Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

Here's the monthly update on Co-Lab challenges projects as of 17 March showing some good progress. PROGRESS Women Lightkeepers: h...

By far the best article in the Spring 2020 issue of Anglo-Celtic Roots is by Patricia Roberts-Pichette and Christine Jackson. Celebrating ...

... for boredom that is ... Mike More posted on Facebook. If you start getting bored at home, we are always looking for people to index the ...

That's the message in the present pandemic situation for all Galleries, Museums, Archives and Libraries. It applies to genealogical an...

Happy St Patrick's Day While St. Patrick’s Day events are curtailed Findmypast has come through with a St Patrick offer of 40% off an...

November's RootsTech London event 2020 is already cancelled. What about others? The Family Tree Live event scheduled for Alexandra Pa...

The FreeBMD Database was updated on Thursday 12 March 2020 to contain 273,825,854 unique records (273,498,540 at previous update). Years...

TheGenealogist has released a collection of 24 Early Trade and Residential Directories that cover the years 1816-1839. Over half are fo...

Scanning this word cloud based on the section  Providing access to documentary heritage of the  LAC Departmental Plan 2020–2021 you might...

Completing Deceased Online's East Cheshire collection, which now comprises 245,800 burials, are indexed scans of the original burial r...

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week. This past week Ancestry had some problems adding items to its catalogue. It...

Today, 14 March 2020, is the 14th anniversary of the start of this blog. On day one, the first post was on Library Elf which is still g...

Steve Fulton, OGS/Ontario Ancestors President, announces "All Society public-facing events, volunteer work and research groups will be ...

Beyond the new titles mentioned last Sunday Ancestry now includes two additional databases well worth exploring for Irish ancestors: Ir...

Findmypast continues to bring us new Irish records, courtesy of St Patrick! Waterford Poor Law Union Board Of Guardians Minute Books Th...

As a consequence of notice by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints all Family History Centres are closed. Beginning immediately...

Among the events listed at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa for the rest of the year is a Ancestry Military History Day Seminar on Sunday 3 Ma...

At the end of a blog post, Thank you, Belfast! reviewing the GGI2020 Belfast (14-15 February) conference (where you'll find informati...

Director Mary Lou Simac has posted that BIFHSGO has cancelled Saturday's meeting  -- out of an abundance of caution. Good decision.

MEETING CANCELLED This Saturday, 14 March at The Chamber, Ben Franklin Place 101 Centrepointe Drive, Ottawa, Ontario. SHOULD I ATTEND?...