Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

As I continue the search for a photo to accompany my entry for the BIFHSGO writing competition I'm thinking I might benefit from Wednesd...

The following announcement was written by WikiTree and the GeneaBloggersTRIBE: On the weekend of January 11-14, 2019, WikiTree and Genea...

Most of the announcements at www.familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-2019-whats-coming/  don't excite. Most notable is: The Family...

The British Library is now going beyond its Findmypast partnership and the British Newspaper Archive to digitize further legacy newspapers...

The following is a notice from one of my top genealogy websites — FreeBMD The FreeBMD website will be undergoing a revamp over the next fe...

For those of us choosing not to attend Rootstech in Salt Lake City, 27 February - 2 March 2019 the schedule of free streamed presentations i...

The Ottawa Public Library and Ottawa Branch Ontario Genealogical Society continue to offer drop in sessions, from 2-4 pm to work on your f...

The British Columbia Genealogical Society announces that Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi’s List will be keynote speaker at this year’s seminar. Date is...

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week. Mother Nature’s Tests That's a new blog from Wayne Shepheard to encourage ge...

With a grant from the National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS) worth $45,685, the University of Prince Edward Island Island Newspapers...

Norfolk Baptisms Over 76,000 additional records have been added to the Findmypast collection of Norfolk parish baptisms. The additions span...

The Celtic Connection aims to provide a link between the Irish, Scottish and Welsh communities in Western Canada and the Northwestern U.S....

New Year's Day was the opportunity for BIFHSGO's two immediate past presidents to enjoy a laugh. No collusion!

From the BBC In Our Time series on Radio 4, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how, from 1834, poor people across England and Wales faced new...

The first meeting of 2019 is on Saturday 5 January. Leanne Cooper will talk about: Using Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) for Genealogy: A Case...

One thing I've appreciated about LAC's operation over the past few years is the monthly reporting on digitization of First World War...

I waited until the start of the year to see if all Canadiana content included in Early Canadiana Online, Héritage, and Canadiana Online woul...

For the record, the following is a year end/new year message from Margo Georgiadis, CEO of Ancestry. Dear Ancestry Community,  As 2018 c...