Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Genealogy gold, part 1: the who, what, why, where and how of local history books in the Canadian prairies by Linda Yip on Past Presence.
An Anglophone’s Tips for Searching Ancestry’s The Drouin Collection: Quebec Vital & Church Records by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots.
Those Other Franco-Americans: Berlin, N.H., Part I by Patrick Lacroix on Query the Past.
A Guide to Online Resources for Teaching and Learning Acadian History in Higher Education and A Guide to Online Resources for Teaching and Learning Acadian History in K-12 by Andrea Eidinger on Unwritten Histories.
Dutch Genealogy News for July 2019 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy.
Statistical Accounts of Scotland site now completely free by Chris Paton on The GENES Blog.
Using Ancestry’s Card Catalog by Jena Altman Hamilton on Geneosity.
Create a Research Map with Google My Maps by Devon Noel Lee on Family History Fanatics.
Book Review: Organize Your Genealogy by Jennifer Wiebe on Jennealogie.
Recreate Your Ancestor’s DNA with the GEDmatch Lazarus Tool by Andy Lee on Family History Fanatics.
The Chromosome Browser: A Tool for Visualizing Segment Data by Nicole Dyer on Family Locket.
Segment Triangulation: Proving an Ancestral Line by Diana Elder on Family Locket.
23andme Now Connects to the FamilySearch World Tree by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper’s Blog.
Articles
Restoration nearly complete on staircase leading into Windsor’s oldest Protestant cemetery by Carole Morris-Underhill, Hants Journal, Kentville, Nova Scotia.
All biographies of every MLA in Nova Scotia’s history available online, HalifaxToday, Nova Scotia.
Tracing your Irish roots? A guide to Irish birth, death, and marriage records by Eileen M. ÓDúill, IrishCentral, New York, New York.
Ever wonder what your last name is in Irish? This online database can tell you! by Sheila Langan, IrishCentral, New York, New York.
The National Hellenic Museum Launches Free Online Collections & Archives Portal, National Herald, Long Island, New York.
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I missed some of these excellent posts – I’m so glad I can check out the ones you find every week!! Thanks so much for your genealogy work! Much appreciated.