Family Tree Magazine <www.familytreemagazine.com> has just put out its 2009 list — the 10th year of doing so — and Canada has three websites on the top "101 Best Web Sites 2009".
The first one I must mention is the Canadian Genealogy Centre website <www.collectionscanada.gc.ca>.
It came in second on the list for the "10 Best Virtual Library Sites" and it got a special nod for its census work and the other databases it has published online.
And this is the second time the site has been chosen - the first time was in 2003 when the CGC first opened.
A tip of the hat goes to Sylvie Tremblay, Chief, Project Manager, and her crew for doing such hard work. She is always thinking of new ways to present the information they have - and they do have a lot. We all want those databases to come faster, don't we?
Credit: Mario Lapointe, CDHere is a picture taken of Sylvie two years ago at the OGS Conference in Ottawa. She was there with (now just recently-retired) Librarian and Archivist Canada, Ian Wilson (left), along with Don Harris (right) and Tim Sullivan of The Generations Network (far right) to announce a partnership between the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Ancestry.ca.
The second on the "10 Best Sites for Vital Statistics" list is the Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics website <www.novascotiagenealogy.com>.
If you have ancestors in Nova Scotia, be sure to check this index because it will give you all sorts of information, and will tell you where you can send for the certificates.
With my family being one of the founding ones for Nova Scotia, I have used it on a number of occasions, and it has not failed me yet.
And the third one is in the "10 Best Sites for International Searches" and it is the Programme de Recherche en Demographie Historique website, and it came 8th in the list <www.genealogie.umontreal.ca>.
It has 750,000 entries from 1621 to 1850, and although you have to pay for a full search, you can search the index for free.
So, there are the winning websites for this year.
Congratulations to all!
Let's wait and see who will be on next year's list!
