Links of Interest

This is a collection of sites and pages from my various presentations, along with some sites that I've personally found to be useful in my research. Of course, these aren't all the sites I use but more of a "highlight reel". Hopefully some of these sites will help you in your own research.

Resource Pages: 

First World War: Researching a Canadian Soldier of the Great War

Second World War: Researching the Canadians Who Served

Ontario Land records: Where are they Online? 

1931 Census of Canada Resources

Microsoft Word Templates

Template for England and Wales GRO Birth Record Images

Template for England and Wales GRO Death Record Images

 

Census Gotchas

• 1841 census of England: The enumerator was supposed to round the ages of those older than 15 down to a multiple of 5 (but some didn’t).
• 1841 census of Scotland: The enumerator was supposed to round the ages of those older than 15 down to a multiple of 5 (but some didn’t).
• 1890 Federal census of USA: Majority of the records were lost in a fire in 1921.
• Pre-1901 census of Ireland: Majority of the records were destroyed by the government or lost in the 1922 fire at the Public Records Office in Dublin.

Research and Family Tree Genealogy Sites

• Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.ca/
• FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/
• Findmypast: https://www.findmypast.com/
• Genes Reunited: https://www.genesreunited.co.uk
• MyHeritage: https://www.myheritage.com/
• The Genealogist: https://www.thegenealogist.com/
• WikiTree: https://www.wikitree.com/

 

Canada

Library and Archives Canada

• Main Page: https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives.html
• A to Z research guides and tools: https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/research-help/all-tools-guides.html 
• Censuses: https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/research-help/genealogy-family-history/censuses.html
• Federal Divorce Index: https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/research-help/genealogy-family-history/birth-marriage-death-records.html
• Home Children: https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/research-help/genealogy-family-history/immigration/home-children.html
• Military History: https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/research-help/military-history.html
• Parish and related birth, marriage and death records: https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/research-help/genealogy-family-history/birth-marriage-death-records/parish.html
• Archived Microform Digitization Projects: https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/index-e.html

  

• Internet Archives copy from Jul 2022 of Library and Archives Canada Main Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20220715023037/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/home.aspx

 Canadian Research Knowledge Network

• Canadiana Main Page: https://www.canadiana.ca/
• Héritage Main Page: https://heritage.canadiana.ca/
• Parish Registers: https://heritage.canadiana.ca/search/?q0.0=%22parish+registers%22
• War Diaries of the Second World War: https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_133700
• Upper Canada Land Books: https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_205068

Provincial Sites

• Newfoundland’s Grand Banks: http://ngb.chebucto.org/
• P.E.I. GenWeb: https://www.islandregister.com/pegenweb.html
• Nova Scotia Archives: https://archives.novascotia.ca/
• Nova Scotia Births, Marriages, and Deaths: https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/
• Provincial Archives of New Brunswick: https://www.gnb.ca/en/topic/your-gov/data-records/archives.html
• Quebec’s Bibliotheque nationale: https://www.banq.qc.ca/?language_id=1
• Archives of Ontario: https://www.archives.gov.on.ca/
• Manitoba Vital Statistics Agency: https://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Query.php
• Saskatchewan Vital Statistics Genealogy Search: http://genealogy.ehealthsask.ca/vsgs_srch.aspx
• Alberta Birth, Marriage, and Death Records: https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/how-to/find-birth-marriage-and-death-records
• BC Archives Genealogy Search: https://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy
• Yukon Genealogy: http://yukongenealogy.com/

Genealogical Societies

• Family History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador: https://www.fhsnl.ca/
• Prince Edward Island Genealogical Society: https://peigs.ca/
• Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia: https://www.novascotiaancestors.ca/
• New Brunswick Genealogical Society: https://www.nbgs.ca/
• Québec Genealogical eSociety: https://genquebec.com/en
• Ontario Ancestors (Ontario Genealogical Society): https://ogs.on.ca/
• Manitoba Genealogical Society: https://mbgenealogy.com/
• Saskatchewan Genealogy Society: https://saskgenealogy.com/
• Alberta Genealogy Society: https://www.abgenealogy.ca/
• British Columbia Genealogical Society: https://www.bcgs.ca/
• British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa: https://www.bifhsgo.ca/

