Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

In the last post I looked at the trend in prices for Family Tree DNA’s Y-DNA tests since they entered the market in mid 2000. Here's ano...

Sadly, the program this week slipped back to where it started. The first story concerned a query as to whether a Canadian's McAdam ances...

Perhaps you've seen news about DNA breakthroughs, technologies that mean analysis of what previously took the dedicated effort of major ...

Following up on yesterday's posting on how many Y-DNA markers to test in exploring your genealogy, the next question newbies ask is whic...

At the meeting of the BIFHSGO DNA group last Saturday we had ten people, a mix of folks who had experience with a test and those considering...

A meeting of folks interested in genetic genealogy is being held at 10 am tomorrow, Saturday 25 November, in room 154 at Library and Archive...

I enjoyed this week's episode, despite the continued frenetic activity of the host. Am I the only one who finds his attitude toward the ...

According to The Genealogy Blog Finder there are 411 genealogy blogs in their collection. This is one of them. Of the other 410, in more th...

Are you finding online census images and other original genealogy record images increasingly difficult to read? I am, so I've taken to u...

Want to know how common, or uncommon, your name is? Try this extract of an Office of National Statistics database containing a list of surn...

An item here earlier in the week showed that the number of monthly postings on the Rootsweb DNA list is increasing, while those for some ot...

To the list of misleading if not simply incorrect statements perpetrated by this series we can add another. The senior genealogist claimed ...

Back in June I posted about a declining trend for interest in genealogy as evidenced by the results of a Google Trends search on "gene...

Much of the British documentation on WW1 soldiers was destroyed, but medal cards survived. You can already download copies of the front of...

The first segment of this episode was the most interesting genealogy. A WW1 military tag, including the letters “...OSTER”, number114816 and...

If you're looking online for illustrations for your family history there are plenty of places to go. I start with Flickr, Google Images ...

Do your family history studies find you researching in places you never imagined they would lead? If our names truly reflected the diversit...

Between 1869 and the 1930 more than 100,000 young immigrants from the UK travelled to Canada under programs operated by various philanthropi...

Since 1829 Cambridge and Oxford Universities have been battling in a boat race. Since 1845 the venue for this 16- 20 minute aquatic sprint, ...

Have you seen the ad on TV: a man is walking along with his GPS enabled cellphone, a friend takes it from his hand and he freezes not knowin...