Monthly Archives: June 2021

Montreal property tax evaluations, 1847-1987, now on Ancestry

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Gail Dever

Ancestry yesterday added the collection, Montreal, Québec, Canada, Property Tax Evaluations, 1847-1987. The original volumes are held at the Archives de Montréal. The records have not been indexed by people’s names, so you must browse by the quartier within a … Continue reading →

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Free access to select Canadian collections on Ancestry until Canada Day

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Gail Dever

Ancestry is offering free access to select Canadian collections, such as birth, marriage and death records, passenger lists, censuses, Quebec notarial records, and immigration records, until Thursday, July 1, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time. Registration is required. Learn more here.

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Webinar — Basics of auto clustering your autosomal DNA matches — plus more presentations on YouTube

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Gail Dever

The Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana will host the free webinar, Basics of Auto Clustering your Autosomal DNA Matches, presented by Sara Allen, on Thursday, July 1, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time. There are several … Continue reading →

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OGS Toronto Branch’s four-part series, Many Stories of Toronto, available online

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Gail Dever

Video recordings of the special spring online series, Many Stories of Toronto, hosted by the Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, are available to watch online for free until the end of July. The series of four lectures is … Continue reading →

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New Brunswick birth registrations, 1888-1889

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Gail Dever

The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick added to its website on Friday 9,010 digitized images for Westmorland County registrations of birth from 1888 to 1899 and 348 digitized images for Sunbury County registrations of birth from 1888 to 1899. Birth, marriage … Continue reading →

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Recordings of more than 80 lectures delivered at The Genealogy Show available to watch — at half price

Posted on June 27, 2021 by Gail Dever

If you missed The Genealogy Show that took place virtually during the past two days, there’s good news. The more than 80 lectures, delivered by industry-leading speakers from around the world, including Canada, have been recorded and are available to … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — June 26, 2021

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsGetting a Sense of Community through the Community Stories Collection by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Vital Records Newly Available by Diane Boumenot on One Rhode Island Family. Arizona: Digitized County Histories … Continue reading →

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MyHeritage — Free access to immigration and travel records and free Facebook Live sessions

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Gail Dever

MyHeritage is offering free access to all of its immigration and travel records from June 24 to 28. The Immigration & Travel category on MyHeritage encompasses 57 collections with 181,280,020 historical records from all over the world. They include passenger arrival … Continue reading →

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Archives of Ontario creates new research guide and updates look of other guides

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Gail Dever

The Archives of Ontario yesterday announced on social media it has created a new research guide to help people locate popular ethno-cultural records from its collections and it has begun updating the look of many of its other research guides. … Continue reading →

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FamilySearch’s new and expanded collections includes almost half a million more Ontario tax assessment records

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Gail Dever

This week FamilySearch added one million new records to the Netherlands Vital Records Archival Indexes 1600–2000, 437,549 more for Canada, Ontario Tax Assessment Rolls 1834–1899, 800,000 for New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1865–1957, and one million more Catholic Church Records from El Salvador 1655–1977, Peru 1603–1992, the diocese of Huaraz (in Peru) 1641–2016, … Continue reading →

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