This is from this week's NEHGS newsletter. I haven't explored it yet, but thought it might be helpful to our Robblee cousins whose forefather and mothers wandered north! Cindy Research Recommendations OurRoots.ca/NosRacines.ca by Michael J. Leclerc Those researching their New England ancestors usually discover quickly how tied the history of New England is to that of eastern Canada. Many New Englanders left as early as the eighteenth century to settle in parts of Canada such as Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. In the nineteenth century, the descendants of many of these individuals, along with the descendants of other early Canadian families, left for better prospects working in the mills of New England. www.OurRoots.ca/NosRacines.ca is a bilingual website that can assist you in researching your Canadian ancestors. The primary partners are Université Laval; University of Calgary; University of Toronto; Dalhousie University; Galileo Educational Network; Calgary Exhibition & Stampede; iXmédia; and Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries/Initiative canadienne sur les bibliothèques numériques. Twenty other repositories from around Canada have also contributed to the website. It is generously supported by Canadian Culture Online and the partner organizations. The site offers a large number of local histories from around the country. It adheres to strict scholarly standards, so that users can be assured that the content is dependable, and it posts these standards on the site: Project will strive to create the most comprehensive collection of Canadian local histories possible. Content will be reviewed and vetted by an Editorial Board. The content policies will be clearly explained on the web site. No item is digitized without written consent of the copyright holder unless the item resides within the public domain. The cleanest copy of each item available is digitized. If marginalia is present, it will be digitized as well. All local history pages within a book, even those that are blank, are digitized to ensure clients know that nothing has been left out or edited. Page edges will be digitized to ensure clients know that nothing has been left out or edited. Local histories included in this project are those that have been published or reproduced in print previously. Users have access to hundreds of works from A brief history of Alliston: from the founding of the first settlement by William Fletcher in 1847 until the year of centennial, 1947 to Zorra boys at home and abroad: or, Success illustrated by example. The site is keyword searchable, as are the contents of each of the books. Users can also browse by title, author, or subject. Ever wondered what your great-great-great-aunt had to do when she joined the convent? Check out Constitutions des Sœurs de la Charité de la Congrégation de Québec. Each book has its own search page. An image of the title page is displayed, as well as the chapter titles, which are hotlinked to the first page in the chapter. The publication information is included on the page, as are links to similar works on the site. If you have ancestors in Canada, this is a must-use website. It will give you access to many materials that are just not readily available anywhere else. There is a link to a feedback form on the site, so please take a moment or two to share your thoughts with the site’s partner organizations.