Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

From the London Gazette, Findmypast has extracted 32,917 instances of Mentioned In Dispatches which generally give first name, last name, se...

For Canada, there are now 31,056,223 entries, updated from 30,877,928 records last November. Coverage is available for various newspapers fo...

Two modern UK death collections are new and updated on Findmypast. England & Wales Deaths 2007-2020 —over 353,000 new records, compiled ...

The Spring issue of this free magazine from Eneclann is now available for download . The contents are: Articles: Fiona Fitzsimons and Helen ...

Have you taken advantage of the free access to Ancestry Libary edition through your public library and decided you want your own subscriptio...

I had the good fortune to enjoy a Carleton U Shannon Lecture  by Maya Jasanoff on Joseph Conrad. Don't miss this one on ancestry. Thursd...

I omitted to note the publication of the most recent issue of OGS Families . Read it to find out why it's not because there's a load...

Here are the contents of the new issue of Internet Genealogy available on 12 April. Bright Beacons for Dark Seas: Lighthouses & Lightsh...

The British Newspaper Archive added 104,078 pages in the last 7 days for a total of 41,992,236 pages online (41,596,848 last month).  This m...

I can't say this until Saturday, and then will wait two weeks for the vaccine to become fully effective. Even then I'll be wearing a...

Each month Ancestry updates the index to Find a Grave  which boasts over 190 million memorials.  Since last mentioned at the end of January ...

Here's a press release about a major additional title on  TheGenealogist . TheGenealogist adds the 1939 Register with SmartSearch TheGen...

Choose from free online events in the next five days. All times are ET except as noted. Those in red are Canadian, bolded if local to Ottawa...

Way back in 2018 I mentioned Howard Mathieson's site The Geography of Surnames . He recently added a web page on Border Reiver surnames...

Two of the free resources mentioned by Thomas MacEntee in his Pat Horan Memorial Lecture Successful Collateral and Cluster Searching for Ge...

CDs followed vinyl, covered last week . I skipped 8-track and my cassette collection was never large. Some that bring back memories are: ...

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week. The Bayeux Tapestry Digitized COVID-19 silver linings : Technology has helped unive...

According to Preparing for the 1950 Census  The (US) National Archives will release those records in April 2022.  They got to work on it imm...

John Grenham has done it again, adding a capability to map RC marriages by surname to his already extensive at his subscription site  www.jo...

Ottawa Branch OGS  Gene-O-Rama  starts tomorrow, Saturday 27 March. A reminder there's an early start. 08:30 Update from Library &...