Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

Findmypast promotes the 6,775,052 entries in the new England & Wales, Electoral Registers database as a 1920 census substitute. These in...

Although original wills held by the Church of Ireland were victims of the 1922 Four Courts disaster an index to 38,829 of them survives. An...

If you have used Early Canadiana Online, part of Canadiana.org, this merger announcement may be of interest. The organizations will be stron...

The FBI extracted DNA from a highly degraded 4000-year-old Egyptian Mummy head, in the interests of testing and improving forensic technique...

Clare Santry reports an update to the project bringing the total number of entries in the free index to 268,752. They come from 29,859 memo...

23andMe have delivered the promised Ancestry Composition update, now showing connections to 151 populations around the world. My contine...

Save the date: Saturday 21 April, 2018 at 10:00am. Free, no registration required. The Ottawa Public Library and BIFHSGO are cooperating ...

The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is now inviting proposals for the eighth annual Toronto History Lecture, to be held o...

Library and Archives Canada is subject to Government of Canada requirement of proactive disclosure of senior management expenses. Total exp...

Tucked away in the report Digest of statistics for the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 2016/17  (pdf), published 28 March, is a p...

Thursday, 5 April, 2018 – 7:00 p.m. ET Presentation: Cataloging Your Digital Images Using Adobe Bridge with IPTC Cultural Heritage Panel Pre...

The following is extracted from an OGS media release. The NextGen Genealogy Network (NGGN) and the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) ar...

There were updates to five London, England, Church of England collections in March: Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003; 2,733,953 total record...

A one-day (actually half-day) colloquium on 6 April at McGill University, Rediscovering the Scots , inaugurates the St. Andrew’s Society/M...

Deceased Online has slowed in adding new data in recent months, and the new addition is a departure. Instead of burial records the additi...

Today, 1 April 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force, formed by combining the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Fly...

What's in the new issue? A Visit to the Internet Archive Diane L. Richard writes the Internet Archive is one of her all-time favour...

The following is good news extracted from an Ontario Genealogical Press Release. Due to security issues with their current hosting provide...

The British Newspaper Archive now has  24,710,849 pages (24,209,059 pages last month). The 58 papers (108 last month) with new pages onl...

If you have an opportunity over the long weekend I suggest browsing the new issue of Library and Archive Canada's magazine, available ...