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Indexing Irish Cemeteries By Dr. David R. Elliott When I first went to Ireland in 2004 search of my ancestors and for my clients' ancestors I found that there were few indexes for the cemeteries. I found that some of them listed the names of the people alphabetically, without any context, maps and with.... Read on >> Recent Articles: Ancestry.ca marks 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic with chilling collection of historical records By Press release: Ancestry.ca April 14 and 15, 2012 mark the 100th anniversary of one of history's most famous peacetime maritime disasters - the sinking of RMS Titanic during her maiden voyage. Ancestry.ca commemorates this historic moment with a full suite of historical resources for Canadians interested in learning about the disaster - particularly the.... Read on >> FamilySearch Added 14 Million Additional Records for 19 Countries This Week By Press release: FamilySearch.org 1940 U.S. Census Images Now Part of the Exciting New Records Online. FamilySearch also published over 14 million new, free records online for Austria, Brazil, Chile, China, Columbia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and Spain..... Read on >> Irish Family History Foundation Announces "Credit System" for Buying Online Data By Press release: FamilySearch.org RootsIreland.ie has introduced a credits system with various bulk buy options that give users a chance to view the detail of a record..... Read on >> More on Writing Your Life Story By Shirley Gage Hodges The comments and questions that I received after the previous article Writing Your Life Story prompted this follow up. Some of the comments were about the idea of writing a time line. Making a time line triggers memories and thoughts and helps you to.... Read on >> FamilySearch Added 6.3 Million Free Records for 20 Countries This Week By Press release: FamilySearch.org FamilySearch added over 6.3 million new, free records online this past week for Australia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and the U.S..... Read on >> UPDATE: Family Tree Maker and Ancestry All-Day workshop in Ottawa - April 22, 2012 By Rick Roberts There are only 5 seats remaining for the Family Tree Maker / Ancestry.com Seminar in Ottawa on April 22nd. If you have been planning on registering, call today (1-800-361-5168) or register online to..... Read on >> Are You a Genealogist or a Family Historian? By Shirley Gage Hodges Some times when people ask us what we do we say that we are genealogists. I am proud to be.... Read on >> More New Projects at FamilySearch - Why not Become a Volunteer Online Transcriber? By Press release: FamilySearch.org Choose to index records from any country that you are interested in, including new indexing projects that were added for Paraguay, Panama, Bolivia, and Slovakia this week.... Read on >> OGS Conference 2012: Register Soon for the Early-Bird Discount By Rick Roberts Canada's biggest annual genealogy event is accepting registrations, and the early bird discount rate is in effect until..... Read on >> The Importance of Journals By Shirley Gage Hodges Several people have asked about the types of things that you can find in journals. I have been able to find a lot of things that I could incorporate into our family's histories by reading journals that have been written by family members..... Read on >> FamilySearch Added 20 Million Free Records for 6 Countries This Week By Press release: FamilySearch.org FamilySearch added just over 20 million new, free records online this past week for Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, and the U.S. The 9 million new California death records and 5 million Nevada marriage records should be a boon for those looking for ancestors in.... Read on >> Birth, Marriage & Death Indexes from Nova Scotia updated on Ancestry.ca By Rick Roberts Ancestry.ca has updated its Nova Scotia collection this week with more than 90,000 updated Birth, Marriage and Death records that.... Read on >> Things To Do Before Your Research Trip By Shirley Gage Hodges As a response to emails that I received after my recent article on Planning a Research Trip I decided that I would do an article about some of the items we should review before going..... Read on >> FamilySearch Added 2.8 Million Free Records for 6 Countries This Week By Press release: FamilySearch.org FamilySearch added 2.8 million new, free records online this past week for Canada, England, Hungary, Italy, Russia, and the U.S. Got Hungarian roots? Check out the new 900,000 Hungary Reformed Church Christenings records, and.... Read on >> Write Your Life Story By Shirley Gage Hodges Write your life story. It truly is the most precious gift that you could ever give your family. I think that the most important mistake that we make as genealogists is.... Read on >> FamilySearch Adds Free Records from 7 Countries By Press release: FamilySearch.org 12 million new, free records online (6.5 million indexed names and 5.6 million browsable images) for Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, U.S and ..... Read on >> Planning Your