Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Probate Records Part 2: Newfoundland and PEI by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
Utilizing Trench Maps: Part 1 – Digitized and offline Resources by Steve Clifford on Doing Our Bit.
Identifying a WW1 Uniform of a UK or Canadian Ancestor by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on Olive Tree Genealogy.
126 Obituary and Obituary Index Links from Canada by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
1926 Census News: wait some more and Vancouver Island Newspaper Digitization by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.
At the centre of it all: Library and Archives Canada’s Vancouver Office by Caitlin Webster on Library and Archives Canada Blog.
Heritage At Risk: former Carnegie Library – City of Winnipeg Archives by Natassja Brien on The Official Blog of Heritage Winnipeg.
Review: Plantations in Ulster, 1600-41 – A Collection of Documents by Chris Paton on The GENES Blog.
The Poor Law is still with us by John Grenham on Irish Roots.
Millions of records added to WWII database by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family.
Forgotten Seafarers of the First World War on Heritage Calling.
Are You a Family Historian or a Name Collector?s by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
Let’s Stop Trashing Family Photos and Every Picture Tells a Story: Searching for Harry’s by Maureen Taylor on Maureen Taylor.
OCR and non-Latin text by Paula Arasaki on UBC Library Digitization Centre.
DNA Painter: The Tool that Helps You Find Links Between Your DNA Matches by Melody Lassalle on Genealogy Research Journal.
Getting Started with Genome Mate Pro, Part 1 — Install the Program and Getting Started with Genome Mate Pro, Part 2 — Set Up a Profile for a GEDmatch User by Leah Larkin On The DNA Geek.
Updated “ethnicity” estimates at AncestryDNA by Debbie Kennett on Cruwys news.
New: MyHeritage Adds Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) to Secure Your Account on MyHeritage Blog.
Articles
DNA for sale: Ancestry wants your spit, your DNA and your trust. Should you give it to them? by Stuart Leavenworth, Toronto Star.
New state-of-the-art U of A archival facility set to open by Bev Betkowski, folio.ca, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.
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