Links of Interest

This is a collection of sites and pages from my various presentations.Hopefully some of these sites will help you in your own research.

Syllabus: 

Doing Family Tree Research in Your Pajamas for the Ottawa, Public Library, April 11, 2019
Researching in Your PJs for Ontario Ancestors, March 28, 2020
 

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? 

 

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.

General Record Collection sites:

Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.ca (and also .com, .co.uk, .com.au)

Findmypast: https://www.findmypast.com/

FamilySearch: https://familysearch.org/

MyHeritage: https://www.myheritage.com/

Canadian:

Alberta Genealogical Society: https://www.abgenealogy.ca/

Archives of Ontario: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/index.aspx

British Columbia Archives Genealogy: http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy

Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia: https://novascotiaancestors.ca/

Library and Archives Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/

Manitoba Vital Statistics: http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca//Query.php

Newfoundland’s Grand Bank: http://ngb.chebucto.org/

Provincial Archives of New Brunswick: https://archives.gnb.ca/Archives/?culture=en-CA

Nova Scotia Archives: https://archives.novascotia.ca/

Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics: https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/

P.E.I. Archives and Libraries: https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/topic/libraries-and-archives

Prince Edward Island Genealogical Society: http://peigs.ca/

Saskatchewan Vital Statistics: http://genealogy.ehealthsask.ca/vsgs_srch.aspx

The Island Register: http://www.islandregister.com/

British Isles:

1901/1911 Irish Census: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/

FreeBMD: https://www.freebmd.org.uk/

GenUKI: https://www.genuki.org.uk/

Irish Genealogy: https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/

Maps of Scotland: https://maps.nls.uk/

National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Online Parish Clerks: https://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/OPC.html

Post Office Street Directories (Scotland): https://www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI): https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni

RootsIreland: https://www.rootsireland.ie/

Scottish parish, civil, and census records: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

UK BMD records (General Register Office): https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

Ulster Historical Foundation: https://www.ancestryireland.com/

Cemeteries:

BillionGraves: https://billiongraves.com/

CanadaGenWeb’s Cemetery Project: http://cemetery.canadagenweb.org/

Canadian Headstone Photo Project: https://canadianheadstones.com/

Commonwealth War Graves Commission: https://www.cwgc.org/

DeceasedOnline: http://www.deceasedonline.com/

Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/

Interment.net: http://interment.net/

Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid: http://ocfa.islandnet.com/

Obituaries:

Inmemorian.ca: http://www.inmemoriam.ca/

Legacy: https://www.legacy.com/

ObitsArchive: http://www.obitsarchive.com/

Obituary Daily times (GEN-OBIT): http://sites.rootsweb.com/~obituary/

Telegraph-Journal (New Brunswick): https://obituaries.telegraphjournal.com/telegraph-journal/obituaries/

Your Life Moments: http://yourlifemoments.ca/

Newspapers:

British Columbia Historical Newspapers: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers

British Newspaper Archive: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

Elephind.com: https://www.elephind.com/

Genealogy Bank: https://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/

Google News Newspaper Archive: http://news.google.com/newspapers

NewspaperArchive.com: https://newspaperarchive.com/

Newspapers.com: http://www.newspapers.com/

Our Ontario Newspaper Indexes: http://www.ourontario.ca/holdings/news.html

Paper of Record: https://paperofrecord.hypernet.ca/default.asp

Peel’s Prairie Provinces: http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/newspapers/

Trove (Australia newspapers): https://trove.nla.gov.au/

Welsh Newspapers Online: https://newspapers.library.wales/

Online Books:

Google Books: https://books.google.ca/

Internet Archive: https://archive.org/

WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/

Search Engines:

Google: https://www.google.ca/

Microsoft Bing: https://www.bing.com

Yahoo: https://ca.yahoo.com/

Social Networking:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/

Blogs:

Ancestry: https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry

Anglo-Celtic Connections (John D. Reid): https://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/

Scotish GENES (Chris Paton): https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/

Family Tree Knots: https://familytreeknots.blogspot.ca/

Genea-Musings (Randy Seaver): https://www.geneamusings.com/

Genealogy à la carte (Gail Dever): https://genealogyalacarte.ca/

Collaborative Family Tree sites:

WikiTree: https://www.wikitree.com/