Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

The stereotype is the genealogist leafing through old dusty records in some backroom of an archives or church basement. But the dust just ma...

In today's web world with so much information at our fingertips keeping up is a struggle. Tools to help direct and filter the informati...

I usually enjoy making presentations and am looking forward to Tuesday June 3rd, at 7:30 pm, when I'm presenting " Family Secrets r...

Just posted on 24/7 Family History Circle blog is an item about custom prints of documents found through Ancestry that include the image, d...

Friday 30 May is the first day of the annual OGS conference, this year being held in London, Ontario. It's the biggest genealogy event i...

Don't judge a book by its cover, or an organization by its name. The Board for Certification of Genealogists exists "to foster publ...

The most common surnames in England and Wales are: Smith, Jones, Williams, Taylor, Brown, Davies, Evans, Thomas, Wilson, Johnson. That's...

Sherry Irvine, theme speakers at BIFHSGO's September conference and lead author of Finding Your Canadian Ancestors sent me the followin...

On Friday Microsoft announced they are winding down their digitization initiatives, including library scanning of rare books. The company...

In the following genealogical quotation each letter is uniquely coded. The code changes for each puzzle. Example: P P T X B P T Q A A R D V ...

The weather forecast for the weekend is promising so I'll likely be taking an afternoon trip to the Billings Estate Museum this Sunday,...

The following was posted on the Society of Genealogists web site . Those of us outside Britain have our own perspective on the service provi...

LAC is full of talented people. Earlier in the week a notice came in about a book being launched by an LAC historian which asks: Can a man b...

Planning on giving a new book to a genealogist in the coming months? Here`s a list of genealogy publications announced on Amazon . The re...

It's your public library. You pay for it. Why not use it? Here are some genealogy books newly listed in the Ottawa Public Library catalo...

LAC have posted the following notice Tuesday, May 20, 2008: Due to technical problems, our main building at 395 Wellington St. will be close...

Having recently resolved the long standing question of what happened to my g-g-grandfather, and now that I've obtained a photo of his ba...

The first products of a project to digitize historic Canada Gazettes are now online at the Library and Archives Canada website. Perhaps the ...

British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa founding member and first Director of Education and Queries, John (Jack) Moody passed...

It's a long weekend in Canada so here's a puzzle to solve, a quotation of genealogical significance. Decode it by replacing each let...