Monthly Archives: February 2021

Take a virtual tour of Saskatchewan Archives’ new location

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Gail Dever

Now that the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan has completed its two-year move into a new centralized location in Regina, they have produced a few short videos. Visit the archives’ YouTube channel to: Take a virtual tour of the new facility at … Continue reading →

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Savoir faire — Ontario Ancestors receives Unsung Heroes Grant for service provided to genealogical society branches and local libraries

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Gail Dever

The Genealogy Guys Podcast, co-hosted by George G. Morgan and Drew Smith, and Vivid-Pix, makers of RESTORE photo and document restoration software, announced Friday at the virtual RootsTech Connect 2021 conference that Ontario Ancestors was the recipient of their Unsung Heroes Grant. … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — February 27, 2021

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsOntario Concession and Lot in the 1871 Census of Canada and Finding the Concession and Lot in Ontario in the 1901 Census by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. “Female Ancestors Are … Continue reading →

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MyHeritage releases groundbreaking feature to animate the faces in still photos

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Gail Dever

If you received this blog post by email, you may need to double-click on the title above in order to see the video clip below. Before I had a chance to start any chores yesterday, MyHeritage announced the release of Deep … Continue reading →

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Suggestions for your RootsTech playlist

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Gail Dever

There has been a lot of positive response on social media to RootsTech’s live and recorded sessions and the Expo Hall. Because there are so many sessions to watch, many people have taken advantage of the Playlist feature on the … Continue reading →

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Free virtual RootsTech Connect 2021 conference now live

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Gail Dever

By the time you read this, the first all-virtual RootsTech conference should be live — and it’s all free. The world’s largest family history discovery event, RootsTech Connect 2021, taking place from February 25 to 27, kicked off yesterday at … Continue reading →

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New collections at Findmypast, including one on Black Loyalists

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Gail Dever

Among the new collections Findmypast recently added was United States, Black Loyalists evacuated, 1783 about the of Black Loyalists who were evacuated by the British from New York after defeat in the American War of Independence. Findmypast has transcribed Book … Continue reading →

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American Ancestors releases database of Massachusetts Catholic cemetery records, 1833-1940

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Gail Dever

Researchers can now search hundreds of thousands of records containing detailed information about people buried in eastern Massachusetts Catholic cemeteries through a new online database, thanks to a partnership between American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Archive Department of … Continue reading →

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New Brunswick Archives adds late birth registrations

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Gail Dever

The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick has added 508 digitized images for late registration of births in 1925. These can be registrations for births from 1818 to 1925. Birth, marriage and death registrations can be searched on the archives website. … Continue reading →

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New Google map to search for Indigenous heritage collections

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Gail Dever

To make it easier to locate recently digitized Indigenous heritage content at Library and Archives Canada, the national archives has created a searchable list of the collections and introduced a Google map feature that allows users to browse archival materials … Continue reading →

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