Routes to Roots

By Ryan Taylor

Routes to Roots: A Collection of 'Tracing Your Roots" Columns from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record 1993-1997 is a compilation of Ryan Taylor's published articles from his newspaper column on genealogical topics. Ryan was a prominent Canadian genealogist who shared his considerable knowledge in print, radio, television and personal appearances.

Routes to Roots is an educational and entertaining read that shares many sound research ideas from the vast experience of Mr. Taylor.

Topics include:

• Family Stories Worth Recording
• Writing And Using Genealogical Queries
• National Archives of Canada
• Women's Institute Tweedsmuir Histories
• Department of Agriculture Records/age on census
• Census-assessment Records
• Religious Newspapers
• What Church Records To Look At
• Mary Bond's Canadian Directories Book
• Floreen Carter's Place Names of Ontario
• Using Maps and Atlases
• Waterloo County Churches: A Research Guide By Rosemary Ambose (review)
• Archives of Ontario
• Preparing for Overseas Trips
• Adoptees Search For Birth Parents
• Death Cards
• Patronymics and Family Nicknames
• Anglican Record
• Scotland
• Telephone Directories
• Divorce Records In Canada
• Narrative In Family Histories
• Two Brothers With The Same Birthdate
• Alsace
• National Service census, 1940/Poles in Wilno
• Civil Service List/Cause of Death
• Irish Church Records ( book review)
• Jail Registers In Ontario
• Methodist Episcopal baptisms In Niagara & Scheswig-Holstien
• Canadian Railway Records ( book review)
• Photo Works ( photos on disk)
• Basic handbooks for English Research
• Zachary Cloutier, father of all French Canadians
• Peel County
• Advice for Beginners From GENEASSIST magazine
• The Irish Home And Abroad ( magazine review)
• The Family Historian's Enquire Within (book review)
• A Family Historian's guide to illness and death (book review)
• Church of Brethern Records
• University of Guelph Scottish Collection
• Marsh Collection, Amherstburg
• Maritime History Archive, Memorial University
• Loiselle Index (marriages)
• Finding a birth mother in Canada
• National Library on the Internet
• Upper Canada District Marriage Registers
• A lecture on writing family booklets
• Finding cousins overseas
• BurMore (newspaper index publishers)
• Lifetime expectancies of photographs
• How heavy, how much, how long (book review)
• Ephraim Weber's Letters Home (book review)
• Jewish Genealogy with Gary Mokotoff
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Genealogy in Ontario, Here Be Dragons! (book review)
• State Library of Michigan
• Oxford Companion to local and family history ( book review)
• One record is wrong, but which one?
• Erie Canal
• Glenbow Museum and Archive, Calgary
• Reading The census
• Donald Walker's Discoveries in Tillsonburg
• Christmas Column, Martha Barnhart's Collection
• Baptismal Records
• Saskatchewan Resident's Records
• Society of Genealogists, London
• English Genealogy Bookshop
• Edmonton City Archives
• Grey County Marriages (book review)
• Medical Records at the Archives of Ontario

About the author

Ryan Taylor was a prominent Canadian genealogist whose interest began in the 1960s. He became active in the Ontario Genealogical Society in the 1980s, serving in leadership and editorial roles. He was also the founding editor of the Canadian Federation of Genealogical and Family History Societies' newsletter and wrote a genealogy column for The Record in Kitchener-Waterloo. His weekly column in the online magazine The Global Gazette was followed world-wide 1998-2006.   Ryan lectured widely across Canada and the U.S., focusing on British and Ontario genealogy. He was on the faculty of the National Institute of Genealogical Studies and founded the oral history program at the Kitchener library. He co-hosted the TV show Branching Out and was a panelist on Ancestors in the Attic. He passed away unexpectedly in 2006.

Details:

153 pages
5.5 x 8.5"
Softcover - perfect bound paperback
Index
Subject List
Published By Global Heritage Press, Milton, 1997
ISBN 0-9682524-0-0