Discovering My Roots

29 October 2008
The following announcement was written by Ancestry.ca:
Ancestry.ca launches pre-telephone Canadian City and Area Directories, 1819-1899
(Toronto, ON – October 28th, 2008) In a world-first, Ancestry.ca today launched online the fully indexed Canada City and Area Directories, 1819-1899, which feature the names and addresses of more than 5.2 million people who lived in Canada during [...]

28 October 2008
Changing Web Page Text Size
How often have you encountered small type size on a web page and had trouble reading it. There is a simple solution to this problem which allows youto zoom in and magnify what you are reading.

To zoom in, press and hold down the CTRL (CONTROL) key while pressing the [...]

28 October 2008
Census Records
Census Records For Western Canada 1881 - 1901
Census records provide one with the list of people who were living together on census day. Nominal census data was been taken in the years that end [...]

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 [...]

18 October 2008
Do You Have Your Long Form Birth Certificate?
By Jim Onyschuk
Are you planning to do genealogical research in Ukraine? Then you should have a copy of your Long Form Birth Certificate, especially if you are seeking information from a vital-statistics or civil-registry office, known as a RAHS Office. Here you could request birth, marriage [...]

19 October 2008
This stuff should be outlawed. A certain web site lies to you in an attempt to sell you some worthless anti-virus software.
I recently visited a new web site I had not seen before. A pop-up window appeared and warned that my computer system might be infected with a virus. It asked [...]

18 October 2008
Obtaining Canadian and American Vital Records
Vital records are the best places to look for dates of events such as births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. In addition, they often give information such as [...]

17 October 2008
Using Gazetteers to Construct a Village Description
By Jim Onyschuk
I had never heard the term “Gazetteer” until I started my genealogical pursuits. I read that if you wanted to find the records of your ancestor’s village, you needed to consult a gazetteer. For example, suppose the village you were searching was called Biala. You [...]

16 October 2008
Genealogical tour to Western Ukraine

The Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group (TUGG) www.torugg.org is hosting a genealogical tour to Western Ukraine in June of 2009. If  you  wish to join us, here are the particulars.
The “Discover Your Roots Tour” runs from June 5 to June 22, 2009. For complete details and how to register [...]