Some of the bijoux I discovered this first week of the new year.
Blogs
Digitized Canadian Trench Newspapers: Part 1 of 3 by Steve Clifford on Doing Our Bit.
Using the GRO Index Search – Another Example by Wayne Shepheard on Discover Genealogy.
Digitizing and Going Paperless by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy.
How to Handle a “Dry County”, Tips from an Archivist by Melissa Barker on A Genealogist In The Archives.
ACHESON former RCMP/RNWMP d.1953 Leicester by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy.
What You Need To Know To Organize Your Genealogy by Lisa Lisson on Are You My Cousin?
Genealogy Research History Logs & a Freebie by Caroline M. Pointer on 4YourFamilyStory.
How They Do It: Thomas MacEntee by Janine Adams on Organize Your Family History.
10 Inspiring Genealogists From 2016 by Alona Tester on Lonetester HQ.
17 Genealogy Resolutions for 2017 by Lisa-Dawn Crawley on LDC: The Zombie Genealogist.
My Genea-Plans for 2017 by Bill West on West in New England.
DNA resolutions for 2017 by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.
How to Get Started with Using DNA for Family History by Diahan Southard on Genealogy Gems.
2016 Genetic Genealogy Retrospective by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy.
The Genealogy World of Twenty Years Ago and Paul A. Cyr, R.I.P. by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
All the same in a hundred years on FamilyLetters.
Podcast
The Life of Fille du Roi Jeanne Chevalier by Sandra Goodwin on Maple Stars and Stripes.
Articles
Treasure trove of history excites Archives staff by Stephanie Waddell, Whitehorse (Yukon) Daily Star.
How Thunder Bay Was Made by Travis Hay, ActiveHistory, Canada.
Torontonian Discovers Family’s Links to Underground Railroad by Miria Ioannou, Living Toronto.
At last a blue plaque at the home of Thomas Barnardo in the Bow Road—after 150 years by Mike Brooke, The Docklands & East London Advertiser, London, England.
Over 250,000 Photographs from the George Eastman Museum Go Online by Claire Voon on Hypoallergenic, United States.
National Archives Awards $2.1 Million for Historical Records Projects by National Archives, Washington, DC.
Centuries of New York History Prepare for a Move by Rick Rojas, New York Times.
Thank you very much for the link – and what a treasure trove of blog-posts to read!
I was pleased to learn about your blog, FamilyLetters, on Twitter — and now I’m a follower. I was pleased to include it in this week’s “best of.” Happy reading!
Thanks, Gail, for noting my Digitizing and Going Paperless post.
My pleasure. You wrote a great blog post.
Thqanks for the mention, Gail!
Your blog was a nice discovery for me this week. I look forward to following you.