Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

The US version on the UK program Who Do You Think You Are? is scheduled to debut on NBC starting at 8pm next Friday, March 5th. The first p...

My Carmarthen-born father would be less than pleased that the day was half over before I posted St David's Day greetings.

Chris Paton has a new book , just announced on his Scottish Genealogy News and Events blog. Regular readers know I often find fodder for thi...

When Victoria became Queen in 1837, just 10 days before the start of civil registration, the annual death rate in England and Wales was 22 p...

Issue 92 of the National Archives Ancestors magazine is a special London themed issue. I've enjoyed many of the articles on the social h...

There are a couple of people who read this blog interested in their deeper roots -- more anthropology than genealogy. It's not for ever...

Galen Perras, University of Ottawa history professor, writes in a letter to the editor in today's Globe and Mail: "For years custom...

UK site deceasedonline.com has just added approximately 220,000 records for: Cambridge City, Gainsborough (in the county of Lincolnshire) ...

Findmypast.co.uk launched their London Collection last week. The content is mainly index information, some that's been on the site for a...

Do you have a Smith as an ancestor? If not maybe you're on the wrong planet. According to Wikipedia Smith is the most common surname in...

Ancestry.co.uk have added a data collection containing lists of aliens (non-British citizens) arriving in England between 1810 and 1869. ...

A quick reminder that the fast approaching early-bird deadline for registration for the OGS Ottawa Branch Gene-O-Rama 2010, this year being ...

Since the announcement of the availability of archives of the Ottawa Citizen online on Google in an article by Kelly Egan in the Citizen of ...

I have a small amount of Welsh ancestry but have never researched at the National Library of Wales. My father and his mother where born in ...

Construction on the archives is progressed noticeably in the two months since I was last there. The top image is taken from the corner of Wo...

A short presentation by Robert Daoust from Feb 4, 2010, who speaks on how the fashionable woman of the Second World War and post war era (so...

Ancestry.com grew healthily in 2009, beating analysts estimates, as announced in a press release on its annual report http://finance.yahoo.c...

News soures are reporting the death of John Henry Foster "Jack" Babcock the last known surviving veteran of the Canadian milit...

Brightsolid, parent of FindMyPast.co.uk has won regulatory approval to buy Friends Reunited and Genes Reunited, with the regulator seeing t...

Wednesday was a travel day for me, from London's Heathrow airport back to Ottawa. For the past few weeks I've been enjoying several...