01 August 2014

Tracing Your WW1 Military Ancestors

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The most recent feature publication from Moorshead Magazines is  Tracing Your WW1 Military Ancestors. Two additional articles by Glenn Wr...

Benchmarks update for July

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Putting first things first, the top websites  overall as ranked by Alexa are: 1. Google, 2. Facebook, 3. YouTube, 4. Yahoo, 6. Wikipedia, 7....
31 July 2014

Name that Bridge

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It's the question of the moment in Ottawa. A quick survey, only open for two days. https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/SkCKud
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I almost fell out of my family tree

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It just about blew me away, an e-mail from Library and Archives Canada announcing a post on its blog –  Newspaper Collection website launc...
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Final day for One World One Family early registration

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August 1st is the deadline for early registration for the Fifth One World One Family Conference, August 23, 2014 in Brampton, Ontario. ...

Ancestry adds Dorset, England, Quarter Sessions Order Books, 1625-1905

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The 115,173 records in this Dorset database document "Quarter Session judges’ decisions in matters that include settlement inquiries,...
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The Master Genealogist bows out

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Wholly Genes have announced that they are discontinuing genealogy software The Master Genealogist . The website announces that: "Th...
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30 July 2014

Carleton University: Learning in Retirement

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The programs for the two fall sessions of Carleton University's Learning in Retirement are now available for registration. Note the seri...

Take a search refresher

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Plunking a search term into Google will often get you a long way, or at least a lot!  Sometimes you need more. I've mentioned sources fo...
29 July 2014

Ancestry IS watching you!

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Did you know that Ancestry, as part of its mission to "facilitate discovery of relevant person’s records and the construction of fami...
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Every Man Remembered

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It's never been easier to enshrine the memory of WW1 generation service, even a century later. The latest, reported by the BBC , is th...
28 July 2014

Paul Marsden on digitizing Canadian WW1 service files

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Library and Archives Canada military archivist Paul Marsden was interviewed on Monday on Canada AM regarding LAC's project to digitize c...

University of Toronto and WW1

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As did many universities in combatant countries the University of Toronto was a significant source of soldiers for the First World War. They...

Experience counts in genealogy search

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The results of the survey on ease of search on genealogy databases are in. Those who responded to the survey, 71% of whom were female, had...

Start of the Great War

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A century ago on this date, July 28 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war against Serbia starting, in terms of nation to nation conflict, a tra...
27 July 2014

Québec and WW1

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As someone who never studied Canadian history at school the WW1 conscription crisis in Québec is something of a puzzle for me. I was at scho...

Untold stories of the war

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From The Guardian, a dozen short articles by writers including Jeremy Paxman, Michael Morpurgo and Margaret MacMillan telling some of the su...
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26 July 2014

Debbie Kennett debunks genetic astrology

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DNA can be interpreted to enable major breakthroughs in family history, but can also be over interpreted. There is no regulation or professi...
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Canadiana seeks feedback to improve genealogy collections

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The following is from Canadiana. "Over the past few months, Canadiana.org has partnered with Library and Archives Canada on a massi...
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25 July 2014

Ancestry.co.uk free this weekend

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Free until midnight Sunday (BST), search Ancestry.co.uk ‏UK collections at  ancstry.me/1rOGxzD  with free registration.