Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Immigrant Ancestors: Border Entry Records at the LAC by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
145 Birth, Marriage, and Death Record Collection Links from Canada by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
Using The London Gazette For Your Genealogy Research and Researching 20th century ancestors in England & Wales by Linda Elliott on Mad About Genealogy.
Mining Durham’s Hidden Depths’ by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Introducing Genealogy SA by Shauna Hicks on The In-Depth Genealogist.
Understanding the Gregorian Calendar for Genealogy by Amie Bowser Tennant.
Professional Genealogy: Preparation, Practice & Standards, Elizabeth Shown Mills, Editor: A Book Review by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
Pass the DNA, Please by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy.
Some Genealogy Sites Closing Due to EU’s General Data Protection Regulation by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
In Lieu of Flowers by John Kingston on Treasure Chest of Memories.
Articles
Volunteers join man’s mission to clean all 300 veterans’ graves in Alberta cemetery, CBC, Calgary, Alberta.
‘History you can put your hands on’: Work underway at Old Protestant Burying Ground by Jessica Doria-Brown, CBC, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
N.B. man reunited with family photos that washed away in flood, CTV, New Brunswick.
Thousands of undelivered letters, some with ‘heart-wrenching’ stories, to be posted online
by Kelly Terez, ABC, United States.
For more gems like these throughout the week, join the Genealogy à la carte Facebook group. When you submit your request to join, you will be asked to answer two questions about your family history research.
Fabulous list this week! I had missed the one about the missing letters – Wow! What an amazing project to digitize/annotate them. Wonderful history there.
Thank you for the mention this week. Elizabeth Shown Mills’ new book is terrific.