FamilyTreeKnots

First of all, I want to give my heartfelt thanks to all those wonderful genealogy and family history researchers out who unselfishly answer genealogy related questions at in-person events and in the online world. Especially in the online world, quite often there is no thanks or acknowledgement of your time and effort to provide good answers. I see you and thank you for all yo...

FamilySearch's Full-Text Search is a real game changer when it comes to finding records that we might not have come across in the past. The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwriting Recognition Technology tools that create the transcriptions used by Full-Text Search just don't index the names of the principal parties mentioned on the processed documents. These trans...

Recently a colleague passed on a message they received where someone was being frustrated with trying to use find and use the Upper Canada Land Petitions found on the Library and Archives Canada site. They were annoyed in part due to the changes that LAC has made to their ...

If you have been reading my blog for some time, you know how important land records in Ontario can be for locating where our ancestors lived. As part of any land record research we also want to "see" where they were on a map. Quite often I will make use of the numerous illustrated atlases of the counties of Ontario found digitized on the "