Law in Canada

• British Columbia Historical Statutes: https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/content/hstats/?xsl=/templates/browse.xsl
• British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867: https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/
• CanLII: https://www.canlii.org/
• Statutes of Ontario (Osgoode Digital Commons): https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/statutes/

Miscellaneous Sites

• Access to Information and Personal Information Online Request Service (ATIP): https://atip-aiprp.tbs-sct.gc.ca/
• CanadaGenWeb: https://canadagenweb.org/
• Canadian Baptist Archives: https://mcmasterdivinity.ca/canadian-baptist-archives/
• Mennonite Heritage Archives: https://www.mharchives.ca/
• Presbyterian Church in Canada Archives: https://presbyterianarchives.ca/
• Quakers in Canada Archives: https://quaker.ca/archives/
• United Church of Canada Archives: https://www.unitedchurcharchives.ca/
• United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada: https://uelac.ca/
• Wesleyan Methodist Baptismal Registers 1825-1910: https://bowergenealogy.ca/resources/methodist/index.html

 

British Isles

Archives and General Resources

• Archives Wales (links archives in Wales): https://archives.wales/
• GENUKI: https://www.genuki.org.uk/
• National Archives of Ireland: https://nationalarchives.ie/
• National Library of Ireland: https://www.nli.ie/
  
• National Library of Scotland: https://www.nls.uk/
• National Records of Scotland: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/
  
• Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI): https://www.proni.gov.uk/
• The National Archives (Kew): https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

England and Wales

• Information about England and Wales Censuses, 1801-1911:  https://www.1911census.org.uk/
• Census schedules and listings, 1801-1831: an introduction and guide (Wall, Woollard, Moring): https://www1.essex.ac.uk/history/documents/research/RT2_Wall_2012.pdf
• FreeBMD: https://www.freebmd.org.uk/
• FreeReg: https://www.freereg.org.uk/
  
• General Register Office (GRO) of England and Wales: https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
• Online Parish Clerks: https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/online_parish_clerk
• The Parish Registers of England (by J. Charles Cox): https://archive.org/details/parishregisterso00coxjuoft/page/n7/mode/2up
  
• University of Leicester Historical Directories Collection: https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/historical-directories

 Ireland

• 1901 and 1911 Censuses: https://nationalarchives.ie/collections/search-the-census/
• Anglican Record Project: https://www.ireland.anglican.org/about/rcb-library/anglican-record-project
• Catholic Parish Registers: https://registers.nli.ie/
• Church of Ireland List of Parish Registers: https://www.ireland.anglican.org/about/rcb-library/list-of-parish-registers
  
• General Register Office (Northern Ireland): https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/go-groni-online
• Index to the Townlands, 1901 (Irish Genealogical Research Society): https://www.irishancestors.ie/index-of-townlands-1901-87
  
• IreAtlas Townland Database: https://thecore.com/seanruad/
  
• Ireland Emigration Database: https://www.dippam.ac.uk/ied
  
• Ireland Reaching Out: https://irelandxo.com/
  
• Irish Ancestors (John Grenham): https://www.johngrenham.com/
  
• Irish Genealogical Research Society: https://www.irishancestors.ie/
  
• Irish Manuscripts Commission (out of print publications): https://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/product-category/imc-digital-editions/?action=digitisation_backlist
  
• IrishGenealogy.ie: https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/
• Military Archives: https://www.militaryarchives.ie/
  
• Registry of Deeds Index Project Ireland: https://irishdeedsindex.net/
• RootsIreland: https://www.rootsireland.ie/
• SWilson.info: Registration District Map Browse: https://www.swilson.info/regdistmap.php
  
