Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

Saturday's BIFHSGO AGM and monthly meeting was another interesting and well attended session. Congratulations to Marg and Willis Burwe...

Compare the Wordle diagram for the just released Library and Archives Canada's 2011-2012 Report on Plans and Priorities with that...

From this BBC, this item about a team of archaeologists about to begin one of the largest investigations ever mounted on the battlefields of...

Did you know that anyone living with Parkinson's disease is eligible for a free DNA test through 23andMe as a contribution to a research...

The website at www.paperofrecord.com is active again. Click on the link and it forwards to  paperofrecord.hypernet.ca Information at hype...

With the wonderful resources of Library and Archives Canada almost at my doorstep I don't use them very much. I go to the building at 39...

Saturday 11 June 2011 at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington, Ottawa The meeting starts at 9am with the BIFHSGO Annual General...

Colleague Glenn Wright found an archival file at Library and Archives Canada, in RG37 Vol.82, titled Genealogical Societies. I was intereste...

You can now search and view a partial transcription of the England and Wales 1911 census at FamilySearch.org This uses the index from find...

With more than a million of book digitized and searchable The Internet Archive is a wonderful genealogical and historical resource. Judgin...

London Borough of Havering, burials numbered 1 to 37,778 for Romford Cemetery, dated 27 October 1871 to 15 August 1994, are now available at...

An interesting article appeared in the St John's Telegram about how the reconstruction of the head of a Canadian Expeditionary Force sol...

The British Library’s hard copy newspaper collections are scheduled to move from the current Colindale site to a planned Newspaper Storage...

Canadians, and others, have been visiting Mexico and returning via the USA for decades. Many of them are in an index of aliens, and some US ...

Monday's Ottawa Citizen includes an article about a statuette of hero of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Gen. James Wolfe, left at ...

Chris Paton at Scottish GENES reports on an addition to the Pharos Teaching and Tutoring ( www.pharostutors.com ) tutorial team. Celi...

Following on the survey here a couple of weeks ago about indexing volunteering Ancestry.ca staffer, and friend, Lesley Anderson drew my att...

From the start of the 20th century to the start of the Great War of approximately 2.85 million newcomers to Canada 1.18 million had English,...

A few years ago this blog had a  posting  on the defunct Canadian Federation of Genealogical and Family History Societies, with an informati...

Of interest for those with Cumberland roots, as of 1 June Carlisle has a new £8.2 million archives centre housing more than one million do...