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Monthly Archives: December 2022
This week’s crème de la crème — December 31, 2022
Some of the bijoux I discovered this last week of the year. Blog postsMilitary Monday: What’s the Difference between the CVWM and CWGC Databases? by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. Success in finding death record gives closure on lost child … Continue reading
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Tagged AncestryDNA, books, Canada, DNA, FamilySearch, military, Russia, Ukraine
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New season of Finding Your Roots begins January 3
Finding Your Roots returns to PBS for its ninth season this Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. The 10-episode season, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will feature actors Jamie Chung (Lovecraft Country), Brian Cox (Succession), Billy Crudup (The Morning … Continue reading
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2023 Legacy Family Tree Webinars series announced
MyHeritage and Legacy Family Tree Webinars yesterday announced that registration is open for its 2023 series of webinars — now in its 14th year. If your brain can handle it, you can choose from 177 classes from genealogy’s leading educators … Continue reading
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Legacy Family Tree Webinars’ ‘O Canada’ series to continue in 2023
Unable to control my curiosity until Legacy Family Tree Webinars makes an official announcement about their 2023 presentation line-up, I looked at the Upcoming Webinars tab on their website and discovered that the line-up of almost 180 webinars is already … Continue reading
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This week’s crème de la crème — December 24, 2022
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs postsFree Canada High School and College Yearbooks Online by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt. New: Global Name Translation™ for DNA Matches by Erica on MyHeritage Blog. Donate Your Family … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, copyright, MyHeritage, societies, United States, WWI, yearbooks
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How genetic genealogy helped uncover the fate of a girl who disappeared 68 years ago in Montreal
Rosemarie Doederlein was 14 when her mother sent her to a bakery a few blocks from their Notre-Dame-de-Grâce apartment one afternoon in late 1954, a couple of months after she had arrived in Montreal from Germany with her parents and … Continue reading
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Tagged genetic genealogy
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Chris Paton’s ‘Discover Your Scottish Roots’ on YouTube
Chris Paton has delivered an early Christmas present for family historians with Scottish ancestors. On Friday, he posted a 56-minute video on YouTube, called Discover Your Scottish Roots. In a Facebook post, Mr. Paton wrote, “I’ve recorded a talk discussing … Continue reading
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This week’s crème de la crème — December 17, 2022
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsScotlandsPeople continues to sort out the bugs and The National Records of Scotland needs to reset its relationship with its user base by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES. Where the bodies … Continue reading
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Tagged DNA, FamilySearch, Findmypast, France, Holocaust, methodology, Poland, Scotland, ScotlandsPeople, societies
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Findmypast’s latest additions include records from Surrey and Philadelphia
This week, Findmypast has added thousands of records from Surrey, England to Philadelphia in the United States. Protestation Returns 1641-1642 In May of 1641, rumors spread that the Protestant reformation in Britain was at risk of collapsing. In response to this, … Continue reading
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Last ‘O Canada’ series webinar of the year — How the West was won in Canada
Legacy Family Tree Webinars kicked off its 2022 O Canada series with a webinar by Lianne Kruger, and now it will end the series with another free presentation by the Alberta-based genealogist. How the West Was Won in Canada will … Continue reading
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