• Ulster Historical Foundation: https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com/
• Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland: https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/

Scotland

• Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae (succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland): https://archive.org/search?query=Fasti%20Ecclesiae%20Scoticanae
• Gazetteer for Scotland: https://www.scottish-places.info/
• Old Parish Registers Coverage Page (NLS): https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/learning-and-events/research-guides/coverage-of-the-old-parish-registers/
• Registers of births, marriages, and deaths, 1855-1875, 1881, 1891; and general index, 1855-1956 (FamilySearch): https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/79310
• SAFHS Inventory of Published pre-1841 Population Listings: https://www.safhs.org.uk/populationlists.php
• Scottish Indexes: https://www.scottishindexes.com/default.aspx
• ScotlandsPeople: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
• Search for Scotland Post Office directories (Internet Archive): https://archive.org/search?query=scotland+post+office
• The Scottish Association of Family History Societies: https://www.safhs.org.uk/index.php
• The Scottish Emigration Database: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/search.html

 

Blogs

• Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/
• Anglo-Celtic Connections (John D. Reid): https://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/
• Family Tree Knots: https://familytreeknots.blogspot.com/
• FamilySearch Blog: https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/
• Genea-Musings (Randy Seaver): https://www.geneamusings.com/
• Genealogy à la carte (Gail Dever): https://genealogyalacarte.ca/
• Past Presence (Linda Yip): https://past-presence.com/
• Scottish GENES (Chris Paton): https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/

 

Books

• Evidence Explained: https://www.evidenceexplained.com/
• Global Genealogy (Publisher): https://globalgenealogy.ca/
• Google Books: https://books.google.com/
• Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://www.hathitrust.org/
• Internet Archive: https://archive.org/
  
• WorldCat: https://search.worldcat.org/ 

 

Cemeteries and Graves

• Billion Graves: https://billiongraves.com/
• CanadaGenWeb’s Cemetery Project: https://cemetery.canadagenweb.org/
• Canadian Headstones: https://canadianheadstones.ca/wp/
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission: https://www.cwgc.org/
• Deceased Online (UK): https://www.deceasedonline.com/
• Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/
• Interment.net: https://www.interment.net/Default.htm
• National RCMP Grave Discovery Database: https://www.rcmpgraves.com/database/search.html

DNA

• 23andMe: https://www.23andme.com/en-ca/
• Ancestry DNA: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/ 
• DNA Painter: https://dnapainter.com/
• FamilyTreeDNA: https://www.familytreedna.com/
• GEDmatch: https://www.gedmatch.com/
• International Society of Genetic Genealogy: https://isogg.org/  
• Living DNA: https://livingdna.com/
• MyHeritage DNA: https://www.myheritage.com/dna 
• Shared cM Project: https://dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4

Education and Certification 

• Association of Professional Genealogists: https://www.apgen.org/
• Board for Certification of Genealogists: https://www.bcgcertification.org/
• ConferenceKeeper: https://conferencekeeper.org/
• International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen℠): https://icapgen.org/
• International Institute of Genealogical Studies: https://genealogicalstudies.com/
• Legacy Family Tree Webinars: https://familytreewebinars.com/
• Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies: https://www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/centreforlifelonglearning/genealogy/

 

Maps 

• Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (United States): https://publications.newberry.org/ahcb/
• Canadian County Atlas Digital Project: https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/
• David Rumsey Map Collection: https://www.davidrumsey.com/
• HERITAGE P-INdex (Ontario): https://ontario.heritagepin.com/
• Island Imagined (PEI): https://islandimagined.ca/
• McNiff Maps (Early Ontario Loyalist Maps): https://uelac.org/st-lawrence/mcniff-maps/
• National Library of Scotland Map images: https://maps.nls.uk/
• Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Digital Collections: https://collections.leventhalmap.org/
• Ontario Historical County Maps Project: https://utoronto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=8cc6be34f6b54992b27da17467492d2f
• Ontario Map a Topographic Map: https://www.lioapplications.lrc.gov.on.ca/MakeATopographicMap/index.html?viewer=Make_A_Topographic_Map.MATM&locale=en-CA
• Ontario Patent Plan (Archives of Ontario RG 1-100) Access index: https://utoronto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=19a4eb4d06ca428697ee44e70ba23005

