Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

Bibliocracy blogs "reports from the CLA conference in Winnipeg indicate that Library and Archives Canada are currently in talks with Ca...

This is Day 6 since the 1921 census officially passed into the custody of Library and Archives Canada. Don't worry, I've no intent...

Last weekend's OGS meeting in Oshawa was the occasion for the Society Annual General Meeting. Here's an update. Robert Crawford wa...

As of late Thursday I'm pleased to be celebrating 900,000 page views on this blog according to StatCounter .

Researcher in the Pre-Confederation period suffer from a lack of online records, and generally fewer records period. Ancestry.ca will shor...

You can save if you order multiple 23andMe DNA tests in the same order: there's a 20% reduction on kits after the first in the order, $7...

Saturday sees the Annual General Meeting of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa and another helping of Great Moments ...

This is Day 5 since the 1921 census officially passed into the custody of Library and Archives Canada. At LAC on Tuesday I went to the Gen...

The following is an announcement from Library and Archives Canada Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the release of a new...

This is Day 4 since the 1921 census officially passed into the custody of Library and Archives Canada. The LAC announcement was finally p...

Pharos Teaching and Tutoring is out with the list of course offerings for the three months starting in July. July So You Think You Know ...

If you happen to have a UK recognized civil or mechanical engineer in your family tree Ancestry's new collection of professional records...

Library and Archive Canada's promised announcement is now posted. As expected, the significant "news" is: Library and Archiv...

The release that went along with an announcement of four online DNA presentations this Thursday quoted CeCe Moore “We believe that these ses...

Passing along a couple of comments about the OGS annual conference just ended in Durham College, Oshawa. I didn't attend.   First th...

This is Day 3 since the 1921 census officially passed into the custody of Library and Archives Canada. I went to 395 Wellington Street on ...

As family historians we rely on historians to provide context. What was the world in which our ancestors lived like? What was happening in s...

This is a shoutout for a series of blog posts by Roberta Estes under the title The Autosomal Me , now consolidated into a single pdf. It do...

Having failed to keep their promise about a countdown to Library and Archives Canada obtaining the custody of the 1921 census on June 2, we ...

The June/July issue of Internet Genealogy  starts with an article on Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. Scott Phillips points out the featur...