Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

It seems like every second day LAC announces a new topical set of historic images becoming available on Flickr. On Wednesday it was 30 image...

Bloomberg.com has a speculative article quoting an unnamed source that  Ancestry.com is looking for a buyer, possibly Google or Facebook. ...

Jane Down is a compulsive organizer. She told me in an interview that nothing calms her like putting things in order. She is also a conserva...

Offered by the Quebec Family History Society Date:         Saturday, June 9, 2010 Time:         10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Location:     Q...

Announced at the closing session of the OGS conference was the release, within the next two months, of the 2012 annual update to Ontario civ...

The following is based on a brief conversation with Fabien Langelle, Director General, Service Branch of Library and Archives Canada The ...

The latest episode of The Family History Show was filmed at WDYTYA Live and features three interviews with leading genealogists Chris Paton...

A quick word of thanks to the folks who came to my presentation on newspapers at the OGS conference in Kingston. The large room, half the gy...

Announced on Friday evening at the opening session of the Ontario Genealogical Society conference was the award of the The Queen Elizabet...

The following is an announcement from the Guild of One Name Studies. In April 2012 the Guild of One-Name Studies published "Seven Pil...

If you tested with the Sorensen Molecular Genealogy Foundation there is important news in a post Status of the Sorenson Molecular, SMGF,gene...

The following is from Deceased Online Additional records for approximately 120,000 Scottish burials, mostly in rural burial grounds and c...

Following his disappointing appearance at the annual conference of the Canadian Library Association in Ottawa Daniel Caron spoke on Friday a...

National Archivist and Librarian Emeritus. Ian E Wilson presented the Richard J Houston Memorial Lecture to the opening plenary of the Ontar...

The following is from Find My Past ROYAL HOUSEHOLD STAFF RECORDS GO ONLINE FOR THE FIRST TIME Discover who served Britain’s Kings and Qu...

Illness kept me from going to the Canadian Library Association meeting in Ottawa. The following tweets are on LAC head honcho Daniel Caron...

Here are some benchmarks as of 31 May 2012. Comparable figures a month ago are shown in brackets. The higher the Alexa ranking the more pop...

Today, 1 June 2012, marks the centennial of the opening of Ottawa's landmark hotel, the Chateau Laurier, when Sir Wilfred Laurier signed...

When Ancestry can't secure the rights to a database they work out an arrangement to incorporate an index to the material on their site ...

The Library and Archives Canada blog have posted "The Top Five Things You Need to Know Before You Visit."   They are useful but n...