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Monthly Archives: March 2016
TNA online tutorial about reading old handwriting
The National Archives offers a free online tutorial, Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500 – 1800. The tutorial is intended to help you learn to read the handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800. While the tutorial … Continue reading
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This week’s crème de la crème — March 19, 2016
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Canadian Census Tips by Denise Larson on Genealogy and Family History. Books about Canadian genealogy and Saskatchewan Resources by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy. Talbot Settlement Maps of Elgin … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, books, Canada, Canadian genealogists, census, genealogical proof standard, heirlooms, Irish, land records, letters, maps, Montreal, PRONI, societies, War of 1812, Winnipeg, WWI, WWII
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BC Genealogical Society received grant to digitize personal family histories
The British Columbia Genealogical Society (BCGS) has received funding to digitize pedigree charts, family trees, and family information sheets that form the oldest part of their holdings. With a $4,609 grant from Library and Archives Canada’s Documentary Heritage Communities Program, … Continue reading
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Tagged best practices, British Columbia Genealogical Society, Documentary Heritage Communities Program
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Ulster Historical Foundation workshop available online
It must be true what they say about the luck of the Irish. We are lucky, especially today. Here is a fabulous way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day: watch five hours of lectures about Irish genealogy research, delivered by Fintan … Continue reading
Webinar – WWI dispatches from the front
The National Archives will offer a free webinar, Dispatches from the front, on how to track down citations for honours, awards and mentions in dispatches for British military service during the First World War. The webinar will also cover an … Continue reading
H is for Holland — LAC WWI digitization project update
It won’t be long before the folks at Library and Archives Canada digitizing the WWI service files see the end of family names ending in the letter H. As of yesterday, LAC had digitized 254,296 of 640,000 files. The last … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian Expeditionary Force, WWI service files
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Opportunity for genealogy societies in new Canada 150 community fund
Genealogy societies should take a look at a new community fund created to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation that was announced yesterday by the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage, in collaboration with Community Foundations of Canada. The … Continue reading
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Online newspaper collections for Southern Alberta and New Brunswick
While reading the March/April 2016 issue of Family Tree Magazine, I came across a list of Major Online Foreign Newspaper Collections that contained two Canadian databases that were new to me. New Brunswick The Daniel F Johnson’s New Brunswick Newspaper … Continue reading
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Vos citations, s’il vous plaît! — Citing a foreign-language source
Cite your sources. Over and over, we are told to cite our sources. And it’s excellent advice. That’s why I bought the best genealogy citation reference book, Evidence Explained — all 892 pages, by Elizabeth Shown Mills. It is one … Continue reading
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Roch Carrier to speak about his book, ‘Montcalm and Wolfe’
Author Roch Carrier will speak about his book, Montcalm and Wolfe: Two Men Who Forever Changed the Course of Canadian History, at the Pointe-Claire Library, west of Montreal, on Wednesday, March 16, at 7:0 p.m. The book is a dual … Continue reading
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