Research Trip By Shirley Gage Hodges It is time to start planning your summer research trip. I know that it seems early to start thinking about that but it takes time to really prepare properly. Before leaving on your research trip you need to.... Read on >> Update: Save Library & Archives Canada By Gerry Glavin Today (Feb. 11), at the British Isles Family History Society's monthly meeting, we had a presentation on this subject by one of the Professional Officers of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) on the subject of the Library & Archives [Canada] plans for downsizing and the narrowing of.... Read on >> FamilySearch Adds Free Records from 21 Countries By Press release: FamilySearch.org FamilySearch added another 30 million new, free records online (16 million indexed names and 14 million browsable images). Totally new collections from Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Micronesia, Slovenia, and the United States can now be searched for free. Millions of new U.S.... Read on >> Storing and Preserving Family Archives and Artifacts By Rick Roberts While collecting information about our ancestors, family historians often build collections of physical documents and family keepsakes. Most researchers are at a loss to know how to save and preserve those one-of-a-kind items for... Read on >> Brightsolid Enters USA Genealogy Market With Pay-As-You-Go site Censusrecords.com By Press Release, Brightsolid Brightsolid today announces its entry into the US genealogy market with the launch of a ground-breaking, "pay-as-you-go" site. The new site will let customers search all US census records from 1790 to 1930 and is the first... Read on >> Some Suggestions and Comments about Searching the Ontario Catholic Marriage Records Hosted on Familysearch.org By J. Brian Gilchrist While these images are not yet indexed, it is possible to find entries of interest if you know the geographical area / County / District that your ancestors and family members lived in. On the "home" page for this Collection you have to... Read on >> RootsTech Conference Will Broadcast Select Sessions Free Online By Press Release - RootsTech 2012 RootsTech, a leading family history and technology conference, announced Friday that fourteen of its popular sessions will be broadcasted live and complimentary over the Internet... Read on >> The War of 1812 Bicentennial Calendar By Press Release, United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada In response to requests to provide an on-line site of current events and information on all War of 1812 Bicentennial activities, we have created an interactive community website open to Canadian and US groups and institutions who wish... Read on >> 180,000 East London burial records added to Deceased Online today By Press Release, Deceased Online Newham is latest London borough to add burial records. Historic West Ham Cemetery dates back to 1857 – all records available now... Read on >> FamilySearch - Share Your Story Contest! By Rick Roberts FamilySearch.org, a free online source for billions of genealogy records, wants to hear your family history research stories. Tell them how... Read on >> Deceased Online adds thousands more Scottish records By Press Release, Deceased Online Records for 50 Scottish burial sites being added with the first records online now! Also an announcement about Who Do You Think You Are Live conference... Read on >> brightsolid Sponsors RootsTech 2012, 2-4 February By Press Release, Brightsolid Brightsolid will be a main partner with a large presence at this major family history and technology conference in Salt Lake City. CEO Chris van der Kuyl will be announcing the launch of... Read on >> FamilySearch adds Ontario, Roman Catholic Church Records, 1760-1923 By Rick Roberts The overall collection includes church records for events that that were documented between 1760 and 1923. However, the amount and time frame of documents varies by county and parish... Read on >> Cataraqui Cemetery (Kingston, Ontario) Granted National Historic Designation By J. Brian Gilchrist On January 17, 2012 the Honourable Peter Kent, Canada's Enviroment Minister and the Minister responsible for Parks Canada announced that... Read on >> Want To Find Out If Your English Ancestors Were Vikings? By Rick Roberts While taking a break this morning and browsing online university library catalogues, I came across an interesting study that... Read on >> Upcoming Genealogy Programming on Network TV By J. Brian Gilchrist The popular series (Who do you think you are?) returns to NBC beginning Friday Feb. 3, at 8:00 p.m. local time. As usual a variety of people with public profiles have agreed to have their ancestry and family history investigated... Read on >> Call To Action To Save Library and Archives Canada By The Canadian Association of University Teachers Library and Archives Canada (LAC), is under threat. Our federal institution responsible for preserving Canada's documentary heritage is undergoing a "modernization" process that has troubling implications for the way Canada's history and heritage are preserved and understood... Read on >> Family