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The Olive Tree Genealogy has been given permission to publish online a wonderful work that will be of great benefit to genealogists seeking their roots in New York state.

Understanding the geographical changes in Ontario’s borders and the name changes for Ontario is essential for anyone researching in Ontario. For instance Ontario in the course of its settlement from 1783 on, has been called the Western part of the Montreal District of the Colony of Quebec, Upper Canada, and Canada West.

 © Barbara A. Brown
Facts, evidence, hearsay. Credibility, assumptions, documentation, citations. Primary sources, conclusions, proof. There are a number of publications, many available via the Internet, which instruct you how to be a Responsible Genealogist. Most of them miss the salient point.
To be a Responsible Genealogist requires more than a copy of William Strunk’s "Elements […]

Huguenots and Walloons were Protestants who fled from religious persecution to America. Huguenots came from France, the Walloons from Belgium. Many Americans and Canadians can trace their roots to these brave settlers who fled to America in the 17th Century. The first Huguenot refugees went to Prussia, the German Palatinate and then to America.

As early as 1653, New York City (formerly called New Amsterdam) recognized that it needed to care for the city’s minor children, widows, and orphans. There were many orphanages and orphan asylums in the 19th century. Many of these institutions were founded in New York City to care for destitute children of immigrants from Ireland and Russia, Germany and other eastern European countries.