Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

I'm a long-time Findmypast subscriber and use it frequently, especially these days for the digitized British newspaper access. Sadly F...

The first in the 2018 series of Carleton University Shannon lectures is this Friday, 12 October, a presentation by Dr. Donna Yates (Lectur...

Here are some of the articles featured in this Great War Centennial issue. LIFE AFTER ARMISTICE The Great War cast a long shadow over t...

You perhaps saw the announcement that the social network Google+ will be discontinued. Finding 1: There are significant challenges in crea...

The BNA tweeted out "Cajoling and coaxing of servers is ongoing and new titles are arriving on the site.  We have some syncing to do.....

Weddings, Thanksgiving and Funerals, occasions when families get together, are opportunities to gather and distribute family history knowled...

I've just finished reading, or rather listening to the audiobook version of this recent book by science writer Carl Zimmer . It's...

Information on Lieutenant Colonel William Mahlon Davis who died on 8 October 1918 is in this Wikipedia article . He is buried at Beechwo...

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week. How our addiction to stories keeps us from understanding history Internet Archi...

Several people have asked. Owing to various circumstances I will not be conducting the Rockstar Genealogist survey this year. Experience f...

Leopold James Smallwood is interred at Sec. 29. Lot 108NE and 109NW at Beechwood cemetery. According to the 1901 census of Canada he was bor...

From the CBC, 650 Anglican registers from Fredericton diocese dating back to the 1790s being digitized in project of the Anglican Diocese of...

Well over half a million new records have been added to FMP's collections of Kent Parish records . Kent baptisms add 464,0000 new tr...

On Monday 6 November Library and Archives Canada hosts an open invitation seminar about the Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP...

Newly released registers on TheGenealogist are: The Register of Tonbridge School, Kent, 1826-1910; Repton School Register Supplement to 1...

Those who viewed the post How deep are your Ottawa Genealogical Roots  a couple of days ago may be interested to see this photo  of early ...

Harold Henry Fawcett, born in Ottawa 20 May 1895, died at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal on 5 October of pneumonia following infl...

From randymajors.com, current county lines on Google Maps anywhere in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Switzerlan...

Each year organizations federally registered as charities in Canada for tax purposes are required to file returns with the Canada Revenue ...

The Ottawa DNA Group will meet at 9:30 am this Saturday 6 October at the City of Ottawa Archives (Room 115), 100 Tallwood Drive, Nepean, O...