Tree Maker and Ancestry All-Day Workshop in Ottawa - April 22, 2012 By Rick Roberts Lesley Anderson of Ancestry.ca and Rick Roberts of GlobalGenealogy.com will present a full day workshop where you can learn how to best use Ancestry's online genealogy databases, and Family Tree Maker software to research, record and share your family history. Read on >> Followup to: Was Your Ancestor a Gold Star Mother? By Shirley Gage Hodges One of the best rewards of being a columnist for the Global Gazette is the feedback that I get from readers. After the article about Gold Star Mothers was published I heard from Nancy Donald of Ontario. She was the recipient of a Gold Star in honor of.... Read on >> FamilySearch Ushers in New Year with 119 Million New, Free Records from 33 Countries By Press release, FamilySearch.org FamilySearch was extra busy during the holidays. It added 119 million new, free records online (about 64 million indexed names and 55 million browsable images). This latest round of record updates makes 1008 historic record collections online boasting 2.58 billion searchable names and 466 million digital images of historic documents. The numbers are.... Read on >> Was Your Ancestor a Gold Star Mother? By Shirley Gage Hodges Mothers throughout the ages have worried about their children who were away from their homes defending their country. Beginning in World War I, American families often expressed their.... Read on >> Irish Emigration Database – Not just for Ireland By Ruth Blair PLCGS The Irish Emigration Database is a collection passenger lists from ships sailing from the United Kingdom and Ireland to the United States [many passengers continued on to Canada]. The information was compiled.... Read on >> Remembering Our Military Ancestors During This Holiday Season By: Shirley Gage Hodges As we are approaching the holiday season we are thinking about our families that were alive during the time of the American Civil War and how they were affected by their loved ones involvement in the war.... Read on >> British Newspaper Archive Goes Live on Genes Reunited By Press Release: Genes Reunited Previously hard-to-reach material now available . Over 4 million fully-searchable pages of historical newspapers . Archives feature over 65 million stories . 8,000 pages added everyday. The British Newspaper Archive - recently launched.... Read on >> Ontario Genealogical Society Invited To Share Concerns with Federal Liberal Caucus By Rick Roberts Recent invitations by the federal Liberal Party caucus have demonstrated an interest in issues that are important to genealogists. If a similar initiative from.... Read on >> Online & Traditional Resources for Researching Canadian Military Service Records & History By Rick Roberts This morning we added more links to an earlier article that lists online and traditional resources for those researching Canadian Military service records and history, including Commonwealth War Graves Registers (digitized original records), and Circumstances of Death Registers (digitized original records).... Read on >> Two New Features on GlobalGenealogy.com Online Store By Rick Roberts Though GlobalGenealogy.com's core business is publishing and selling new history and genealogy books, we have a large inventory of antiquarian, used, and scratch and dent history and genealogy books, as well as miscellaneous new books that are available at clearance prices. With that in mind we have launched.... Read on >> Carleton University Researchers Conducting Canadian Genealogy Survey By Carleton University, Ottawa A team of Carleton researchers is seeking family historians to complete an online survey detailing how and why they conduct their genealogical research. This is the first national survey of its kind and aims to.... Read on >> Launch of the Library and Archives Canada Blog By Press Release, Library and Archives Canada Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce the release of our new blog, a project developed by the Resource Discovery Sector.... Read on >> WorldVitalRecords.com and FamilyLink.com Purchased by MyHeritage By Press Release, MyHeritage MyHeritage announced today the acquisition of FamilyLink.com, Inc., maker of the family history content sites FamilyLink.com and WorldVitalRecords.com. This is MyHeritage's seventh and largest acquisition since.... Read on >> Thank you to the descendants of War of 1812 Veterans By Rick Roberts The Canadian Press posted an appeal in The Global Gazette on Nov 4, 2011 for descendants of veterans from the War of 1812 to contact them with their stories. The following is a thank you to the many.... Read on >> FamilySearch Announces New CEO By Press Release, FamilySearch.org FamilySearch International announced today a change in its chief executive officer. Effective January 2, 2012, Dennis C. Brimhall will succeed.... Read on >> FamilySearch Adds 8 Million New Records - 20 Countries By Press Release, FamilySearch.org A broad range of records were added to FamilySearch this week from 20 countries, notably Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, England, Dominican Republic, Germany, Italy, Philippines, and the