Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Find Birth, Marriage, and Death Records from Canada by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
Free at FindMyPast: all Irish/UK census and bmd records, and the new Suffragette Collection by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News.
Scots-Irish Genealogy: Getting Started by Suzanne Earnshaw on Genealogy Gems.
Dutch Genealogy News for January 2018 by Yvette Hoitnik on Dutch Genealogy.
Evaluating Evidence in Genealogy by Mary Ann on Collecting Cousins.
Home Training – Why Genealogy Needs a Code of Conduct by Nicka Smith on Who is Nicka Smith?
MyHeritage Rolls Out Chromosome Browser and Other Features by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
atDNA Processing Times by Leah Larkin on The DNA Geek.
Healing the extended family by John Grenham on Irish Roots.
Articles
Indigenous or a French colonist? How the fight over this 17th-century woman’s identity could affect tens of thousands of her descendants by Maura Forrest, National Post, Toronto.
First census of Toronto’s Black population in 1840 counted 525 people by John Lorinc, Toronto Star.
College Launches New York State’s First Slavery Records Index, NBC, New York.
Going Home to the “Lost Villages” of the St. Lawrence River by Jennifer Debruin, Reader’s Digest, Canada.
Poorhouses Were Designed to Punish People for Their Poverty by Erin Blakemore, History Channel, United States.
Radical bid to revive heritage lost by the Highland clearances by Calum Ross, The Press and Journal, Mastrick, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Gail, thanks so much. Included in this week’s post are two blogs that might help me solve where my Irish ancestors were from. I appreciate all the work that you do to help me increase my skills and knowledge.
Thanks for featuring my post on evaluating evidence, Gail!