Ottawa Valley Irish is a website maintained by M.C. Moran.
It's one-half database, containing his Irish and French immigrant family tree,
and one,half guide to doing Irish genealogy in Ottawa and wider Canada. The
introduction outlines that:
This website covers
the family histories of a number of Irish and French Canadian families in the
Ottawa Valley area, including the Morans of Huntley township; the Laheys and
Killeens of March township; the McGlades of Perth; the McCarthys of Kitley
township; and the Derouins of Otter Lake.
It also offers tips
and tricks for the pursuit of Irish and Canadian genealogy: how to trace your
Irish ancestry through Canadian sources; how to search the census records and
census substitutes; how to decipher, translate, and interpret the Catholic
parish records; and more.[1]
The second paragraph of the introduction is achieved through
Moran's blog posts. Interesting examples are highlighted from various records,
such as this example of a marriage blessing. Many Catholic records in Canada were written in French, so it is
very useful to see Moran's translation of these documents.
The 'resources' section contains links to websites and institutions, primarily in Canada,
but also in Ireland, the U.S, France, and the United Kingdom. There is also a
number of useful articles in the 'reading' section, in
particular those about the Catholic Church in Canada.
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