VANCOUVER, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) — The Canadian government announced Monday 900,000 U.S. dollars for the creation of a new website documenting the experiences of Chinese settlers, past and present.
The bilingual portal, “Chinese Canadian stories: Uncommon stories from a common past history,” will be created by the University of British Columbia with funding from the Community [...]
Too bad… the “long form” is gone and there will be no useful genealogical data collected and made available from the 2011 Canadian National Household Survey.
Statistics Canada has quietly made major changes to the country’s census in time for the upcoming round of national sampling in 2011. The long census questionnaire that provided information on [...]
The following information was received this morning from Paul Nauta with FamilySearch:
There were over 150 new collections added or enhanced this week at FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch volunteers indexed over 120 million records — over 300 million new names — from original source documents to accomplish this great feat. The massive release was announced [...]
The following small databases were recently added to the Family Tree Connection database:
ALABAMA
Alabama’s White Regiments during the Spanish-American War - Southern Martyrs. A History of Alabama’s White Regiments during the Spanish-American War, Touching Incidentally on the Experiences of The Entire First Division of the Seventh Army Corps. By Seargeant M. Koenigsberg.
Birmingham High Schools [...]
REGINA [Saskatchewan]— The provincial government is looking at how to better preserve Saskatchewan’s 3,500 known cemeteries and burial sites, some of which are overgrown or even near-forgotten.
Appointed to lead a review is Al Dwyer, who previously served as registrar of cemeteries in his former role with the province’s consumer protection branch.
“I think there’s recognition [...]
The following teaser is from an article in the November 3, 2009 edition of the Victoria News, about the loss of a $17,000 annual grant by the Victoria Genealogical Society. It’s feared that their library may be in serious trouble without the cash…
And when a library closes, Heather Jones says everybody’s stories go with it.
Jones [...]
The following announcement is from Anastasia Tyler, PR and Events Manager at Ancestry.com:
The Ancestry World Archives Project is a collaborative effort that has allowed thousands of people around the world help to preserve history that might otherwise be lost. All records indexed through this effort are available for free to the [...]
A well known local genealogist and researcher, good friend to many people in this area and in particular to those of French Canadian and Acadian descent, recently received a truly distinctive honor.
Frank Binette of Laconia has been designated Genealogiste Emerite (Genealogist Emeritus) by the Federation Quebecoise Des Societes De Genealogie based in Quebec, Canada, for [...]
Diana Lynn Tibert wrote a very interesting and informative column for the October 3, 2009 Times & Transcript in which she gives information on doing adoption research in Canada. She includes some online links that will be helpful to anyone searching for Canadian Adoption Records. Following is a teaser:
Laws keeping records sealed indefinitely are slowly [...]
Have you ever tried dowsing for graves? There is an art to it, but I’d swear that it works. There’s an interesting article in the Simcoe [Ontario] Reformer dealing with finding graves at a former poor house site. Following is a teaser.
A woman in touch with the energy of the dead has determined what [...]
28 September 2009: Volunteers with Rhode Island roots will be excited about the new indexing projects this week. The Rhode Island 1905 and 1935 State Censuses were added. New international projects for Argentina, Germany, Philippines, Spain, and the U.K. were also added.
Note: the links within the charts won’t work as they are just images [...]
The following news release was written by dynastree.com staff.
See my comments and direct links to the Foreign language sites at the end of the news release.
Hamburg, August 11, 2009 – The family network dynastree.com features maps for showing the distribution of one’s surname for eight countries at the moment. Such maps are not only available [...]
The following news about Family Search Indexing was just received from Paul Nauta:
Significant updates were made recently to the FamilySearch Indexing application and Web site. Batch Sharing seems to be the most popular of the new features. Following are brief descriptions of the updates:
Batch Sharing. This exciting new feature appeals to indexers who enjoy [...]
A project to recognize two of the Mennonite church and local community’s most historically significant pioneer citizens and one overlooked minister is underway by the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario Chapter of the Twenty.
Society President Larry Rittenhouse said two memorial grave markers to honour Valentine Kratz, the church’s first minister, from 1801 to 1824, [...]
Brock Dittrick and his family don’t go camping during the summer. Instead they pack up the car and go back in time.
For 29 years, Dittrick has taken part in re-enactments of historical events, one year behind the 30 years his wife, Karen, has bewb doing the same thing.
It was how the two met, and now [...]
