The Saskatchewan Vital Statistics Act, 2009

The Saskatchewan Vital Statistics Act, 2009 came into effect on December 6, 2010. You can read about the changes on the Information Services Corporation website:
https://www.isc.ca/About/News/Pages/TheVitalStatisticsAct,2009toTakeEffectMonday,December6.aspx?Source=http://www.isc.ca/Pages/default.aspx

Dick Eastman Interviews Founder of The Internet Archives

In a recent Bulletin we recommended the above website - The Internet Archives, http://www.archives.org/, as an excellent resource for out-of-copyright books, and hard to find books, and other resources. Dick Eastman recently interviewed the founder of The Internet Archives, Brewster Kahle about this unprecidented online archives. Following is a link to that interview.

www.archive.org/details/AnInterviewWithBrewsterKahle

SGS Offers Distance Education

SGS is excited to announce that it is now providing distance education for two of its professional certificate classes: Saskatchewan Record Searcher Certificate and Saskatchewan Aboriginal Research Certificate. Please see the SGS website for further information on these classes. http://www.saskgenealogy.ca/

Google Online Newspapers

If you are looking for newspapers in Canada and elsewhere you might want to check http://news.google.com/newspapers. They have a very large collection of original images of newspapers that can be viewed online. Although some of their newspaper series are not complete it certainly provides an excellent start to newspaper research. One drawback is that the newspapers cannot be searched.