Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

Because there's so much going on registration is going well for June's Ontario Genealogical Society Conference in Ottawa. I doubt ...

The British Newspaper Archive now has pages 18,909,558 (18,501,553 pages last month) from 750 (742) titles online.  Major additions are hig...

Several bloggers who focus on DNA and genealogy have posted their views of the new Genetic Communities component to the AncestryDNA service....

Misattributed parentage, paternity and/or maternity, is an even more PC term for NPE (non-paternal event), an umbrella term for undocumented...

Tony Bandy, a librarian from Ohio whose presentations I've enjoyed at both BIFHSGO and OGS conferences, has written an article in Fami...

If you've transferred DNA results to MyHeritage, as I did a couple of weeks ago, you might have wondered why the results don't show ...

The HSO meeting this Friday 31 March 2017 at 1 pm sees George Shirreff speaking on Crawley Films of Ottawa. "Long before the term “Ho...

Warning:  Go away now if searching over 250,000 images of London from the collections at London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Art Ga...

There will be a visitation for Elizabeth Barclay-Lapointe this Wednesday, 29 March from 7-8 pm at the Cadieux Tubman Funeral Homes and Cre...

The FreeBMD Database was updated on Sunday 19 March 2017 to contain 260,466,571 distinct records (260,010,700 at the previous update). Yea...

News from TheGenealogist on a batch of London school and university records just added. "This release covers the names of those who g...

Jane E. MacNamara wrote to draw to my attention the website Irish in the American Civil War . In particular she pointed to a post that goes ...

Moving beyond basic genealogy, the names, dates and places of ancestors, we get an urge to understand what made them tick. Enter psycholog...

Between July 1898 and April 1901 12 issues of The Ontario Genealogist and Family Historian were published under the editorship of Edward M...

On Wednesday 29 March Christine Jackson is the guest speaker at the AGM of the Ottawa Valley Historical Society.  "The 400th annive...

Ten days ago I drafted a post regarding an update to this Ontario Catholic database. Ancestry announced an update to 1,604,863 records, up f...

The British Columbia Genealogical Society is "Celebrating our Canadian Ancestors" from Friday, 9 June to Sunday 11 June at vario...

The latest addition at Findmypast is Manitoba probate records 1871-1930 browse, 289 volumes and 289 volumes and 802,000 images of original ...

William Price , Arnprior town Councillor, Reeve and proprietor of the Canadian Tire Store, was a British home child. He was one of 100,000 w...

Until 2 April MyHeritage is offering their service at half-off to new subscribers, $125.37 US. Find out about the service, and enter a new ...