Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Quebec Ancestors: Church Indexes on Family Search by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
A Parish History Book for Winter Reading by Diane Tourville on GenSpotters.
Fantastic Find! US Mexican War Soldiers & Sailors Database by Pat Hartley on Ancestry Island.
A Google Book Search for Mayflower Books by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on Nutfield Genealogy.
20 Special Collections of Online Historical Newspapers by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
Researching Early American Mariners of the Napoleonic Wars – Part 1 by Anne Morddel on The French Genealogy Blog.
Recent Irish genealogy and history lectures on video by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News.
GRO adds twenty years of birth indexes and Book Review: Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry through Church and State Records by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.
How the Public Record Office burned by John Grenham on Irish Roots.
Turning Little Hearts-Over 90 Activities to Connect Children with their Ancestors by Charlotte Barnes on Family Locket.
Will Your Family History Research Die With You? by Jane Roberts on Past to Present Genealogy.
Genealogically Limiting Factors by Ryan Ross on Once Removed.
Solve Your Genealogy Brick Wall by Sue McNelly on Kindred Past.
What is Your 2020 Genealogy Vision? by Will Moneymaker on Ancestral Findings.
A Genealogy Catastrophe Made Me Mend My Ways by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family.
You’re syncing, but are you backing up? by Donna Cox Baker on The Golden Egg Genealogist.
Autosomal DNA Database Growth by Leah Larkin on The DNA Geek.
Triangulation in Action at GEDmatch by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Articles
These Archival Photos of First Nations in B.C. Shine a Light on Traditional Daily Life by Tom Hawthorn on Montecristo Magazine, Vancouver, British Columbia.
New film traces family’s story of survival on an Irish coffin ship that crashed off Gaspé coast by Marilla Steuter-Martin, CBC, Montreal, Quebec.
Forgotten family photos found in Burlington attic returned to rightful owner by Nick Dixon, CTV, Toronto, Ontario.
23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline, CEO says she was ‘surprised’ to see market turn by Christina Farr, CNBC, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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.
