Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections
07 September 2009
Traditional music in England
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The British Library has has made 28,000 rare recordings available free online. The collection focuses on both traditional English music and...
06 September 2009
St Andrews College Review
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School yearbooks are a valued resource for the family historian. They give context, not just names. St. Andrew’s College, a 110 year old al...
05 September 2009
Forgeries in the archives
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This TNA podcast from June David Thomas talks about a variety of forgers, "the hard boiled, sad, delusional and violent." The tim...
04 September 2009
UK memorials transcribed
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Enter a church in the UK and you see rolls of honour memorializing local fallen heroes and plaques to ancient, and sometimes not so ancient,...
03 September 2009
Operation Pied Piper
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UK newspapers are remembering the evacuation of nearly 1.5 million people, over half school children, from vulnerable (evacuation) areas, no...
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02 September 2009
Find My Past adds 1881 census images for England and Wales
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Find My Past have added a full set of images for the 1881 England and Wales census, over 1.25 million images for nearly 29 million individua...
Ontario, Canada Marriage Registers by Clergy, 1896-1948
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Ancestry has made available a collection of 18 volumes of marriage registers compiled by the clergy under the Ontario Registration Act of 18...
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01 September 2009
Ontario Parliament Fire
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Today, 1 September 2009, marks the centennial of a fire at the Ontario Legislature, then called Parliament. While it was at first thought th...
31 August 2009
The Drouin Collection
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Dick Eastman has an article on legal action over Ancestry's indexing of the Drouin Collection.
RIP Simon Dee 1935-2009
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Teens in Britain in the early 1960s recall with fondness the arrival of pirate radio in the form of Radio Caroline which freed the reigns of...
US' bestselling genealogy books
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Here, to round off the bestselling series, are the bestselling books in the US on genealogy research from ancestry.com 1. The E...
30 August 2009
1911 Ireland census now complete online
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All thirty-two counties for the 1911 census of Ireland are now available at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ Corrections and improvements wil...
29 August 2009
Wolfram|Alpha does historic weather
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I recall as a kid holding my brother when he was one day old. Perhaps as a future meteorologist it's significant that something else has...
28 August 2009
Your GRO certificate cost
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Curious about the cost of your GRO birth, marriage and death certificates? The following is based on a response to a Freedom of Information ...
27 August 2009
Global Genealogy's top ten bestselling books
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Following on the list of top ten bestselling Canadian genealogy books from amazon.ca posted a couple of days ago, here, courtesy of Rick Rob...
26 August 2009
Britain's bestselling genealogy books
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Following on yesterday's listing for Canada, here, courtesy of amazon.co.uk are the UK's bestselling genealogy books 1. "Who Do...
25 August 2009
Canada's bestselling genealogy books
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As of 24 August 2009, here are the bestselling non-fiction books found by searching "Genealogy" at www.amazon.ca/. Books not relev...
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24 August 2009
Ancestry adds British Army WW2 Roll of Honour and POW databases
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Two databases from WW2, previously published on CD from Naval & Military Press, are newly available to Ancestry World Deluxe and ancestr...
TNA podcast: The final balance: researching families and wealth in the 19th century using the death duty records
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The latest TNA podcast delves into the records associated with four types of tax that may have become payable in England and Wales on death...
High costs for Scots tracing ancestors online
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According to an article in the Glasgow Herald " The cost of using online genealogy websites has come under scrutiny after it emerged th...
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