Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

From Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, October 2019, a UK perspective. www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/blog/14-best-websites-dna-fam...

A short report on the City of Ottawa Archives activities was given at Sunday's AGM of the Friends of the City of Ottawa Archives . It ...

The October - December 2019 issue of the Journal of One-Name Studies includes an article by Peter Copsey on New Rules for Marriage Registrat...

The featured personalities in the new season of the PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will include Jeffrey Wright...

This Wednesday, 9 October at 7 p.m., the Ottawa Historical Society launches its new Evening Speaker Series. HSO member François Bregha, S...

There are now 4,898,177 entries in this updated collection derived from the Edinburgh City Archives taken from: Poll Books for Councillor...

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week. Irish Lives Remembered The Autumn 2019 issue of this free magazine is available....

The following, by Glenn Wright, reports on a recent memorable visit to Great Britain. A 25 April blog post , and links therein, described ...

The Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 for the National Records of Scotland mentions an "untapped resource for genealogists and resear...

The National Institute for Genealogical Studies is celebrating its 20th Anniversary by bringing back 1999 registration fees — $50.00 per ...

Image from https://www.theatlantic.com/ magazine/archive/2018/07/carl-zimmer- she-has-her-mother-s-laugh/561710/ This Saturday, 5 Octobe...

The major new records on Findmypast this week are from Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Pennsylvania Cemetery & Burial 1700-1950 Browse ...

For those going to RootsTech London , you can now sign up for a time to receive one-on-one expert genealogy advice in the Trace.com Coache...

Ancestry collections, England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2018 now with 2,194,898 entries; and Scotland and Northern Ireland, Death Index,...

In a previous post , I wrote about the Digitization Lab at the OPL Beaverbrook Branch. There is now a second Super 8 / 8mm transfer machi...

From the Ottawa event at Ben Franklin Place on 8 August, here, belatedly, and thanks to a prompt at the BIFHSGO conference, are two pdf ha...

I was asked if I'd experienced an undue delay with obtaining probate documents for England and Wales. Now that the cost is reduced from ...

Sourced from the Western Front Association, this collection provides details of UK military and military-related personnel, who filed for a ...

This year’s coordinator of the Shannon Lectures and prominent Ottawa author, Charlotte Gray, will open the series on Friday, 4 October wit...

If you enjoyed the presentations by Blaine Bettinger at #BIFHSGO25 there's an opportunity to attend a free Legacy Family Tree webinar ...