Monthly Archives: December 2016

This week’s crème de la crème — December 31, 2016

Some of the bijoux I discovered this last week in 2016. Blogs Top 10 Genealogy Tips: A Year-end Wrap Up by Amy Johnson Crow on Amy Johnson Crow. My 2017 Genealogy Resolutions by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the … Continue reading

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Your top 15 online genealogy collections in 2016

Looking back over the past twelve months at what captured genealogists’ attention, it seems this was not the best year for exciting new Canadian collections. With the exception of Library and Archives Canada’s ongoing digitization of Canadian Expeditionary Forces service … Continue reading

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Jump-start your personal history writing with #52Stories project

FamilySearch is encouraging us to write about our personal history every week for the next 52 weeks. Called the #52Stories Project, the initiative is about defining the dash between our date of birth and eventual date of death with stories … Continue reading

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Canadian genealogy software developer enters semi-finals in 2017 RootsTech Innovation Showdown

Louis Kessler, a Winnipeg genealogist, DNA expert and software developer, is one of ten semi-finalists in the 2017 RootsTech Innovation Showdown for his genealogy tool, the Double Match Triangulator (DMT). The idea for the DMT began soon after Mr. Kessler … Continue reading

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Genealogy Do-Over begins third year

Thomas MacEntee’s popular Genealogy Do-Over for 2017 begins January 2. The first month’s topics are Setting Previous Research Aside and Preparing to Research. The Genealogy Do-Over started in January 2015 as a weekly program, lasting 13 weeks. In 2016, the … Continue reading

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This week’s crème de la crème — December 24, 2016

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Lump of Coal Award Nominations by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. Canadiana.org’s Failure to Correct Mistakes by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on Olive Tree Genealogy. Crossing a River by Nathan … Continue reading

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Monument honours those buried in unmarked paupers’ grave

In early December, a headstone was erected in a cemetery in Perth, Ontario, a town southwest of Ottawa, to honour the more than 400 people who were buried in a paupers’ grave 100 years ago. These men and women had … Continue reading

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Mince pie with boiled ox tongue, anyone?

If eating boiled ox tongue in mince pie is your cup of tea, you will enjoy making the recipe the Essex Record Office in England found in a book from the 1700s. The original owner of the recipe book lived … Continue reading

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Documentary about the Irish and Great Famine on YouTube

A new documentary tells the story of the Irish who fled poverty and the Great Famine of 1847 and travelled to Canada, and the master cut has been put on YouTube. Written and directed by former Montrealer Kevin Moynihan, The … Continue reading

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Top Quebec baby names in 2015

When one of my favourite bloggers, John D. Reid, writes about the top baby names in Ontario in 2015 in Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections, I just have to see if I could find a similar list for Quebec. I did. Top … Continue reading

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