:00Conference Highlight of the Year!
This year the annual
conference of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) is being held in
one of my favourite places: Guelph! May 31st to June 3rd.
Watch for it
Guelph —
home of the notable
University of Guelph
(venue for the conference)
with the
university's renowned
Scottish Studies
Department;
McLaughlin Library; the
Arboretum; the Ontario
Agricultural College; and
the Ontario BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-64647796193643238932018-03-19T20:33:00.002-05:002018-03-19T20:33:48.805-05:00CAMELOGUEA cross-post from camelchaser.ca, not exactly by overwhelming demand, but just to say
Second edition of CAMELOGUE now
available!
Created at and for
sale on Blurb.com, $15.00 Canadian; the USD equivalent is less.
http://www.blurb.com/b/8605379-camelogue
Now 110 pages,
stripped of "fillers" in the first edition. Approximately
half the book consists of edited past adventures; the rest BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-76982027264751295012018-02-07T18:23:00.000-05:002018-02-07T18:25:59.411-05:00A Journal That Educates
The National
Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ) is likely the most
prestigious journal in North America. Published by the society based
in Washington, DC —
yes, it's American-produced
—
it serves as a model for learning and writing
(www.ngs.org).
Both readers and writers benefit from
the published results.
"The
Q" is more than worth the price of membership,
available in print or electronic BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-89612842881591365072018-01-14T11:29:00.000-05:002018-01-14T11:29:45.165-05:00Conference Freebies
Frivolous? Yes, but – bags. Family historians have bags.
Bags are the most
popular handout at genealogical conferences. Why not? We need bags to
haul not only the stuff we bring with us to the conference but also
the growing masses —
paper, books, gadgets, snacks —
we collect from daily visits to the vendors.
Pens are good. Pens
are also common. But BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-52343453884931899572017-11-02T10:24:00.000-05:002017-11-02T10:24:02.561-05:00The Petworth Emigration Story
The collaborative
historical-genealogical study known as the
Petworth Emigration Project began almost thirty years ago; it is
still very much alive under the sponsorship of the Jackman
Foundation.
What is it? ... in essence, the identification and
background of English families that came to Upper Canada by means of
an assisted emigration plan in the 1830s. The Petworth Emigration
BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-47745561084927305742017-10-15T21:08:00.000-05:002017-10-15T21:08:02.626-05:00A BCG Honour
A
lovely honour came my way. Retired from client research as I am, and
having put four personal family histories more or less adequately to paper, I feel a few degrees removed from mainstream genealogy.
Nonetheless, the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) has
awarded me Emeritus status upon my retirement from the
mandatory evaluation system. Not only was it a surprise, it is an
honour BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-33376384901175244332017-09-07T10:29:00.000-05:002017-09-07T10:29:48.314-05:00Sharing the Love
At a recent
genealogy conference I met a distant Facebook friend for the first
time. The person was aware of this, my blog, and had visited it more
than once.
I was asked:
"Brenda, why
don't you consider speaking engagements? You should give talks at
these conferences."
As if the idea were
new. The tone was encouraging.
After a momentary
blink I realized that the average blog visitorBDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-19377962034293693462017-08-18T07:44:00.000-05:002017-08-18T07:44:40.475-05:00Second World War Flight Training Schools
More
fascination with Canada's participation in the British Commonwealth
Air Training Plan (BCATP). In my previous lengthy post (see post
below this one), I show how to access the daily reports for the
Elementary Flight Training Schools (EFTS). I also mention that names
are scattered throughout the reports for EFTS No. 2 at Thunder Bay.
We are reminded that the city was formerly the friendly BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-11170398292232141782017-07-20T07:45:00.000-05:002017-07-20T07:51:40.216-05:00Aerodrome of Democracy
"Aerodrome
of Democracy" ... U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous
description of Canada's massive contribution to Second World War
aviation. Over 50,000 pilots were among 130,000 air crew trained in
this country.[1]
Schools
were set up to train not only pilots but also navigators, mechanics,
wireless operators, gunners, and so on. Thousands of young Brits,
Canadians, and even some BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-35858065381152996592017-06-20T21:57:00.000-05:002017-06-21T20:52:09.983-05:00Ottawa. June. Been There, Done That.
Subtitle:
Notes from a Dinosaur
After
a long winter and cool spring, Ottawa in June was thankfully warm for
the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) conference. I have been
attending OGS Conferences since 1974: the faces change, the
technology changes, and sometimes the program emphasis changes, but
the basic Ontario sessions remain, as they should. Torn tendons and
other medical ailments doBDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-35469020771085274312017-05-18T08:52:00.003-05:002017-05-18T08:52:56.967-05:00Ottawa. June. What Could be Better?
The annual genealogy love fest in the
Ontario part of the world fast approaches. The Ontario Genealogical
Society (OGS) is gathering in Ottawa June 15-19 ―
where else to be for the 150th anniversary of Canada's
confederation?! For newbies and advanced family historians alike, the
Conference at Algonquin College promises an exciting agenda of
research assistance, workshops, lectures, BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-78144206486732298962017-05-01T20:11:00.000-05:002017-05-01T20:11:41.642-05:00Book: The Missing Man
Nathan Dylan Goodwin. The Missing
Man. UK: Self-published,* 2017.
Forcing yourself away from your sticky,
stubborn, intensive family history research, what could be better
than curling up with Nathan Goodwin and Morton Farrier? Ahhh. One is
the creature of the other: Morton has become well established as a
fictional forensic genealogist in England. Author Goodwin can be
assured his man BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-44051298624539741572017-04-11T18:21:00.000-05:002017-04-11T18:25:44.281-05:00~ Terry ~
Not long before Christmas my dear
friend Terry Punch wrote me a message that was a far cry from the
genealogical comments we regularly shared. And the message was a bit
weak in the boisterous humour we normally exchanged. He told me he
was dying.
And so it came to pass today, April
11th. To the sorrow of so many who benefited from his extensive
historical and genealogical knowledge of BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-32991443113247841492017-04-05T11:33:00.000-05:002017-04-06T07:55:14.978-05:00TARTAN Day 2017
Prepare to wear it!!
According to the Sons of Scotland Pipe
Band, 15%
of Canadians claim Scottish heritage (with the Irish claiming a close
14%). http://www.sospb.com/tartan-day-celebrations.html
April 6th marks Scotland's Declaration of Arbroath in 1320. It was
the great statement sent to the Pope of Scotland's national
independence, signed by the nobility and ranking clergy. TheBDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3707450617653976970.post-36655757938084910772017-03-30T18:12:00.000-05:002017-03-30T18:12:20.960-05:00Ten Years Blogging
Like some long-term bloggers, I
experience a posting slowdown ―
not for lack of subject matter but the focus of interest shifts back and forth. It's quite a few years since I retired from researching for
clients. In that time I have tackled a great deal of personal family
research. The family projects never end. And my filing cabinets,
physical and mental, contain plenty of genealogical BDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com4