IanBrowness
03-04-2008, 5:30 PM
In my last visit to the Canadian Genealogy Centre website ( http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html ) I discovered a link to a new "federated search engine" called "That's My Family" (see http://www.thatsmyfamily.info/Metamoteur/explications_en.html ), developed in partnership between the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and Library and Archives Canada (LAC). This tool lets you search by name simultaneously across many of Canada's federal and provincial databases containing family history information.
At present, searches are a bit slow and the information available varies dramatically from one province to the next; however, this is definitely a worthwhile development which, as it evolves, will greatly simplify Canadian genealogy research. It can quite be surprising what info you might turn up from provinces where you weren't expecting to find a thing!
At present, searches are a bit slow and the information available varies dramatically from one province to the next; however, this is definitely a worthwhile development which, as it evolves, will greatly simplify Canadian genealogy research. It can quite be surprising what info you might turn up from provinces where you weren't expecting to find a thing!