Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has announced the launch of a new online database, Second World War Service Files: Canadian Armed Forces W...

Several years ago TNA announced their aim is to provide "almost all that customers want online, either through access to pre-digitised ...

As we enter September, with the BIFHSGO conference starting in 18 days, I was interested to see a short article "What’s in It for Me?...

Databases with information extracted from English and Welsh birth and christening records (1530-1906) and marriage records (1538-1940) previ...

Registers and lists of University of London students are now online . Available are searchable pdfs for: Students up to (and including) 31 M...

One of my regular stops is the list of new items posted by Ancestry. Most often these are digitized books. Those with United Empire Loyalist...

The following from Michael Geist's blog . I can hardly wait for the opportunity to express my view on this at the ballot box! "Most...

The FreeBMD Database was updated on Thursday 14 August 2008 and contains 154,016,737 distinct records (198,415,308 total records). Don'...

The Federation of Family History Societies has posted a response, hardly news to those who have followed the issue, from the British Governm...

Historian, genealogist, researcher ... whatever the reason you use the services of Library and Archives Canada; whether you use those servic...

Queen Elizabeth, mother of the present Queen Elizabeth II, arranged to have a decorative letter of thanks sent to people who hosted British ...

My high speed connection is down and I'm reliving the olden days of dial-up. Expet light blogging until its fixed. In the meantime I...

The anticipation is building for August 24, St Bartholomew's Day. Bartholomew's Fair was celebrated for centuries in London, an impo...

The following press release, interesting in its own right, is also notable for being datelined CHICAGO. The Generations Network corporate we...

Did you hear the one about the Englishman, Irishman and Dutchman who went into a pub ... no, hold that ... it's so yesterday. The new ve...

Do you like this posting? Tell me now! We had a meeting of the conference planning group for the BIFHSGO conference last Saturday at which ...

On May 22 I posted about forthcoming genealogy books, according to Amazon. Here's an update. The Official Guide to Ancestry.com (Paperb...

Here's more news about the newly released 1916 census now that I've had a chance to look at a sample. First the really good news. Th...

According to CBC TV audience relations the network has no plans to air programming relating to Canadian history in the coming months. The ex...

Exactly a century ago the Toronto Globe carried an article on page 2 on the election of officers to the Sons of England Benefit Society Supr...