Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

Based on original data from Staffordshire County Council this birth, marriage and death index collection has 4,944,006 entries. A search bri...

The photo and video storage app called Shoebox (@ShoeboxApp) is shutting down. Everything will be deleted on 22 May. So if you have irrepla...

The Board for Certification of Genealogists® (BCG) has announced the first three recipients of the Donn Devine Award for Extraordinary S...

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week. And in the Sky the Larks: 1930s Colour Footage of the Western Front & Norther...

If you're reading this in Ottawa on Saturday morning it's not too late to scoot over, after the BIFHSGO meeting, for "always ...

The highlights this week for British records are: Lincolnshire Parish Records Over 266,000 additional records with images of original r...

The FreeBMD Database was updated on Thursday 9 May 2019 and to contain 269,939,666 unique records (269,607,959 at previous update). Years w...

Starting today you can register online for the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa 25th anniversary conference. Here...

From yesterday evening to this morning the LAC website has been — "temporarily unavailable." Service returned mid-afternoon.

To get the best out of a visit to the Western Front battlefields of the First World War you need a guide. This new publication from Pen an...

The monthly meeting on 11 May features two local speakers. 9:00 to 9:30 am, Dena Palamedes will present on: How to Create a Family Tree...

BIFHSGO has just added a third database with the icon *NEW* to its specialist collection. It's 1,834 children evacuated privately to C...

Library and Archives Canada has an open invitation to a free one-hour lively conversation with Don Newman. He will be the guest of Guy Berth...

A reminder that the end of this month is the deadline for BIFHSGO members to enter the 25th Anniversary Writing Competition. Organizer Ja...

This Saturday afternoon the Ottawa Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is holding their annual free family history event. G...

A new video on YouTube from ISOGG Education Ambassador Maurice Gleeson. It's right up to date.

This tutorial covers basic and advanced searches, how to search for historic photographs and ordering procedures.

Australian company t otheletter DNA  claims to be the first company in the world to offer commercially-available testing of envelopes, postc...

If you were at the Ottawa DNA group meeting last Saturday you saw examples of DNA unravelling family secrets. We didn't get into the nex...

The back cover blurb includes "Fascinating guide for genealogists and budding family historians wanting to learn more about their nam...