05 May 2015

See YOU at the Zoomer Show

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This weekend sees the Ottawa Zoomer Show 2015 at the Ottawa Convention Centre downtown. Ottawa genealogy partners the City of Ottawa Archi...
04 May 2015

Good News for Irish Genealogists

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John Grenham reports on a preview of the National Library of Ireland Roman Catholic parish registers to come online soon. In 90 per cent squ...

BIFHSGO Conference 2015 Speakers

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Now it's officially posted on the society website I can blog about the BIFHSGO conference, 18-20 September 2015. Program chair Jane Do...
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FamilySearch adds Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922

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This new FamilySearch database contains an index and images of ships' passenger lists for the ports of Quebec City, 1900-1921; Halifax, ...
03 May 2015

Dr Guy Berthiaume at the City of Ottawa Archives

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On the evening of Thursday 30 April 2015 Dr Guy Berthiaume Librarian and Archivist of Canada gave a talk with title  Something old, somethin...
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"No one on the planet is a true native"

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A worthwhile read from the Wall Street Journal Ancient DNA Tells a New Human Story Armed with old bones and new DNA sequencing technology...

Food for Thought for Genealogy Societies

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In An Open Letter to Genealogy Societies blogger Susan Petersen vents on seven frustrations with some of our organizations. Hopefully not al...
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02 May 2015

May Backup Nag

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It wasn't until I started this post that I remembered I hadn't started my monthly hard drive backup. It's not too late.. Just ...

Exploring the History of British Health Care

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The King's Fund, an independent charity working to improve health and health care in England, is digitising all of its publications sinc...
01 May 2015

New Datasets from Findmypast

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This Friday`s regular updates at Findmypast are: England and Wales, The Society of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841 contain 234,534 reco...

Benchmarks Update for April

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It was an average month for genealogy websites, as many sites gained as declined in Alexa rank. Coverage of isogg.org was initiated with the...
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30 April 2015

Robert Fitzroy and Origins of Weather Forecasting

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Today 30 April 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the death by suicide of Robert Fitzroy , pioneer of weather forecasts in Britain. There...

More on the 1939 Register for England and Wales

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On 24 September 1939 enumerators distributed forms which were compiled into a register of the population of England and Wales. The forms wer...
29 April 2015

British Medical Directories coming to Ancestry

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The Wellcome Library has announced  the start of a project to digitize some of its family history materials in partnership with Ancestry.co...

Irish genealogy takes a big step forward on Wednesday 8 July

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THE source for Irish Genealogy News, Claire Santry, has posted NLI announces date for launch of RC registers' website.  Silicon Republic...

FamilySearch adds Saskatchewan Cemetery Transcripts

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Added to the sources for Saskatchewan burials are 164,737 index records covering 1850 and 1994 at FamilySearch . These are transcripts of to...

Want to be a better Ontario genealogist? Here's how.

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From Sunday June 7, 2015 at 5:30 pm to Friday June 12 you can undertake guided research at Toronto's almost annual Genealogy Summer Ca...
28 April 2015

Maximising Cultural and Genealogical Heritage in Ireland

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When John Grenham writes in his Irish Roots blog, in an article with the title Catherine Murphy for Taoiseach , referring to a government r...
27 April 2015

Get 40% off Ancestry.ca memberships

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40% discount is about as good as it gets for Ancestry memberships. Take advantage of the offer: Canada Deluxe Annual Membership at the s...
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Your Genealogy Today: May/June 2015

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For some people old family photographs are a focus of their family history interest. They produce multiple copies sending them to new foun...