Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
25 Archives in Toronto by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy.
Extended Embargo Period for Ontario Birth Records and Honouring Alison Hare by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Irish Census Substitutes by Donna Moughty on Irish Family Roots.
Researching Your Ancestors in Concord, New Hampshire by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on Nutfield Genealogy.
Free database on WWII soldiers grows by more than 5 million records by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family.
In Search of a Community’s First Franco-American School by David Vermette on French North America.
War Ration Booklets: Truly Shared Sacrifice by Barbara K. Garrett on Digging for my Roots.
A Summer Reading List for Genealogists by Debra on Fountaindale Public Library Genealogy & Research Blog.
Finding Unidentified Photographs in Archives by Melissa Barker on The In-Depth Genealogist.
The Importance of Teaching Our Children Their Genealogy and Family History by Michele Hibbitts on Geneosity.
Mitochondrial DNA: Part 1 – Overview by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Withdrawing a recommendation by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.
I Should’ve Been an Attorney – Sample Forms for Naming a DNA Beneficiary by Alyson Mansfield on OnGenealogy.
Articles
Remembering the Great Famine — and the Irish refugees who came to Ontario by David Rockne Corrigan, TVO, Kingston, Ontario.
‘I cried when I read it’: Postcard connects Charlottetown home to D-Day by Kevin Yarr, CBC, Prince Edward Island.
Library and Archives Canada offers funds for Indigenous digitization projects by Kahlan Miron, Nunatsiaq News, Iqaluit, Nunavut.
Shining light on a dark chapter of Canada’s history by Carl Hnatyshyn, Sun Times, Owen Sound, Ontario.
The Arrest Of A Teen On An Assault Charge Has Sparked New Privacy Fears About DNA Sleuthing by Peter Aldhous, BuzzFeed News, New York, New York.
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 quick questions about your family history research.
Thanks for mentioning my blog post about genealogy research in Concord, New Hampshire. In the past two weeks I also posted about genealogy research facilities in Manchester, Derry and Londonderry, New Hampshire, too!
Thanks for sharing!