Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

Postings here are still suspended while I recover from Christmas, a bout with a cold, and catching up with reading the books received. One b...

Good news. According to an announcement on their web site , The National Archives is developing an online 1911 census service, covering most...

The following is the text of a message sent from John Heney, President of the Friends of the City of Ottawa Archives to the Mayor and City C...

At the BIFHSGO monthly meeting on Saturday well over 100 enthusiastic members heard five presentations at the annual Great Moments in Geneal...

After several years in the same location with the same format the Society of Genealogists' in the UK is breaking the mold with their ann...

Typos (and grammatical errors) are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distract...

A few months ago, on a Skypecast, Dick Eastman expressed skepticism about the benefits of DNA for genealogy. Later on his blog he reviewed ...

Tomorrow, Saturday 9 December, the BIFHSGO monthly meeting is a perennial favourite. Members will recount thrilling breakthoughs, unusual tw...

One of the advantages of being on the Board of BIFHSGO is getting the quarterly chronicle early. It's distributed at the Monday evening ...

I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think. Of course you are my bright little star, I've miles And miles...

Now indexed and searchable, the 1851 and 1861 census transcripts are the latest additions to ancestry.co.uk. However, images of the original...

Last Saturday, 2 December, there was a memorial service for well know Canadian genealogist Ryan Taylor. A large number of family, friends an...

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 ...