U.S. The U.S. additions include a variety of records from California, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.... Read on >> Online Resources for Canadian Military Records & History By Rick Roberts As we approach Remembrance Day, it is a time for us to recognize, appreciate and honour the sacrifices that others made so that we might enjoy the freedoms that we have today. We, as genealogy researchers, can honour our military ancestors this week by focusing our research efforts on them. I hope that the following set of links will help you.... Read on >> A Stroll Down Memory Lane with South Dublin, Ireland Images By Ruth Blair PLCGS There is a website created by South Dublin Libraries as part of their Local Studies Collection. The collection includes: photographs, postcards, slides, prints,.... Read on >> Royal Canadian Navy Ledger Sheets (1910-1941) By Rick Roberts If you are looking for information about individuals who served in the Royal Canadian Navy or the Naval Reserve between the beginnning of the Canadian Navy in 1910 up to 1918, or those who enlisted between 1919 and 1940, you need to check the online Royal Canadian Navy Ledger Sheets.... Read on >> Looking for Descendants of War of 1812 Veterans By Rick Roberts The Canadian Press is looking for descendants of veterans from the War of 1812, and thought that some our readers would be interested in participating.... Read on >> Save Library & Archives Canada Movement Gaining Traction By Rick Roberts Library and Archives Canada (LAC) in Ottawa has been quietly removing services, reducing staff and taking a "aggressive" approach with those attempting.... Read on >> The National Library of Scotland’s Emigration Stories Resource By Ruth Blair PLCGS The National Library of Scotland has a website called “Scots Abroad: Stories of Scottish Emigration” that includes first-hand accounts of Scottish emigration from the 1770's to the 1930s, plus.... Read on >> Irish Family History Foundation's Online Records Promotion By Rick Roberts Irish Family History Foundation (IFHF) has announced a special promotion on access to their 18 million online Irish records until November 30th, 2011. Indexes are free, records are.... Read on >> Installing Family Tree Maker to your Netbook By Rick Roberts Family Tree Maker software is distributed on an installation disc rather than as a download from the company web site which presented a problem for.... Read on >> GlobalGenealogy.com is now on Facebook By Rick Roberts In the short time that our Facebook page has been up, we have posted notices about new online resources, genealogy events, and links to useful articles for history and genealogy enthusiasts. We would appreciate your opinion about... Read on >> Family Tree Maker 2012 - Product Review By Rick Roberts The new 2012 version of the ever popular Family Tree Maker (FTM) software program arrived here recently. Pre-release advertising materials promised some powerful new tools and I was anxious to try them out. Here's what I found... Read on >> Canadian Historical Anecdotes - General James Wolfe (1727/28-1759) Transcribed by Sandra Roberts Wolfe was mortally wounded at the Plains of Abraham, as was his adversary Montcalm, but he lived long enough to comprehend his victory and then departed in... Read on >> 20,000 Names added to the online database Home Children (1869-1930) Announcement: Library and Archives Canada Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the online database Home Children (1869-1930). More than 20,000 names of children, who came to Canada between 1925 and 1932, were added to.... Read on >> The Settlement of the Severn and Muskoka Road, Canada West [Ontario] 1859 By Rick Roberts When settlement of the southern-most townships of present day Ontario was nearing completion, roads were built to encourage settlement and development of the "back" townships. The settlement roads were built under the guidance of, and administered by the Superintendent of Colonization Roads. "Road" is a generous description of what were often muddy, stoney, rutted.... Read on >> Celebrate British Home Child Day on September 28th By Rick Roberts Jim Brownell, Member of Provincial Parliament, for Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry led a successful effort to declare an official British Home Child Day in Ontario through the passing of his Private member's Bill. The British Home Child Day Act 2011, received Royal Assent by the Chief Justice of the Province of Ontario, the Honourable Mr. Justice Warren K. Winkler, on June 1, 2011. September 28 of each year will now be.... Read on >> Are You Searching For Michigan Ancestors? By: Shirley Gage Hodges If you have Michigan ancestors there are many sources that will help you find information about them. One of my favorites is.... Read on >> Canadian Historical Anecdotes - Grey Owl (1888-1938) Transcribed by Sandra Roberts Following his death [in 1938], it became clear that the renowned Indian author and naturalist was, in fact, an Englishman named Archibald Stansfeld Belaney who had no native blood whatever... Read on >> "Preservation of The Public Morals" Perth County, Canada