Family Tree Knots

One question that is periodically brought in the various Canadian related genealogy Facebook groups is "How do I know if I'm a rela...

A hundred years ago today or tomorrow, the date is a little uncertain, my grand-uncle Samuel McKinlay, like many others during the First Wo...

Out of the several current television shows with a primary focus on genealogy 1 I find that TLC's Who Do You Thing You Are? 2 is the m...

As more people come to the party known as family history and genealogy research the majority start their hobby with on-line resources. There...

Much like many of you I too have a family tree hosted on Ancestry . I use that tree for cousin bait and also to let the computers at Ancestr...

One of those sites that have become invaluable to me for locating fairly recent obituaries is the Obituary Daily Times . If you have a subsc...

Many times as we do our research into the lives of our ancestors we come across census entries that cause us to scratch our head in bewilder...