The Beaver changing name effective April 2010

Well, it seems that the venerable The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine will be changing its name effective with its April/May 2010 issue. Its creators never realized that the, ummm, slang connotation associated with its title would wreak havoc with those dealing with spam filters and filtering software. So it will become Canada's History instead. To learn more about the name change, please visit the CBC website for their report.

What I never realized until I visited their site is that the magazine offers a service called, Canadian Roots @ The Beaver: Where amateur genealogists can solve their personal history mysteries. It's a great forum for discussion on topics that people are seeking answers to genealogical quandries. I hope you have as much fun poking around the site as I have!

Leaving Ontario, Resources for Tracking Ontario Migrants

Leaving Ontario, Resources for Tracking Ontario Migrants is Fawne Stratford-Devai's latest book, available for sale at Global Genealogy in Campbellville, ON. In it, she offers leads for those who have hit the proverbial genealogical "brick wall" for ancestors who have left the province of Ontario. The bonus, according to Rick Roberts, writing for the Global Gazette, is her transcription of one of the resources she consulted when preparing the book. To read more, please click here, and you will also be taken to her transcription of "'Go West' Horace Greely's Advice Taken by Many Canadians" from the The London Adviser published Wednesday April 7, 1880.