West [Ontario] 1859 By Rick Roberts Last month's article about a poster that laid out the rules for the Norfolk County Poor House was a hit with our readers. This month I've included something for those with Perth County, Ontario roots...Read on >> Library and Archives Canada digitizes past issues of the Canada Gazette (1841-1997) Press Release: Library and Archives Canada Today, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) commemorates the 170th anniversary of the Canada Gazette by making accessible the digitized back issues, from 1841 to 1997, on its website dedicated to this... Read on >> FamilySearch Adds 16 Million New Records - Brazil, Canada, Cote d'Ivoire, Czech Republic, Ecuador, and U.S. By Paul Nauta Among the 16 million records added to FamilySearch.org this week, over six million are from the United States, including new collections from California, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, and Vermont. Additionally, five million new Civil Registration and Catholic Church records from Mexico are now available for free viewing at... Read on >> FamilySearch Adds Millions of Records for Five Countries By Paul Nauta FamilySearch.org added millions of new records this week of both Confederate and Union soldiers who served in the American Civil War. Also now available for viewing are newly added notarial records from Canada, church records and civil registrations from Mexico, and miscellaneous records from England. Begin... Read on >> Aye, Aye Captain - British Merchant Navy Archives Reveal Photos of UK's Forgotten 'Fourth Service' By Press Release - findmypast.co.uk One million 20th century Merchant Navy Seamen records are going online for the first time ever, as Britain approaches Merchant Navy Day on Saturday 3rd September. But when asked what the Merchant Navy was, 54% of the British population couldn't answer correctly, even though.... Read on >> Ancestry Provides Free Access to 200 Million Canadian Historic Immigration Records Until Sept 5th By Press Release - Ancestry.ca Today, Ancestry.ca announced that it will be providing free access to the world's largest collection of digitized online immigration records, from August 29 through.... Read on >> FamilySearch Adds 6 Million Records for Ten Countries By Paul Nauta FamilySearch.org added over six million records this week to its free online database. The new collections include seigniorial records from Austria, civil registrations from Chihuahua, Mexico, and probate records from Kentucky, U.S. Also added this week are records from Brazil, Guatemala, Hungary, Peru, Poland, South Africa, and Spain... Read on >> Rules & Regulations for the Norfolk County, Ontario Poor House 1871 By Rick Roberts While digitizing boxes of my personal family history documents I came across a poster that I thought our readers would be interested in it, even those without Norfolk County roots...Read on >> CALL FOR SPEAKERS - Finding Your Great War Ancestors By Toronto Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society and the Canadiana Department of North York Central Library will be co-hosting a one-day workshop on Finding Your Great War Ancestors on March 31, 2012. You are invited to submit proposals for... Read on >> Smugglers' Glen Uncovered West of Dingwall, Scotland By Royal Commission on Ancient Historical Monuments Scotland A local Highland history group have uncovered a hotbed of illicit distilling and smuggling in a remote glen west of Dingwall. While surveying Strathconon glen, volunteers discovered more than 50 bothies where whisky was distilled and stored, alongside evidence of.... Read on >> British TV Series Wants You for New Show: Guess the Relative By Rick Roberts We received an appeal from Dragonfly TV this week. They are asking interested people from all over the world, who have UK ancestry, to contact them and possibly be featured in their first season. This is second appeal, so it may be worthwhile to contact them with your story..... Read on >> Ancestry Expands its U.S. School Yearbook Collection - More than 150 Million New Records By Press Release - Ancestry.ca Ancestry today announced a massive expansion of the world's most extensive searchable collection of school yearbooks available online. The company has added nearly 25,000 new yearbooks to the collection, which now totals over 35,000 and carries 155 million records encompassing the years 1884 to 2009. The U.S. Yearbook Collection includes.... Read on >> British & New Zealand Military Records Added to GenesReunited.co.uk By Press Release - GenesReunited.co.uk To coincide with the 97th anniversary of the outbreak of WW1, UK family history site Genes Reunited have released a variety of military records. From today people interested in tracking down their ancestors from WW1 and the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899 - 1902 can.... Read on >> FamilySearch Adds New Records From Belgium, England, Nicaragua, Peru, Russia and USA By Paul Nauta Along with six million images added to Mexico collections at FamilySearch.org this week, additions were made to collections from six other countries. Browse through newly–added