Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Ontario Update by Sherri on CanadaGenWeb’s Cemetery Project.
10 Clever Ways to Find More Ancestor Articles While Searching Old Newspapers Online by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
Match Categories at FamilyTreeDNA by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy.
It’s not the end of the world by Michelle Simmons Lewis on Ancestoring.
8 YouTube Channels to Improve Your Genealogy Skills by Lynn Palermo on The Armchair Genealogist.
25 New Videos in the Past Month from the BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star.
Articles
Library and Archives opens vaults to public tours, CBC, Ottawa.
P.E.I. publisher revises MacLeod family history book, CBC, Prince Edward Island.
The secret legacy of the man who caught Louis Riel by Eric Andrew-Gee, Globe and Mail, Toronto.
Moncton museum digs into old graves — without turning earth by Kate Letterick, CBC, Moncton.
U of T students dig into library archives, team up with Toronto Ward Museum for exhibit on Canadian migration, University of Toronto News.
Why is there a monument to 1,186 Irish emigrants in Toronto? by James Patterson, The Irish Times, Dublin.
Dartmouth tartan unveiled by Debra Wells-Hopey, Dartmouth (Nova Scotia) Tribune.
For more gems like these throughout the week, join the Genealogy à la carte Facebook group. Note that when you submit your request to join, you must answer two questions about your family history research.
Thanks for including the article on the capture/surrender of Louis Riel. It would never otherwise have come to my attention.
Thank you for this Gail. I thought I would let you know that your link to “10 Clever Ways to Find More Ancestor Articles While Searching Old Newspapers Online ” just goes to the homepage, I scrolled down and found it, but future readers will not. Great list.
I corrected the link. Thanks for letting me know. Much appreciated!
You are welcome!