Discovering My Roots

23 July 2009
The following was written by Library and Archives Canada:
New Version of the Canadian Naturalization 1915-1932 Database Ottawa, July 22, 2009 - Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Canadian Naturalization 1915-1932 online database. It now includes the names of 206,731 individuals who applied for [...]

31 March 2009

The Archives of Ontario is opening its new, purpose-built facility in north Toronto on April 2nd at 8:30am. The old building at 77 Grenville St., in downtown Toronto will close for its final time at 5:00pm on Thursday, March 26th.
The new address for the Archives of Ontario is:
 

Archives of Ontario
134 Ian Macdonald Blvd,
Toronto, Ontario
M7A [...]

15 January 2009 - More on 2009 Tour
To get the latest status of the digitizing and indexing of the censuses and Canadian Passenger Lists you may want to subscribe to “Gordon Watts Reports.” His latest e-zine summarizes the status of the digitizing and indexing of the 1851 through 1911 and 1916 censuses and [...]

11 November 2008

The following announcement was written by The Generations Network, the parent company of Ancestry.ca:
600,000 records of our World War One heroes, including famous Canadians - John McCrae, Tommy Douglas and Frederick Banting
(Toronto, ON – November 5, 2008)  Between 1914-1918, more than 600,000 Canadian men, most untrained civilians, braved foreign soil to join the [...]

11 November 2008

The following announcement was written by Library And Archives Canada:
Partnership allows unprecedented online access to Canadian historical records
Ottawa, November 10, 2008 – Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce a collaborative partnership with Canada’s leading online family history website, Ancestry.ca, which will allow the two organizations to provide unprecedented online access [...]

7 November 2008
According to the National Archival Law adopted in December 2001, foreigners have the same rights to access and use of the national archival records and the same obligations as Ukrainian citizens.
The archival records are available to the public from the time of their acquisition; however, if the documents contain personal information, then access [...]

26 October 2008
The Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, (In Ukrainian TSentralnyy Derzhavnyi Istorychnyi Arkhiv Ukrainy, u misti L’vovi), is also known by its acronym TsDIAL (pronounced Tseh-dee-al). There is over [...]

24 October 2008
An invaluable site for doing Ukrainian and Polish genealogical research is www.halgal.com. The creator of the site, Matthew Bielawa outlines the purpose of this site as follows:
“This website provides general information on Halychyna/Eastern Galicia, a region that is often misunderstood or ignored [...]