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Monthly Archives: August 2018
Digital archive created to preserve Edinburgh’s past
Edinburgh Libraries is collaborating with the Living Memory Association to preserve Edinburgh’s past through its digital images archive, Edinburgh Collected. Described as a community archive of Edinburgh memories, Edinburgh Collected is an online collection where people can browse or share photographs and memories of Edinburgh’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Edinburgh, Edinburgh Collected, photos
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OGS to host Family Tree Maker presentations in seven Ontario cities — for free
The Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) and its branches will host seven, free two-hour presentations on how to use Family Tree Maker (FTM), from September 24 to October 2. FTM is one of the most popular family tree building software programs. … Continue reading
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RootsTech conference expands to London, England for 2019
FamilySearch announced yesterday its RootsTech conference will expand to international borders, beginning with the United Kingdom next year. The conference will take place in London, England from October 24 to 26, 2019 at the ExCeL London Convention Centre. Nick Barratt, author, … Continue reading
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Webinar — The YDNA test should be your favorite
Legacy Family Tree hosts a free webinar, The YDNA Test Should Be Your Favorite, presented by Diahan Southard, today, August 29, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. The Y chromosome DNA, with its direct paternal line inheritance pattern, is a powerful … Continue reading
Memorial to Canadian Forestry Corps helps preserve story of black Canadians who served in WW I
A French memorial to 3,000 Canadian forestry engineers from the First World War will help preserve the memory of members of the first and only black battalion in Canada’s history. In September, the tiny town of Supt in eastern France near … Continue reading
Quebec amateur historian created one of the largest databases of Indigenous soldiers
The names of more than 150,000 Indigenous soldiers who fought for Canada and the United States have been identified after a two-decade effort from a Quebec resident. Yann Castelnot is an amateur historian from France, who has compiled one of the largest … Continue reading
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Ancestry didn’t remove one of its Canadian databases
When I wrote on Friday that Ancestry had removed the Fenian Raids Bounty Lists database from its Canadian collection to put it in its Fold3 military website, I was wrong. Ancestry did add the Fenian Raids Bounty Lists to Fold3, but I … Continue reading
This week’s crème de la crème — August 25, 2018
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Ottawa Citizen Archive Online by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. In the Parish Chest: Bastardy Bonds by Sue McNelly on KindredPast. Files on Officers of the French Navy Are Going … Continue reading
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Ancestry removes Fenian Raids Bounty Lists from its Canadian collection
It was disappointing to read yesterday that Ancestry.ca has removed the Fenian Raids Bounty Lists database from its Canadian collection and put it instead in its Fold3 military website to help beef up the small amount of Canadian there. As a … Continue reading
Access to Toronto Star Archives restricted, for the most part, to Toronto residents
Until not long ago, anyone around the world had online access to the Toronto Star archives, from 1894 to 2015, through a daily, monthly, or yearly subscription. A daily subscription was about $7. Sometimes there were even free-access periods. In May … Continue reading