Monday, May 28, 2012

New/Improved Canadian Websites and Blogs Week 26

Acadian Memorial http://www.acadianmemorial.org/ They have the Ensemble Encore (Together Again) Database of Acadian Genealogy onsite, plus workshops and a guide to sources.

Down East: A Maritime Heritage http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~downeast There is something for everyone here - families genealogies; birth, marriage, and death records; photographs; and links to related sites.

Genealogy of the Rose family of Ochre Pit Cove, Conception Bay, Newfoundland http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jordain The site has a surname list and family trees.

Parkdale-Maplewood Community Museum http://parkdale.ednet.ns.ca/ Visit their Memories Not Forgotten display, the Research Centre, and their Newsletter – there seems to be something of interest to everyone.

The P.E.I. Ships Database! - Index www.islandregister.com/ship_data.html Check out the ship's database for passenger lists, diaries of voyages at sea of the people from Prince Edward Island.

Grand Falls Genealogy Club (New Brunswick) www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbgfgc This is a bilingual site (F/E), and is full of genealogical tid-bits to feast upon – from biographies, to Facebook, to early church histories.

Fraser Family Tree (Manitoba Branch) www.kenora.net/frazer The history of the Frazer family immigration to Ontario Canada in 1869, and moving on to Manitoba about 1886.

Sidney Museum and Archives http://www.sidneymuseum.ca/ This museum is operated by the Saanich Museum, and follows the history of the people who settled there.