Tracing ancestors in Saskatchewan? This guide highlights the best free Saskatchewan genealogy websites, from birth and marriage indexes to census records, homestead files, newspapers, and cemetery databases.

Looking for Alberta ancestors? This guide brings together the best free Alberta genealogy websites, including birth, marriage, and death indexes, census records, homestead files, newspapers, and city directories.

In 1922, a man from eastern Ontario living in a care home made headlines for allegedly turning 110 years old. While this is possible, I know that verifying historical age claims in genealogy often proves the subject was younger than they claimed to be. The article stated that the superintendent of the care home had conducted an investigation that supported the man’s claim. I didn’t believe it, so I had to investigate. Was this man really 110 years old?

When you're staring down a brick wall in your family tree, few resources are more revealing — and underestimated — than census records. These routine government snapshots can uncover how your ancestors moved over time, giving you helpful clues about where to look next. So let’s walk through how to use census records from Canada, the United States, and the UK to track your ancestors’ migration patterns and uncover the hidden chapters of their lives.

Growing up, I was told that my great-grandmother’s family came to Canada to find work, like many of us were told about our ancestors. But the truth was far more personal—and shocking.

Once I started to become more serious with my genealogy research in my teen years, I started to uncover missing puzzle pieces that solved family mysteries. But this time, I found an entirely new mystery that revealed the true reason as to why my great-grandmother, her parents, and her sisters all immigrated to Canada. And that reason…