Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections

All historic burial records from Leicester City Council's cemeteries are now available to view on www.deceasedonline.com. The records av...

 Here is the latest survey of top tweeters for #genealogy and #familyhistory in the past few days. Rank #genealogy Count   #familyhistory Co...

I received an email from Ancestry.ca offering a 6-month membership at 40% discount. For the complete, World Deluxe 6-month membership the of...

On 14 June 1921 Alexander Pratt Menzies, age 24, was found drowned at Britannia Bay on the Ottawa River. There's little additional infor...

Having had to resort to this older blog for the past few days the distribution for the new one appears to be working.  I ran over the monthl...

 "Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) is English Canada’s best-known first-wave feminist." "Alongside the other Famous Five, includ...

Tomorrow, Saturday 12 June 9 am: BIFHSGO AGM 10 am:  Great Moments in Genealogy  Over the Sea to ... "Shetland" (Jill Thompson) –...

What's new at Findmypast? Single year additions to Birmingham, Middlesborough and Westminster Catholic parish records. Over 4,000 new En...

From Toronto Branch OGS, an interesting series for summer enjoyment. Wednesday 16 June  (7:30 p.m. EDT) Misbegotten, Misled, Mistaken: Tackl...

Part of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Meeting, “The Marianna O’Gallagher Memorial Session: Strokestown Famine Orphans in...

Abstracts records from the International Bomber Command Centre. There are links to more detailed information at the IBCC websit e which reco...

Updated, now with 628,011 records, Bedfordshire, England, Workhouse and Poor Law Records, 1835-1914 was originally published by Ancestry in ...

Still struggling with service on the new blog. Choose from free online events in the next five days. All times are ET except as noted. Those...

Note: There's a hiccup with the new blog. In an obscure corner of the LAC website is a document Transition 2019 – E-binder. Leslie Weir,...

NOTE: There's a hiccup with the new blog. Smith, then Brown and then Wilson saw the most Canadian military fatalities in both wars. acco...

On Friday 4 June 2021, from 9 am to 7 pm Ancestry.ca in conjunction with the Ontario Genealogical Society is offering a full day of mostly 3...

A couple of folks who use Chrome with gmail have let me know they found the daily email notifications for the new blog diverted to a Promoti...

A start of month reminder that there is no longer regular posting at this site. Daily posts are now made at the new site. www.anglocelticcon...

Born in Bradford, Yorkshire on 30 November 1869, son of Robert (John?) and Mary Ellen nee Limbert. In the 1881 census, he was in the home of...

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week — the post is now on the new blog site www.anglocelticconnections.ca Be sure to subs...