Monthly Archives: July 2025

OGS webinar series — Caribbean, Jewish and Chinese genealogy

The Ontario Genealogical Society this month will host an International Series of three webinars. The series is free for members. It is $25 for non-members or $10 for a single webinar. Thursday, July 10, 7:00 p.m. Eastern timeTracing Your Caribbean … Continue reading

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This week’s crème de la crème — July 5, 2025

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsSnapshots of British Columbia’s Ghost Towns: Part 1—The Corbin Miners’ Strike by Jill Henderson on Digitizer’s Blog. Finding Scotland’s Place Names and Research Documents and Letters With Artificial Intelligence by John … Continue reading

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Almost 4,000 birth records added to Provincial Archives of New Brunswick’s website

The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick yesterday released 3,872 digitized images of birth registrations for the cities of Bathurst and Fredericton, from 1920 to 1929. These records are available on the archives’ Vital Statistics web page where you can search … Continue reading

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Free access to US newspapers on OldNews

MyHeritage is offering free access to the entire collection of US newspaper pages on OldNews.com from July 3 to 5, 2025. No need to set up an account. And there’s no need to sign up for a free trial. Just … Continue reading

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23andMe to be sold to its cofounder and former CEO

A US bankruptcy judge on Friday approved the sale of 23andMe to the nonprofit TTAM Research Institute, owned by cofounder and former CEO of 23andMe Anne Wojcicki. The sale will ensure that the DNA of the company’s customers will not be transferred to … Continue reading

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Acadian genealogist Stephen White appointed to Order of Canada

Governor General Mary Simon announced yesterday that Stephen Adrian White, the author of the Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, is one of 83 new appointments to the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honour, for his contribution to Acadian genealogy. … Continue reading

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