Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

The Ontario Genealogical Society is exploring interest in indexing Ontario's Township Papers described by the Archives of Ontario as ...

A series of radio programs from RTE1 on The Great Famine which struck Ireland in the middle of the 19th century, the biggest social catastro...

A nice start to the year in making Canadian records available online; 687,002 page images of The Ottawa Journal, 1885-1980 added to the Ance...

A major database of 23,768,544 records starts off the year for ancestry.co.uk.  UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 is taken from series ...

Here's early notification and call for presentation proposals from The Niagara Peninsula Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society for...

According to Richard Gray from Deceased Online the company will be at least doubling the database size during 2013 and will be announcing ...

Jane MacNamara, who leads the Toronto Trust Cemeteries indexing project for Ontario Genealogical Society's Toronto Branch, wrote with th...

WDYTYA Live at Olympia in London, 22-24 February, continues to enhance the series of presentations again this year. Talks in The National A...

A short article in the Globe and Mail profiling work underway by Vancouver Archives staff – digital conservator Sue Bigelow, archives manage...

There's a short extension of the Family Tree DNA year end sale, until 3 January, a bonus for excessive procrastinators. Thanks to Bar...

The first day of a new year would be a great time to back up your computer data, especially your genealogy files which should be small enoug...

First post for the new year -- a final look at how various genealogy sites fared in 2012 -- benchmarks as of 31 December 2012. Comparable fi...

2012 saw just over 1,100 items posted on the blog. That was made possible by many of you who helped and encouraged this year by posting comm...

Genealogy bloggers aren't immune from the urge to look back as the year draws to a close. Roberta Estes, has posted the top ten genetic...

The most recent edition of The Family History Show , with Nick Barrett and Laura Berry is a rainy day visit to the Archive of the Year 2012 ...

The latest issue of the Alberta Family Histories Society quarterly magazine Chinook features articles on the theme “Find YOUR Tree in the F...

Unashamed nostalgia. Max Bygraves , an all round entertainer of my childhood who died this past August. There are a video medley and anecdot...

The London Borough of Hampstead has a major conservation project for Camden's Hampstead Parish Churchyard which includes an online educ...

Back in August OGS conducted a poll on use of DNA in genealogy. As I prepare for a Before BIFHSGO presentation on January 12 I went back to ...

This is a last minute substitution for the previously scheduled item.  You may recall this WDYTYA parody. It's better in reality ...