Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Finding Your Ancestors in BC and Alberta by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy.
Persistence Pays Off: My Finding Aid is linked to from Library and Archives Canada by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on Olive Tree Genealogy.
Settler Records, Indigenous Histories: Challenges in Indigenous Genealogical Research by Stacey Devlin and Emily Cuggy on Active History.
LAC Signatures: Fall/Winter 2017 by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Parish Baptism Registers by Linda Elliott on Mad About Genealogy.
Latest developments at PRONI in Belfast by Chris Paton on The GENES Blog.
Doing a Genealogy Research Project from Start to Finish by Nicole Dyer on Family Locket.
What Does That Say Again?!: More Palaeography Basics, Part 2 by Leah Grandy on Atlantic Loyalist Connections.
Google for Genealogy: Search tricks to tease out information by Jessica Taylor on MyHeritage Blog.
Sloppy Reporting? Or, How Not to Choke When Indulging in Free Online Content by Elizabeth Shown Mills on Evidence Explained.
Evernote for Digitizing Genealogy Records by Jennifer Dondero on The Occasional Genealogist.
A Tutorial: The Ancestry.com Member Directory by Lisa Lisson on Are You My Cousin?
My mtDNA results are in! by Linda Sufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
Testing Strategy – Should I Test at Ancestry and Transfer to Family Tree DNA? by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy.
Articles
Best Genealogy Books Results by Andrew Koch, Family Tree Magazine (US).
The Irish DNA Atlas: Revealing Fine-Scale Population Structure and History within Ireland by Edmund Gilbert, Seamus O’Reilly, Michael Merrigan, Darren McGettigan, Anne M. Molloy, Lawrence C. Brody, Walter Bodmer, Katarzyna Hutnik, Sean Ennis, Daniel J. Lawson, James F. Wilson and Gianpiero L. Cavalleri, Nature Research, London, England.
Saint Mary’s University historian creating Halifax Explosion database by Meghan Groff, Halifax Today.
What happens to archives of community newspapers shut down in the Torstar-Postmedia deal? by Kate Dubinski, CBC, London, Ontario.
War medal reunited with Toronto soldier’s family after Star story by Vjosa Isai, Toronto Star.
For more gems like these throughout the week, join the Genealogy à la carte Facebook group. When you submit your request to join, you will be asked to answer two questions about your family history research.
Hi Gail, Thanks for including my mtDNA results post on your list this week. It is appreciated. Happy Holidays!