A Legacy Family Tree Webinars membership at full price is a very good deal. At half price, it’s a fabulous deal! In celebration of their fifth successful 24-hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon and for having set new records of the number of genealogists watching the webinars, Legacy Family Tree Webinars is offering a one-year membership for just US$25 (about CDN$35) — down from US$49.95. A membership provides access to all 2,100+ classes and 8,400+ syllabus pages. It also gives you access to the members-only series, “The Best of Elizabeth Shown Mills: Genealogy Problem Solving.” This discount off ..read more

Thanks to John Reid’s blog post on Anglo-Celtic Connections, I learned yesterday morning that Ancestry has added Ontario death registrations for the year 1950. Subscribers can now explore more than 43,000 newly added Ontario death registrations. These records are from the Archives of Ontario. I check Ancestry’s new and updated collections almost daily, but I overlooked this one because there’s a wee, but significant, typo in the name of the collection. The updated collection, Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1949, should actually say, 1869-1950, and I expect that will be corr ..read more

Four of Ontario Ancestors’ branches will host a free virtual meeting this week, and they are all open to the public. The Toronto Branch’s meeting, featuring two presentations, is hybrid, so you can choose to attend in person or watch online. The following times are in Eastern time. Monday, April 22, 7:30 p.m. — Toronto Branch When Family Treasures Turn Out to be Genealogical Road Signs by Marian Press Leveraging Handwriting Technology in Genealogy by Alison Lau Alison Lau, General Manager, Canada, for Ancestry.com, will deliver the feature presentation. She will provide an overview of how Anc ..read more

Kudos to the board of directors at the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) for spending considerable time this winter developing a strategic plan for the next two years. Double kudos to BIFHSGO for publicly sharing their re-affirmed mission, vision and values, along with the goals they hope to attain in 2024-2026, on the About Us section of their website. Their work may help inspire other genealogical societies to update or develop their own goals. BIFHSGO’s goals include the following: Increase partnerships with other genealogy organizations to share informatio ..read more

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog posts More collections added to FamilySearch Labs by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: April 2024 by Carlyn Osborn on The Signal. Exploring New Hampshire Newspapers in Chronicling America by Joanna Colclough on Headlines & Heroes. Tax Records are Better than Early Census Records by Rick T. Wilson on My Family Pattern. Dutch Genealogy News for April 2024 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy. BCG Announces First Certified Genetic Genealogist by Jean Atkinson Andrews on BCG Blog. Leaving t ..read more

The University of Winnipeg’s German-Canadian Studies yesterday announced that its Father and Son project received a three-year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the country’s federal funding agency for research in history. Edward Henseler, former agronomist from Cologne, Germany, and his five-year-old son, Ulric, in Saint-Thomas-de-Caxton, Quebec, 1962. Source: Library and Archives Canada, PA-186362.  The grant will fund about half a dozen undergraduate and graduate research assistants. These researchers will dig into a trove of memoirs, autobi ..read more

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