Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

Using a new website from University College London, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ you can look up the names of those who received compensation, ...

Ancestry.ca now facilities searching index entries for Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery, 1887-2007. Located west of Fraser St, between...

It used to be that using the smaller rooms in the Library and Archives Canada building was free to community group with a purpose related to...

  BIFSGO President Glenn Wright photographed on the upper level of the event building, one where the RCMP Musical Ride first performed i...

In a press release from Ancestry.com "AncestryDNA Test Provides An Affordable, Easy Way to Learn About Your Past and Family" we l...

The FreeBMD Database was last updated on Saturday 23 February 2013 and currently contains 226,280,181 distinct records. Significant update...

Once again Library and Archives Canada has released a nominally indexed census on their website, this for 1911. There is a good discussion ...

Main Estimates tabled in the House of Commons on Monday reflect the Harper government's continued low priority for Canada's document...

I'm sometimes asked to do genealogical research for a fee - it's not something I accept. I'm also asked to recommend people to d...

You may find the pace of blogging here slows for a few days. I'll be back.

I didn't get to the show on the third day. Every indication was it would be quieter as was the case the previous two years I attended. S...

For those who were not able to pick up a handout from the talk Glenn Wright and I gave on Saturday, here is the text. Researching Eng...

Although it seemed a bit quieter on Saturday than Friday all exhibitors I spoke with seemed happy with the traffic. Ancestry said they were ...

The 24th Annual Conference of the Scottish Association of Family History Societies will be held within the Scottish Borders Campus, Nether...

Some of the smaller family history societies find it too costly to exhibit independently at the Who Do You Think You Are Live event. Several...

Julia Creet, an Associate Professor of English at York University in Toronto, is currently working on a genealogy of genealogy, a documenta...

It was a busy day on the first day of the Who Do Think You Are Live event at Kensington, Olympia. Most of the exhibitors from previous years...

Manor Park Crematorium, located in Forest Gate, East London, has now made all records available through www.deceasedonline.com Register sc...

The end of the 92 year embargo on release of the original 1921 Canadian census schedules is approaching The census was taken on 1 June 1921 ...

On Friday and Saturday you can watch the Ancestry academy lectures streamed live from Who Do You Think You Are? Live. They are every hour st...