 

Newspapers

• British Columbia Historical Newspapers: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers
• British Newspaper Archive*: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
• Bruce County (Ontario) Historical Newspapers: https://newspapers.brucemuseum.ca/
• GenealogyBank: https://www.genealogybank.com/
• Google Historical Newspaper Archives: https://news.google.com/newspapers
• Huron County (Ontario) Digitized Newspaper Collection: https://www.huroncountymuseum.ca/digitized-newspapers/
• Irish Newspaper Archives: https://irishnewsarchive.com/
• Isle of Man Newspapers (1792-1960): https://www.imuseum.im/newspapers/
• Newspapers.com: https://www.newspapers.com/
• NewspaperArchive: https://newspaperarchive.com/
• Newspaper Finder: https://newspaperfinder.com/
• NYS Historial Newspapers (New York, USA): https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/
• Old Fulton New York Post Cards (Newspapers): https://fultonhistory.com/
• Our Ontario Newspaper Holdings: https://news.ourontario.ca/search
• Paper of Record: https://paperofrecord.hypernet.ca/default.asp
• Papers Past (New Zealand): https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers
• Peel’s Prairie Provinces: https://archive.org/details/peel/
• The Ancestor Hunt: https://theancestorhunt.com/newspaper-research-links.html
• The Gazette: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/
  
• Trove (Australia): https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/
• Welsh Newspapers (National Library of Wales): https://newspapers.library.wales/

*Available through Findmypast depending on your Findmypast subscription

 

Obituaries

• InMemoriam: https://www.inmemoriam.ca/
• Legacy: https://www.legacy.com/
• Obituary Daily Times: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~obituary/index.html
• Remembering.ca: https://www.remembering.ca/
• Ryerson Index (Australia): https://www.ryersonindex.org/
• Saskatoon Obituary List: https://spldatabase.saskatoonlibrary.ca/internet/OBIQuery.htm 

 

Passenger and Ship Lists

• Bremen Passenger Lists: http://www.passengerlists.de/
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: https://www.immigrantships.net/
• Immigrants before 1865 (Library and Archives Canada): https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/collection/research-help/genealogy-family-history/immigration/immigrants-before-1865.html
• Lloyd's Register of Ships online: https://heritage.lrfoundation.org.uk/lloyds-register-of-ships-online
• Naval Marine Archive Ships Database: https://ships.navalmarinearchive.com/
• Peter Robinson Ships' List: https://nineships1825.com/peter-robinson-ships-list-1825/
• Ships List (WayBack Machine copy 5 Aug 2024): https://web.archive.org/web/20240805101250/https://www.theshipslist.com/

 

Various Other Sites

• AGATHA - State Archives of Belgium online search: https://agatha.arch.be/en/  
• American Ancestors: https://www.americanancestors.org/
• Archives of New Zealand: https://www.archives.govt.nz/
• ArkivDigital (Sweden): https://www.arkivdigital.net/
• Berlin Address Directories 1799-1970: https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/berliner-adressbuecher/
• Daughters of the American Revolution: https://www.dar.org/
• Ancestors Portal (Italian civil registers): https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/?lang=en
• JewishGen: https://www.jewishgen.org/
• Meyers Gazetteer (Germany): https://www.meyersgaz.org/ 
• National Archives of Australia: https://www.naa.gov.au/
• Regnal Date Converter for UK Monarchs: https://www.bosburyhistoryresource.org.uk/DD/regnal-year-converter.html
• The Ancestor Hunt: https://theancestorhunt.com/
• WieWasWie (Netherlands): https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/ 

[Updated: 17 May 2026]