Month: July 2026

• June 2026 – ATIP action plan progress report
  In the past year there has been an increase in the number of ATIP requests for all three types or record: Military – former Canadian Armed Forces members and former public servants; GOC – Government of Canada archival records; and LAC – LAC operational records.

  Received during the reporting period	Military	GOC	LAC
  January 1 to March 31, 2026	2,687	1,213	32
  October 1 to December 31, 2025	2,965	545	10
  July 1 to September 30, 2025	1,717	657	20
  April 1 to June 30, 2025	1,750	586	13

  Despite this, the number of late responses (beyond the legislated timeframe) is significantly reduced from a year earlier. LAC’s focus on reducing the military backlog is evident. As of 31 March, there are more late Government of Canada archival records (2,186) than late military records (1,078).

• Co-Lab
  There are now 3,413 results found in LAC Collection Search as Co-Lab.  only. There appears to be no way to determine how many are recent additions. Sorting by most recent, the top five are:

1. Canadian Recording Artists [philatelic record] = Artistes canadiens de la chanson
2, Year of the tiger [philatelic record] = Année du tigre = [Title in Chinese characters]
3. Happy Thanksgiving Your Majesty!
4. THE LAW – LATIMER CASE
5. You are not gay! You are not!/ — Talk some sense into him!!!

• LAC Organization Chart
  Who’s Who at LAC? Keeping up with personnel movements can be a challenge. Here’s the top level of the organization.

Office of the Librarian and Archivist of Canada

• Librarian and Archivist of Canada – Leslie Weir
• Chief of Staff – Marilyne Lafortune
• Director, International Affairs and Stakeholder Relations – Francesco Manganiello

Collections Sector

• Assistant Deputy Minister – Jennifer Schofield
  • Director General, Government Record – Roxane Lafrenière
    • Director, Ministerial and Government Archives – Sarah Cook
    • Director, Government Records Initiatives & Services – Julie Bibaud
  • Director General, Private Archives and Published Heritage – Karen Linauskas
    • Director, Published Heritage – Julie Anne Richardson
    • Director, Private Archives – Sandy Ramos
    • Director, Coordination, Standards & Collections Systems – Rebecca Giesbrecht
  • Director General, Access to Information and Privacy – Kristina Lillico
    • Director, ATIP Requests – Georges Fattouche (acting)
    • Director, ATIP Strategy, Systems and Privacy – Boris Stipernitz

User Experience Sector

• Assistant Deputy Minister – Jasmine Bouchard
  • Director General, Digital Discovery and Access – Julie-Anne Lemire
    • Director, Digitization Services – Sophie Dazé
    • Director, Online Experience – Tina Grznar
    • Director, Research Support – Andrew Ross
  • Director General, Communications and Policy – Lisa Tremblay-Goodyer
    • Director, Communications – Zeina Harb
    • Director, Policy and Strategic Support – Marie-Mai Tourangeau
  • Director General, Visitor and Collection Care – Maryse Laflamme
    • Director, Programs – Gary Goodacre
    • Director, Client Services – Meghan Laidlaw (acting)
    • Director, Collections Management – Jean-Michel Smith

Corporate Services Sector

• Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer – Nancy Taillon
  • Director, Corporate Accountability, Results and Integration – Shélie Laforest
  • Strategic Advisor – Mireille Miniggio
  • Director General, Real Property – Jean Deschamps
    • Director, Special Projects – Mario Gasperetti
  • Director General, Financial Services, Procurement and Deputy Chief Financial Officer – Julie Charbonneau
  • Director General, Human Resources and Security Branch and Chief Security Officer – Jonathan Salois
  • Director, Workplace Management and Security – Marc Leduc

Digital Services Sector

• Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer, and Senior Director General, Digital Services – Wanito Bernadin
  • Director, Solutions, IT Solutions – Simon Pageot
  • Director, Operations, Infrastructure and IT Security – Patrick Lajoie
  • Director, Digital Collections Operations – Kyle Browness
  • Director, Innovation, Project & Data Management – Sylvain J. Richard

 

Sourced from Shropshire Archives, these records are from the property survey conducted between 1910 and 1915 under the Finance Act 1910, known as the Lloyd George Valuation.

The index gives you:
Name of occupier
Name of owner
Parish

The original linked record image adds more: the property’s description and street address, its value, acreage, number of buildings and machinery, fruit trees and timber, and the value of agricultural land; helpful for understanding an ancestor’s property and livelihood.

If a property isn’t where you expect, try searching nearby civil parishes whose names fall earlier in the alphabet, since that’s how tax parishes were grouped.

Choose from these selected free online events. All times are Eastern Time, unless otherwise noted. Registration may be required in advance—please check the links to avoid disappointment. For many more events, mainly in the U.S., visit https://conferencekeeper.org/virtual/

Tuesday, 7 July

2:00 PM: Ottawa Virtual Genealogy Drop-In, for OGS Ottawa Branch.
https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/virtual-genealogy-drop-in-2-2026-07-07/

2:30 PM: Finding Your Family’s Story at the Genealogy Center, by Elizabeth Hodges from Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://acpl.libnet.info/event/16750085

Wednesday, 8 July

2:00 PM: Only A Date? Five Things You May Be Missing in Kentucky and Virginia Marriages, by Gail Jackson Miller for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

Thursday, 9 July

Friday, 10 July

2:00 PM: Researching in Warwickshire, by Donna Rutherford for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/researching-in-warwickshire

Saturday, 11 July

Here’s what’s new at Findmypast for the week ending 3 July.

Philadelphia County, Civil Marriages, 1804-1895, 7,758 records
Philadelphia County, Civil Deaths, 1793-1918, 382,968 records

Women’s Land Army Service Cards, 1939-1950, 176,224 records
1939 Register, 36,688,004 results, although some officially closed records are not displayed.

Newspapers
A total of 207,356 new pages added, from 1833 to 2005. The Young Soldier, under its current title, Kid’s Alive, published by the Salvation Army, is the longest-running children’s periodical in continuous publication in the world.

New Titles

Updated Titles with Over 10,000 Pages Added

If you have Colonial America ancestors, a new collection of early American historical and genealogical books, bringing more than 200,000 names into the searchable records at TheGenealogist, may be of interest.

Among the records are settlers, soldiers, sailors, landowners, officials, prisoners, emigrants and ordinary families whose lives formed part of a much larger national story. The new release includes material from the Pennsylvania Archives, with records relating to the Revolutionary War, including British prisoners held in Pennsylvania, officers and men of the
Pennsylvania Navy, sick soldiers in Philadelphia in December 1776, and first-hand journals connected to the Battle of Long Island.
Also included are Passenger Lists to Boston and the Bay Colony 1620 to 1640, featuring a study of the settlers, alongside the New Jersey Index of Wills 1705-1901 and Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts.

These resources are also available elsewhere, just Google.

Ancestry has been drawing on data collected by GreyPower Deceased Data, compiled by Wilmington Millennium, West Yorkshire, since 2019. The latest updates with a focus on recent years, are:

England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2025, 8,575,941 records, about 80% of deaths in recent years.
Scotland and Northern Ireland, Death Index, 1989-2025, 1,002,447 records, about 45% of deaths in recent years.

Wiltshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1975
Electoral registers are great sources to fill in between census years, except for war years when registers were kept, and if the person of interest was entitled to vote. That’s 3,785,767 entries for a county which now has a population of a little over half a million. The original documents are held by the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England.

There have been no updates for Canada since June’s Find A Grave Index update.