2020 is almost done and most of us won't be sorry to see it end. Before this year enters the history books, I'd like to post a review of this year's posts which you may find useful. I know I appreciate the snapshot of the subjects covered when I go back to find out what I've researched on a subject for my other writing projects.
My first story of 2020, which actually started with one post in 2019, was about John McNeil, a soldier on the British side in the American War of Independence who was given land in Nova Scotia. Unlike many of his fellows, he took up the land he was given and put down roots in Antigonish after first settling in Pictou. This story and offshoots from it dominated my posts until mid-April.
I moved on to Australian lines with my next posts, which started with letters and a travel diary from a 1954 trip taken by H.S. Chambers and his wife, May. His mother had been born a Chubb and it was her sister, Henrietta and husband, William McKay, a soldier, who I followed on a convoluted trail that led from Evershot, Dorset to Malta to India and eventually to Australia. I summed up my Australian search to date with a post on October 31.
November began with posts about a new focus, this time on the Chambers family. Migration also loomed large on this line and I'm currently researching and writing about H.S. Chambers' immigration to Canada in the early 1900s, both for the blog and for another project I'm working on.
DNA posts were infrequent in 2020, the first and only article appearing on August 15. I haven't been doing much with DNA this year and really should get back on track.
Images:
By Scan by NYPL - https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a20151f8-d3cf-5c25-e040-e00a18066189, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46447639
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