Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Newfoundland Ancestors: Newfoundland’s Grand Banks by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
Canada Now Has a National British Home Child Day on chamelionfire1.
Home Child Bonuses by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Pictures of the First World War by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy.
Booth Poverty Maps and Notebooks by Linda Elliott on Mad About Genealogy.
Thank you, LOC! and Don’t forget the surname projects by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.
Ambitious Project to Digitize Hundreds of Thousands of New Zealand Probate Records Complete after Nine Years and All Digital Collections at the Swedish National Archives are now FREE to Search and View by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
Visual Phasing with Two Siblings and a Niece/Nephew by Leanne Cooper on Leanne Cooper Genealogy.
Articles
French-American immigration – five resource books by Juliana L’Heureux, Bangor (Maine) Daily News.
How Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50 million pages of newspapers in his living room by Alexandria Neason, Columbia Journalism Review, New York, New York.
Hidden cemeteries of Essex County hold Underground Railroad history by Meg Roberts, CBC, Windsor, Ontario.
Pioneer life 100 years ago not so rugged: historian by Kevin Hampson, Daily Herald-Tribune, Grande Prairie, Alberta.
Remnants of Upper Canada’s first Parliament site buried under a Toronto car wash, CBC Radio, Toronto, Ontario.
Digital project to recreate public record office destroyed by fire announced, Trinity News and Events, Dublin, Ireland.
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.