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Was your family member a "British Home Child"?

Submitted by OttLibGenealogy on April 5, 2013 - 10:34am

 

Uprooted

Uprooted

Over 120,000 impoverished children came to Canada as domestic servants and agricultural labourers from all parts of the British Isles between the 1860's and the 1940's.

Only now are many Canadians learning that a family member was a Home Child.

British Library Creates a "National Memory" of Online Newspapers

Submitted by OttLibGenealogy on June 1, 2011 - 11:45am

The British Library plans to digitise 40 million pages of newspapers from its vast historical collection at Colindale in north London. They will be accessible online for a "modest" fee. Read more....

courtesy of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

The Death of Google News Archive

Submitted by OttLibGenealogy on May 25, 2011 - 11:22am

The death of Google News Archive affects future access to digitized issues of the Ottawa Citizen from 1853 to 1990. For a time, we'll still be able to search for birth, marriage and death notices and articles on our ancestors and explore the social context of their lives. However Google will not filling in the gaps in coverage or improving the functionality of the site.  Read on....

How much money did Charles Dickens leave when he died?

Submitted by OttLibGenealogy on August 13, 2010 - 3:50pm

About 80,000 pounds (that'd be about 7 million pounds today).  This fascinating tidbit comes from Ancestry's new database, England & Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills & Administrations), 1861 - 1941.  The Calendar is an index to over 6 million British wills.  Entries will give you the full name of the deceased, date and place of death, the registry where probate was issued, the size of the estate, and sometimes even the beneficiary of the will.  Of obvious use for genealogists, the database also just makes for fun reading.  Why did the

Online source for recent death notices

Submitted by OttLibGenealogy on August 9, 2010 - 11:30am

Searching for an obituary but not sure of the date?  Finding death notices in the Ottawa Citizen is easy if you know the date of death: the Main Library holds microfilm copies of the Citizen and the old Ottawa Journal from the 1800s to date, so you can browse the papers for a few days after the death date and if an notice was printed, you'll find it.  It gets trickier, though, if you don't know the exact date of death, since the microfilm is not indexed, and browsing through months or years of it is not very practical.  However, if the death is relatively recent, there's an e

London Lives

Submitted by OttLibGenealogy on July 12, 2010 - 11:40am

London Lives is a fascinating new online archive of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, focusing on "plebeian Londoners".  It covers the years 1690 - 1800 and contains 240,000 manuscripts, including criminal records, coroners' reports, workhouse registers, court orders, etc.  All records are full-text and fully searchable.  You can search by name if you are tracing an ancestor, or just

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"When England play, you don't pay"

Submitted by OttLibGenealogy on June 17, 2010 - 11:01am

FindMyPast ( www.findmypast.co.uk ) is a wonderful website for UK genealogy research.  It has a complete 1841 - 1911 census collection, BMD index from 1837 - 2006, parish records from 1538 - , passenger lists, military records, and more.  Ordinarily, you can search the indexes for free, but have to pay to view full records.  But the folks at FindMyPast are obviously soccer (sorry, football) fans as well as genealogists: they're offering FindMyPast free during every England World Cup match.&

New digitized records on Canadian Genealogy Centre

Submitted by OttLibGenealogy on May 25, 2010 - 6:11pm

Ocean Arrivals, 1919 - 1924 (Form 30A) is now available in digitized format on the Canadian Genealogy Centre pages of the Library and Archives Canada website.   This collection consists of over 300 reels of mic

Genealogy and the Family Virtual Exhibit

Submitted by OttLibGenealogy on May 17, 2010 - 10:52am

Welcome!

Submitted by OttLibGenealogy on May 17, 2010 - 10:41am

Welcome to our Genealogy Blog!  Genealogy research, especially online, is constantly changing and expanding.  The genealogy enthusiasts here at OPL are eager to share tips, tricks, and new sites and sources with you.  Stay posted!

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