Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Grosse Île and the Irish by Jacques Gagné on Genealogy Ensemble.
52 Ancestors: Week 14 – The craftsman and Canadian Masonic record by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
Mapping the Great Migration by Robert Charles Anderson on Vita Brevis.
London Resources by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.
“Not one penny from an Irishman”: the religious and financial engagement of Irish workers with the Roman Catholic Church on the Rideau Canal, 1831 by Laura J. Smith on Borealia.
A Loyalist! by Christopher C. Child on Vita Brevis.
Those Other Franco-Americans: Exeter, N.H. by Patrick Lacroix on Query the Past.
Ask Yvette – What happened to the population registers from the 1900s? by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy.
Combine Kits into One Superkit on GEDmatch Genesis by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy.
When you’re not you by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.
Articles
Picture this: thousands of Edmonton historical photos online by Adrienne Lamb, CBC, Edmonton, Alberta.
Descendants of Britain’s first care home children come forward after search to identify homeless and disabled youngsters in 150-year-old photos by David Wilkes, Daily Mail, London, England.
This Place in History: Winooski Mills by Amanda Thibault, My Champlain Valley, Burlington, Vermont.
Announcing the Restore the Ancestors 2019 Project: Help Us Index Records for African American Genealogy by Toni Carrier, International African American Museum, Charleston, South Carolina.
Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost by Rupa Shenoy, PRI (Public Radio International), Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Volunteers leave their mark on lonely graves by Shannon Verhagen, Kalgoorlie (Western Australia) Miner.
Film or record your family members before it’s too late by Wendy King, Barrie (Ontario) Today.
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