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- This week’s Ontario Ancestors virtual presentation topics include… Library and Archives Canada, DNA, French Canadian research, Scottish research, MyHeritage, and mind mapping
- Qualicum Beach Family History Society’s webinar on accessing images in FamilySearch
- This week’s crème de la crème — October 12, 2024
- Plenty to learn on YouTube channel of Ontario Ancestors’ Essex County branch
- Quebec Federation of Genealogy Societies awards literary prize to André LaRose, author of book about a family in Beauharnois
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Monthly Archives: October 2019
AncestryDNA rolls out updated ethnicity estimates
Ancestry yesterday announced it has updated the “science behind” the DNA ethnicity estimates. New ethnicity estimates will roll out to new and existing customers over several months, resulting in potential developments for customers, such as new ethnicity regions. For example, … Continue reading
Historian Jonathan F.W. Vance named winner of the 2018 C.P. Stacey Award for best Canadian military history book
If you’re looking for a military history book to read, you probably won’t go wrong reading an award winner. The C.P. Stacey Award Committee and the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies have awarded Professor Jonathan F.W. Vance of Western University with … Continue reading
This week’s crème de la crème — October 19, 2019
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs The best online library of sources for Irish history I’ve ever seen and The Financial Health of Canadian Genealogical Societies 2018 by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. Canadians and … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, DNA Painter, Illinois, LivingDNA, military, Netherlands, research logs, Russia, societies, Ukraine, WWI
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DNA webinar with Dr. Maurice Gleeson
Webinars have limited seating and can fill up early. I don’t know the capacity for Ontario Ancestors’ free monthly webinars, but if interested in DNA, you should probably register early for the one in November. The speaker is a popular … Continue reading
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New Quebec family histories at BAnQ — September 2019
The Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal catalogued in September two Quebec families histories for its genealogy collection. The Grande Bibliothèque is the flagship library facility of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ). All books published in Quebec, including family histories, must be … Continue reading
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Webinar — Italian civil registration
Legacy Family Tree will host today at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time the free webinar, Italian Civil Registration (Stato Civile): Going Beyond the Basics, presented by Melanie D. Holtz. This lecture discusses some of the more advanced records within Italian civil … Continue reading
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Ancestry releases AncestryHealth in the US
It was bound to happen. Ancestry has jumped on the health services bandwagon. The global leader in family history and consumer DNA tests yesterday launched AncestryHealth Core and AncestryHealth Plus in the United States, competing with the health services offered … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestry, AncestryDNA, AncestryHealth
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Newspapers.com’s barely noticeable ‘Sort’ feature makes it easier to search
Newspapers.com has a barely noticeable drop-down menu that can make searching for ancestors a lot easier. At least, I’d never seen it until a couple of days ago. Despite having had a subscription to the website for almost a year, … Continue reading
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This week’s crème de la crème — October 12, 2019
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. (Not a turkey in the bunch.) BlogsWWII Honours & Awards Indexed on Library and Archives Website and Why I Follow Genealogy News Bloggers by Patricia Greber on My Genealogy Life. French Canadian and Acadian … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, DNA, DNAPainter, FindAGrave, Ireland, Library and Archives Canada, newspapers, nursing, Quebec, WWII
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The forgotten Canadian WWI battle — Hill 70 memorial unveiled in France
On October 2, a new memorial, commemorating the August 1917 Canadian battle and victory at Hill 70, was unveiled in a park near the town of Loos-en-Gohelle, France. The previously overlooked WWI battle, where more than 9,000 causalities, including the loss of almost … Continue reading