Monthly Archives: December 2020

Four milestones in DNA testing

Posted on December 9, 2020 by Gail Dever

How time flies. This is the 20th anniversary of DNA tests being used for exploring one’s ancestry, and Libby Copeland has written an article in Psychology Today about the anniversary and three other milestones in DNA testing. She writes, “The … Continue reading →

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Webinar today — Pre-confederation immigration and military

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Gail Dever

The Lambton County Branch of Ontario Ancestors will host the free webinar, Early Canada — Pre-confederation immigration and military, presented by Lesley Anderson of Ancestry Canada, today, December 8, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time. Registration is required.

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New on BAnQ website — War of 1812 militiamen’s land requests

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Gail Dever

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) added the an online index to its website in November. War of 1812 militiamen’s land requests in Lower CanadaThe new online database is an index of the requests for land made by 14,554 … Continue reading →

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Enslaved — New website and database worth exploring

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Gail Dever

Michigan State University has built a website, Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade, for people to discover and explore nearly a half million people records and five million data points. The database explores or reconstructs the lives of individuals … Continue reading →

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One of this year’s Order of Yukon inductees is a genealogist

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Gail Dever

Ten Yukoners will be inducted into the Order of Yukon on January 1, and one of them is Bess Colley, who is a genealogist. Commissioner of Yukon Angélique Bernard announced on Wednesday the names of the inductees who were chosen … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — December 5, 2020

Posted on December 5, 2020 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsHighland Archives catalogue goes online by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES. Grenham’s Third Law of Irish Genealogy by John Grenham on Irish Roots. Dutch Genealogy News for November 2020 by Yvette Hoitink … Continue reading →

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How to access and search the Parchemin database of Quebec notary records

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Gail Dever

Genealogists have been conducting research in the Parchemin database for years. It’s a tool that helps all kinds of researchers find notarial records of early Quebec, from the earliest days of France’s colonization of North America in the early 1600s … Continue reading →

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FamilySearch adds 1891 Norway census

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Gail Dever

This year has been a good one for genealogists researching their Norwegian ancestry. Thanks to a multi-year collaborative project with Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, and Arkivverket (National Archives of Norway), we are seeing several new Norwegian collections being made available online. … Continue reading →

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One of Quebec genealogists’ favourite databases is now available for free from home… but you must be a resident of the province

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Gail Dever

There’s a free database, called Parchemin, that saves genealogists days, if not weeks, of time researching their Quebec ancestry. It’s a tool that helps researchers find notarial records of early Quebec, from the earliest days of France’s colonization of North … Continue reading →

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Schedule announced for free virtual Scottish Indexes conference on Sunday

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Gail Dever

The 7th virtual Scottish Indexes conference program schedule is now available. To accommodate people living around the world, the conference will start at 7:00 a.m. UK time — and continue live for nearly 16 hours. They will show each presentation … Continue reading →

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