A team in the Faculty of Social Science at Western University in London, Ontario has created a mapping platform that allows researchers to see how the people living in specific neighbourhoods have changed during the last 70 years. The UNI-CEN Canadian Neighbourhood Change Explorer allows researchers to track changes in census areas dating back to 1951. Click on a neighbourhood and you can find population details on everything from age to household income to education and transportation choices.  This screenshot of the UNI-CEN Neighbourhood Change Explorer platform shows the perc ..read more

Legacy Family Tree Webinars continues with its bi-monthly O Canada series, this week with Tools to Research Your French Canadian Ancestors, presented by Johanne Gervais, on Friday, April 19, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. With the right tools, searching for your French Canadian ancestors in Quebec has never been easier. French Canadians are passionate about their ancestral lineage, consequently a large number of repositories exist, both public and private, to help trace your French Canadian ancestors. Although the well-known Drouin Collection is a wonderful source of genealogical data, many more ..read more

The Victoria Genealogical Society in British Columbia will host the virtual DNA seminar, Harness the Power of Genetic Genealogy, on Saturday, April 20, from 9:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific time. There will be four sessions. The fee to attend is $35 for society members and $55 (about US$40) for non-members. Read the session descriptions and speaker biographies and learn about the schedule and registration on the Victoria Genealogical Society’s website. The post Victoria Genealogical Society’s DNA seminar offers four sessions this Saturday appeared first on Genealogy à la carte ..read more

It’s the third week of the month, and that means several branches of Ontario Ancestors will be busy hosting virtual presentations. The topics include online research, Newspapers.com, genetic genealogy, university websites, and the American Revolution. Seven branches and one special interest group will host a free presentation. The Genetic Genealogy special interest group’s webinar is free to society members and $10 for non-members. All are open to the public. The times below are in Eastern time. Monday, April 15, 7:00 p.m. — Sudbury District Branch Doing Family Tree Research in Your Pajamas b ..read more

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog posts LAC’s Vision: What Future for the Past by Allan Greer on Active History. Finding Cemeteries With Your Computer – Part 1 and Part 2 by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter. Let’s hear it from the girls! New project to release women’s voices by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News. What Day was That??? by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree. Contact That Courthouse: It Might Pay Off! by Janine Adams on Organize Your Family History. How to Not Be Overwhelmed at the Archives by Melissa Barker on A Gene ..read more

Next year marks the 200th anniversary of the Peter Robinson Settlers from the Ballyhoura Region in Ireland establishing a new life in what we now know as Peterborough, Ontario. In Ireland, Ballyhoura Development, which is a local non-profit organization, has planned a homecoming from September 21 to 25, 2025. Celebratory plans are starting in Peterborough. In May 1825, nine ships set sail from Cork, Ireland with 2,024 emigrants aboard. Passenger lists from these ships are available on the Trent Valley Archives website. Peter Robinson, who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper ..read more

Saskatoon City Archives has started the task of packing thousands of records, including 450,000 photos, 4,000 feet of shelves, 3,000 linear feet of records, and thousands of maps, plans and blueprints to prepare for the move to its new permanent home. Since 2010, the archives have been held at the Cardinal Crescent location near the airport but will now be housed at the old post office building at 202 Fourth Ave. North, across the street from city hall and the downtown Saskatoon Public Library. Photo: Vincent Groeneveld, Pixabay. According to local radio station 650 CKOM, the largest collectio ..read more

The Archives de Montréal will return this summer to city hall, and on-site research visits will return soon after. As of August 6, researchers will be able to book an appointment to visit the Archives de Montréal’s renovated facilities at city hall in Old Montreal. Photo: Jean Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons. In 2018, Montreal’s archives had to be moved to a temporary location on rue Saint-Denis because city hall and the archives’ vaults were being renovated. Due to the move, the consultation room on Saint-Denis will close May 16. The virtual consultation room (catalogue), however, wi ..read more

All four of Ontario Ancestors branches’ virtual presentations this week are, as usual, free and open to all who register to watch via Zoom. The times are in Eastern time. Monday, April 8, 7:00 p.m. — Oxford County Branch OnLand from a Genealogy Perspective by Ken McKinlay Once we know where our ancestors lived, the next step in our research journey is to see if we can find the land records, such as deeds and even wills. In this presentation, we will take a look at the Ontario Land Property Records Portal, AKA OnLand, to help us locate the documents concerning the properties where our ancestor ..read more

What do you get when you put together one of Canada’s best genealogy speakers with the Chief Historian and Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum? You get a terrific program for family historians, presented by Ken McKinlay and Dr. Tim Cook and hosted by the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa on Saturday, April 13. This is a free hybrid meeting. You may attend in person at Knox Presbyterian Church (Lisgar St. and Elgin St.) in Ottawa or register to watch on Zoom.   Here’s the schedule in Eastern time: 9:00 a.m. Back to Basics: Church R ..read more