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Grace Howard
Grace Howard ✭
September 28, 2022 in Suggest an Idea

There is very little about family history in Canada.

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  • Grace Howard
    Grace Howard ✭
    September 29, 2022

    My family came to Canada from Ireland in the 1830's Thomas McPeak.


    Can't find anything.

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  • genthusiast
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    September 29, 2022 edited September 29, 2022

    Here is a Search that may have some possibilities for Thomas McPeak in the Family Tree:

    https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/results?q.birthLikeDate.from=1800&q.birthLikeDate.to=1830&q.birthLikePlace=Ireland&q.givenName=Thomas&q.residenceDate.from=1830&q.residenceDate.to=1850&q.residencePlace=Canada&q.surname=McPeak

    and another slightly different search:

    https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=20&q.birthLikeDate.from=1800&q.birthLikeDate.to=1830&q.birthLikePlace=Ireland&q.givenName=Thomas&q.residenceDate.from=1830&q.residenceDate.to=1850&q.residencePlace=Canada&q.residencePlace.exact=on&q.surname=McPeak


    Are you looking to find him in the Family Tree or are you looking to see if there is some history about Irish immigrants to Canada in 19th century?

    Here is a search in FamilySearch Books for Irish immigrant Canada :

    https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/?navigation=&perpage=&page=1&sort=_score&search=Irish+immigrant+Canada&fulltext=1&bookmarks=0#title

    You might get more specialized research help here in Community by joining the Canada group:

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/17-canada-events-research


    Keep searching and you're bound to find something.

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  • Judy Crook_1
    Judy Crook_1 ✭✭
    October 2, 2022

    In my opinion, Canadian resources are extremely limited, especially for the earliest years. And then if your ancestors were French Canadian, you have the additional pleasure of trying to search in French. However, 112 sources are listed under search collections for Canada. I'd start with the family search wiki for Canada and also search collections https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/ You might also ask for a free research consultation under Family Search Help, or join Wikitree and seek help there. Someone recently posted birth and marriage information in Family Search for my Irish Canadian ancestors who happened, it turns out, to have been born and married in Quebec. I would not have considered looking there, especially since family genealogies had some of them born in New York, but it was extremely helpful because now I have my g-g-g-g-grandmother's actual maiden name instead of the fictional one handed down to me. So seek help and keep looking. Good luck.

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