Monthly Archives: June 2025

Québec Genealogical eSociety to host 14 free webinars

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Gail Dever

For the next five months, from July 17 to November 20, the Québec Genealogical eSociety has scheduled eight webinars in English and six webinars in French on a variety of interesting topics. They are all free and open to the … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — June 28, 2025

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog posts“Genealogy” and “census” are missing in the LAC 2025-26 Departmental Plan by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. The Underground Railroad in Canada Helped Thousands Find Freedom by Laurie Bradshaw on FamilySearch … Continue reading →

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Free access to Canadian collections on Ancestry

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Gail Dever

For Canada Day, Ancestry is offering free access to key Canadian collections for a limited time. The free access period ends on July 2 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time. These key collections include Ontario marriages, 1826-1942, and Quebec church records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968. … Continue reading →

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New parish and electoral records on Findmypast

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Gail Dever

This week, Findmypast added baptism, marriage and burial records from Cheshire, England, as well as more than a million British electoral registers. UK Electoral Registers & Companies House DirectorsThere are now 1,081,193 records added to Findmypast’s existing collection of British … Continue reading →

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Canadian Armed Forces is looking for families of four soldiers who went MIA during the Korean War

Posted on June 26, 2025 by Gail Dever

The Canadian Armed Forces is looking for the families of four Canadian soldiers who went missing in action more than 70 years ago in Korea. You may be able to help. Family members of Canadian soldiers missing in action can … Continue reading →

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Ontario’s privacy commissioner issues guardrails for police using investigative genetic genealogy

Posted on June 26, 2025 by Gail Dever

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) released on Tuesday guardrails for police use of investigative genetic genealogy. This first-in-Canada public resource marks an important step towards proper governance of this new and emerging technology. Investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) is a technique … Continue reading →

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25% off an annual Genealogy Quebec subscription

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Gail Dever

Bonne fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste ! Happy St. Jean Baptiste! To mark Quebec’s national holiday, taking place today, Genealogy Quebec is offering 25 percent off a one-year subscription. Instead of paying $140, you’ll pay $105 (about US$77). To take advantage … Continue reading →

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LiveMemory™ now available on MyHeritage

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Gail Dever

MyHeritage’s LiveMemory™ that transforms still photos into video clips is now available on the MyHeritage website. Last November, they released LiveMemory on the MyHeritage mobile app, and now it’s also available on the website. As a special gift to their … Continue reading →

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Warning: Findmypast’s new ship passenger lists and naturalization records could send you down the research rabbit hole

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Gail Dever

Bear with me. I tried to publish the news about Findmypast’s latest records a couple of days ago, but I was sidetracked by a discovery I made about my grandmother’s cousin whose name appears on a Lusitania passenger list in … Continue reading →

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Save up to 50% on a Findmypast subscription

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Gail Dever

Until June 29, Findmypast is offering up to 50 percent off its one, three, and 12-month subscriptions. A 12-month subscription is 50 percent off, while the one-month and three-month subscriptions are discounted by 30 percent. Jen Baldwin, Research Specialist at … Continue reading →

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