Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Yukon Ancestors: Find your Yukon ancestors with the Yukon & Alaska Genealogy Centre by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
W.R. Chorley’s Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War by Andrew on Local History & Genealogy (Toronto Public Library).
The “Lost” 1820 U.S. Census Records Have Been Found by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
Best Genealogy Sites for Irish Research: Where your ancestor lived by Donna Moughty on Irish Family Roots.
Pack HeritageMaps.ie for genealogical research trips by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News.
Russian State Public Historical Library offers amazing free genealogy document scans by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family.
Quick Tip – Image bank at Archieven.nl by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy News.
Use Ancestor Projects to try to break your brick wall by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD.
Lessons From Breaking Down a Brick Wall by Amy Johnson Crow on Amy Johnson Crow.
An Ancestor By Any Other Name by Janice Nickerson on Ancestry Canada Blog.
How I found out I’m descended from a Mayflower crew member by Tasmin Todd on Findmypast Blog.
Margaret Votes by Dorothy Nixon on Genealogy Ensemble.
A Birks Memorial Bar and the Perth Regiment Facebook Group by Anna Matthews on Tripping Over My Roots.
Prepare for Disaster & Preserve Your Family History by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
Found family photo… by Teresa Eckford on Writing my past.
DNA Research Flow by Robin Wirthlin on Family Locket.
Articles
N.S. man’s lost military ID tags find their way back to his family 60 years later by Emma Smith, CBC, Nova Scotia.
Upgrades, expansion underway for Cape Breton’s Highland Village Museum by Brent Kelloway, CBC, Nova Scotia.
Sarnia-raised writer inspired by family connection to history by Paul Morden, Observer, Sarnia, Ontario.
UVM prof emeritus gets top Canadian Studies award by Robin Caudell, Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, New York.
A Rare Day-by-Day Document of Life Aboard a Slave Ship by Matthew Taub, Atlas Obscura.
Davenport man learns of link to Underground Railroad by Alma Gaul, Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa.
What’s hiding in your DNA? Being informed and prepared for the unexpected critical to commercial genetic testing kits, says lawyer by Chelsey Gould, Guardian, Nova Scotia.
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.
