Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

The farewell, April 2010, issue of Ancestors magazine arrived earlier in the week. Sad to see its demise. Apparently editor Simon Fowler is ...

Getting Them Back to England - What I did on my "Somers" Vacation by Jane Down When Jane started to search for her great-grandmot...

Yet another impressive map from MAPCO. It's been on the site for almost a year; amongst all the company's other London maps I seem ...

The sample is extracted from another excellent city map placed online by MAPCO at its own url http://dublin1798.com/ . It shows the Dublin ...

Bagpipes .. or maybe haggis! Pity the unfortunate wee bairns exposed to their deadly influence. The mind runs riot speculating on the cause ...

Another milestone. On Easter Monday ACC passed 200,000 pages loads. This follows a record month for visitors in March when, for the first t...

NBC announces WDYTYA has been extended to a second season, see www.nbc.com/news/2010/04/05/nbc-picks-up-three-freshman-series-as-the-marriag...

The following is an announcement from findmypast.co.uk "You can now find the complete Great Western Railway Shareholders Index 1835-193...

Sixteen years of the now defunct Ancestry magazine are available free on Google at http://books.google.com/books/serial/FTgEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1...

The following is an announcement from findmypast.co.uk "We have added a total of 204,501 new baptism and burial records for Wiltshire...

It's three months since I posted on trading in Ancestry.com stock. I heard a couple of comments that I was overdoing it, then a week ag...

Chances are in your family there’s a history of some disease, cancer, heart disease, asthma, Parkinson's. I've made the point before...

Now that Gene-O-Rama is becoming a memory for 2010 Ottawa and area genealogists look forward to the other major area annual conference, that...

Another newsletter from Lost Cousins packed with interesting and useful information came out on 1 April. Read it at http://lostcousins.com/n...

The construction site for the new Ottawa City Archives was buzzing on 31 March. This image, taken from the grass west of Woodroffe shows the...

Ancestry informs, reported here , that pop celebrities Madonna and Ellen DeGeneres are 11 th cousins. I'm impressed, not by the fact a...

On this day 125 years ago the officers and men of the Ottawa Company of Sharpshooters were on their way west to help suppress the Northwest ...

Just out online is THRIVING or SURVIVING? National Library of Scotland in 2030, by David Hunter & Karen Brown. It contains food for thou...

200 years of newspapers online and digitized is an achievement. The Swiss daily Le Journal de Genève "first came out on the 6th January...

The Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogy Group is hosting the OGS Region VIII Annual General Meeting & Family History Fair, from 9 am to 4 pm a...