Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

I'm celebrating. Yesterday this blog passed half a million page-loads. Thanks to all who have visited.

It's taken a while but Ancestry announces they have the 1911 census for England, as well as Wales, the Isle of Man and Channel Islands, ...

"It’s the classic situation. You’re celebrating a friend’s birthday and you’ve been asked to find the old Year Book and some pictures...

The December BIHSGO  Great Moments in Genealogy session is always a favourite. This time the topics and speakers are: How I Found ...

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson had no presents for the heritage community this season. He marginalized the contributions of local historians by bul...

I was surprised to read in the My Heritage blog that 90% of people don't use the Ctrl-F command to find items on a web page. It's s...

Unfortunately the Quebec Family History Society and BIFHSGO meetings are on the same day, next Saturday 10 December, so I won't be in Be...

The House of Commons Canadian Heritage Committee met on Tuesday morning continuing with the early stages of its study of Canada’s 150th anni...

Once again this year here, from Sandra Roberts of Global Genealogy , is the company list of bestsellers, books you might want to consider a...

A 15 part series of programs under the title "The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post Office" is underway on BBC Ra...

Online registration is now open for the OGS conference 2012 , click  here .

The FreeBMD Database was last updated on Sun 4 Dec 2011 and currently contains 209,323,684 distinct records (265,436,329 total records). ...

You've got to love the "Can Do" approach of the Internet Archives, as evident in this brief summary of a talk given on 20 Nov...

On Tuesday December 6, 2011 The Jewish Genealogical Society of Ottawa will host a presentation by Jay Sage explaining the basics of human g...

Shopping for a gift for a genealogist? Looking for ideas on hints to drop? Here's my 2011 list of seasonal gifts. For those who will n...

An amusing item in the BBC online magazine "Headlines from 1811: Riots, cuts and a snake-eating cow" illustrates how our problems ...

From the day long conference on the census held at TNA   on Saturday 1 October 2011 comes this talk by university geographer Humphrey Southa...

The following is from the OPL website: The Ottawa Public Library is asking Ottawans to contribute to its planning. You are invited to compl...

ACOM, Ancestry.com's stock, has had a rough year. From a high near $45 at the beginning of August the price settled below $30 in mid-S...

Three new databases, all transcriptions or indexes without original images,  appeared at Find My Past for the end of the month. The 1861 c...