MyHeritage Adds Canada, Home Children Immigration Index, 1869-1932
This, the latest Canadian collection to be added to MyHeritage, contains 246,528 immigration records of “Home Children” – young migrants sent from the United Kingdom to Canada between the years 1869 and 1932 as part of various child migration schemes.
With around 100,000 children, perhaps as many as 130,000 according to some exceptionally generous counts, who arrived in Canada as Home Children, it’s obvious there are multiple records. It includes not only passenger lists, as suggested by “Immigration Index” in the title. They typically include the child’s name, date of birth, date and port of departure, date and port of arrival, destination in Canada, and occasionally additional notes on the child’s background or placement.
The data is sourced from Library and Archives Canada, much of it available thanks to cooperating organizations like the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa.
Who Do You Think You Are Magazine
The feature articles in the May 2025 issue are:
VE Day On the Front Line
Phil Tomaselli reveals how the Second World War ended |in Europe and what happened next — and how you can | uncover your own family’s experiences during the war
8 Reasons Why You Wouldn’t Survive the 17th Century
It’s a miracle that any of our forebears in the 17th century lived to see the 18th considering the multitude of threats that they had to overcome, says Janet Few |
Meet The Celebrities!
Rosemary Collins reveals the stars of the new BBC TV series of Who Do You Think You Are? — Andrew Garfield, Ross Kemp, Aisling Bea, Diane Morgan, Will Young, Mishal Husain, Fred Serieix and Layton Williams.
Victory At Last
Jad Adams recalls how we celebrated VE Day 80 years ago, including the future Elizabeth Il dancing the conga.
There’s research advice on British relations who lived in India, online resources to help you research the English Civil War, how to use masters’ and mates’ certificates to trace a Merchant Navy forebear, and an eight-step-by- step procedure on how to use the power of Al to transcribe handwritten documents for free with ChatGPT.
There are the usual regular columns, including news that the complete archive of Soldier, the official magazine of the British Army launched during the Second World War, is now free to read online. Back issues are at soldier.army.mod.uk/archive/ .
A reminder that you likely have free online access to the magazine as a cardholder at your local public library