Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
How to Search the New Canadian Collections on Heritage and Juvenile Inspecton Records in Canada by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on Olive Tree Genealogy.
1926 Census and other Library and Archives Canada Items by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Attention French-Canadian Descendants: You Are Undoubtedly Related to Almost All Other French-Canadians by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
The Other Border: Episode 2 — Industrialization in New England by David Vermette on French North America.
Dutch Genealogy News for January 2019 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy.
Apps for Scottish Genealogy Travel by Christine Woodcock on The In-Depth Genealogist.
How to Write about your Boring Ordinary Ancestors by Jessica Benjamin on Storied Genealogy.
Stepping into the Looking Glass: Reflections of ourselves in our family trees by Jennifer Geraghty-Gorman on ‘On a flesh and bone foundation’: An Irish History.
One little change and A letter from Bennett Greenspan by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.
Articles
First census of Toronto’s Black population in 1840 counted 525 people by John Lorinc, Toronto Star, Ontario.
First Nation teams with researchers to find graves of missing children from former residential school by Jordan Mae Cook, Folio, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
The forgotten history of a Victorian-era Irish cemetery in Saint John by Julia Wright, CBC, New Brunswick.
StarPhoenix gifts Saskatoon Archives 400,000 photos and news clippings, CBC, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and StarPhoenix photos added to City of Saskatoon archives by Matt Olson, StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
How to Use the Library of Congress’ New Sanborn Maps for Genealogy by Diane Haddad, FamilyTree Magazine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
What to Expect When Visiting A Plantation Where Your Ancestors Were Enslaved by Benji Hart, Teen Vogue, New York, New York.
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 quick questions about your family history research.
