Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
The Catholic registers are rotting by John Grenham on Irish Roots.
The Old Kildonan Church and Cemetery – “Where the Selkirk Settlers Sleep” by Natassja Brien on The Official Blog of Heritage Winnipeg.
Alberta Genealogy Trippers – a trip to London, England by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy.
Day 13 – National Library and Day 14 – Valuation Office and EPIC by Donna Moughty on Donna’s Irish Genealogy Resources.
5 Tips for Finding Unique Genealogical Records in Archives by Melissa Barker on A Genealogist In The Archives.
3 Ways to Find Your Ancestors in a Huge Pile of Documents by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree.
Genetic Genealogy YouTube Videos by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Making your existence known to bio family – Should you or shouldn’t you? by Brianne Kirkpatrick on WatershedDNA.
Family Tree DNA’s New Chromosome Browser and Elizabeth Warren’s Native American DNA Results: What They Mean by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained — Genetic Genealogy.
Articles
Time stops in the archives for Jeff O’Brien by Thia James, Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) StarPhoenix.
Lakehead University Archives Making Strides by Caroline Reston, Country105, Thunder Bay, Ontario.
‘Tarontos Lac’: Geographer finds oldest known reference to Toronto on 340-year-old French map by Jasmine Seputis, CBC, Toronto, Ontario.
High-tech devices help archeologists uncover Old Burying Ground’s secrets by Aya Al-Hakim, CBC, Nova Scotia.
Westmount’s Mountainside Church sold to local real-estate developers by P.A.Sevigny, Suburban, Montreal, Quebec.
The peculiar history of the Ordnance Survey, BBC, London, England.
What was life like as a 19th-century servant? by Pamela Sambroke, BBC HistoryExtra, London, England.
How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations by Heather Murphy, New York Times.
You Are Not Your DNA by Faye Flam, Bloomberg, New York, New York.
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