This week’s crème de la crème — May 23, 2020

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.

Blogs
Genealogy in Canadian towns – Hanna, Alberta by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy.

British Columbia Ancestors: Historical BC Government Gazette Online by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.

What to Know When Searching Quebec Notary Records by Sharon Callaghan on Ancestry Canada.

When will LAC reopen? by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.

970 Links Now Available for Free Online Historical Voter Lists by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.

New WWII Databases Reveal Amazing Information, Honoring 75th Anniversary of Victory by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family.

Learning to Research in a New Country by Diana Elder on Family Locket.

9 Unexpected Places to Find Ancestor Photos by Elizabeth O’Neal on Heart of the Family.

Pandemic De-Cluttering and a Heirloom Book by Jacqueline Krieps Schattner on Seeds to Tree.

Giving it away by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.

Genealogy Myths by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.

Articles
Long abandoned cemetery gets much needed facelift near Brockville by Nathan Vandermeer, CTV, Ottawa, Ontario.

Canada: DNA discovery lends weight to First Nations ancestral story by Leyland Cecco, The Guardian, London, England.

From Print to Digital: Making Over a Million Archived Photos Searchable by Jonathan Henry, New York Times, New York, New York.

Public asked to solve Scottish archive picture mystery, BBC, Scotland.

Fire damages digital archives of Armenia’s National Library, OC Media, Caucasus.

Organize and Preserve Your Photo Prints in 5 Steps by Maureen A. Taylor, Family Tree Magazine, Blue Ash, Ohio.

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.