parish register records from Belgium and England, or the new collection of church book records from Russia. Additionally, new records from eight U.S. states: Maryland, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia, are now available at.... Read on >> Scottish Post Office Directories – Have you used them yet? By Ruth Blair PLCGS The National Library of Scotland has put their Post Office Directories online. The time period covered is 1773-1911 and 28 towns and counties in Scotland are represented. There are 694 directories in the.... Read on >> 148,000 New Surrey & Kent (UK) Burial Records to Search on findmypast.co.uk By Press Release - findmypast.co.uk "Great news for anyone with East Surrey or East Kent ancestors: we’ve just published 148,316 new burial records for.... Read on >> OneWorldOneFamily Conference - New Speaker on Polish Jewish Records Added By Rick Roberts Organizers report that OneWorldOneFamily Conference has an additional speaker who will be speaking on Polish Jewish Records. The conference is scheduled for Saturday September 17th, 2011 from 9am to 5pm in Toronto. More than 30 workshops plus a .... Read on >> Dating Edinburgh Photographs Taken by Professional Photographers 1839 - 1939 By Rick Roberts The early years of professional photography represented a time in which photographers were the happy beneficiaries of a booming new business. Most were inundated with customers when they first set up shop in a new location. Eventually demand would level off, causing many photographers to seek greener pastures at a new location. Their frequent moves makes it easier to identify .... Read on >> FamilySearch Adds More New Collections And Images By Paul Nauta Among the thousands of records added to FamilySearch.org this week are new images of testaments (wills) from Cádiz ,...,,Spain. Also, be sure to check out new United States military records for Louisiana and Washington as well as a new collection of North Carolina estate files. Estate files can offer an insightful look at an ancestor's living conditions. Additionally, Canada, Italy, and Poland collections were.... Read on >> FamilySearch Adds 4.3 Million Images This Week By Paul Nauta Of the 4.3 million images added to FamilySearch.org this week, nearly half belong to the Hungary Civil Registration, 1895–1980, collection, which features images of births to 1920, marriages to 1950, and deaths to 1980. New image collections have been added for Austria, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Panama, and the U.S. The new Canadian collection provides a look at 700,000 images of county deed registries from New Brunswick. Begin.... Read on >> Guild of One-Name Studies' Membership Offer at upcoming NZ Family History Fair (or online) By Press Release - The Guild of One-Name Studies Following successful offers made earlier in the year at Family History Fairs in London and York, England, and Colorado, USA, the international Guild of One Name Studies will be making a similar offer at the New Zealand Society of Genealogists' New Zealand Family History fair and online at.... Read on >> UK's National Archives Releases British Railway Employment Records, 1833 - 1963 on Ancestry By Press Release - Ancestry.ca Railway Employment Records are one of the largest and earliest archives of civilian trades in the UK. The records reveal fascinating stories about life on the railways from their early, dangerous beginnings to their heyday as a key component of Britain's Victorian infrastructure, and reflect the significance of the railway companies as huge employers in both towns and country. Many families will find railway ancestors here, and the level of detail in these records makes them a valuable online resource for historians and.... Read on >> FamilySearch Added 1.8 Million New Records and Images Last Week By Paul Nauta Historic records from eight countries have been digitized and added to FamilySearch.org. In addition to 1.8 million new U.S. records, collections from seven other countries were added: Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Mexico, Philippines, and Poland. There are many gems for curious minds, such as.... Read on >> How to save on a Ancestry.co.uk and FindMyPast.com subscriptions By Rick Roberts The August 1st long-weekend was a hot one in Southern Ontario. While cooling off in the house and browsing online genealogy sites on Monday afternoon, I stumbed onto a method to save on Ancestry.co.uk and FindMyPast.com memberships.... Read on >> List of Ontario Land Registry Offices Updated By Rick Roberts Ruth Burkholder of RMB Genealogical Services has updated the list of Ontario Land Registry Offices and their contact information that was published in a previous Global Gazette article. There are.... Read on >> Saskatchewan Birth, Marriage and Death Records Article Updated By Fawne Stratford-Devai Address updates have been added to an earlier article regarding locating vital records for residents of Saskatchewan. The article provides links to similar articles for all Canadian provinces.... Read on >> Find what you need at GlobalGenealogy.com:
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