Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Best Genealogy Sites for Irish Research: National Archives of Ireland by Donna Moughty on Irish Family Roots.
A Recipe for Canadian Family History by Janice Nickerson on Ancestry Canada Blog.
Using Find-A-Grave when there is no burial by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD.
5 Free Tech Tools to Manage Genealogy Research by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
Genealogy competition leads to ice cream party by Geoff Rasmussen on Legacy News.
Plea to Ancestry – Rethink Match Purge Due to Deleterious Effect on African American Genealogists and Identifying Unknown African American Lineages Using DNA by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Ancestry’s Changes Affect Those with Enslaved Ancestors by Franklin Smith on Dana Leeds.
Chilling with AncestryDNA by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.
Major privacy breach at GEDmatch by Debbie Kennett on Cruwys News.
Security alert: malicious phishing attempt detected, possibly connected to GEDmatch breach on MyHeritage Blog.
Ancestry advises users to change password if using Family Tree Maker by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES.
Articles
Historic clothing discovered in cellar of Loyalist House by Alishya Weiland, CBC, New Brunswick.
‘I was found as a baby wrapped in my mum’s coat – but who am I?’ by Claire Bates, BBC, London, England.
Why these Scots visit the graves of strangers by Sarah Wilson, The Scotsman, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Family history research booming amid coronavirus pandemic as more people uncover secrets by Briana Shepherd, ABC, Australia.
Eat Like You’re in the USSR With ‘The Soviet Diet Cookbook’ by Dalia Wolfson, Atlas Obscura.
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.
