Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Ontario Ancestors: School and Teacher Directories on Internet Archive by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
Early Canadian Military Reports 1864-1925 by Patricia Greber on My Genealogy Life.
Untold Moments of WWII – Battle of St. Lawrence by Simon Pearce on Ancestry Canada Blog.
1110 Free United States Online Voter Record Collections by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
Using Finding Aids to Discover Newspapers Around the World by Gena Philibert-Ortega on Legacy News.
10 Surprising Things You Can Find at Google Books by Lisa Louise Cooke on Lisa Louise Cooke.
My Top Ten Free Genealogy Websites – Part 1 by Don Taylor on Don Taylor Genealogy.
Family Photos & Negatives by Cindi Foreman on My Moynahan Genealogy Blog.
Halifax Municipal Archives: Solving Mini Mysteries by Identifying Unidentified Photos on Halifax Public Libraries Blog.
Finding Unidentified Photographs in the Archives by Melissa Barker on A Genealogist In The Archives.
Four Genealogy Books That Will Improve Your Research by Phil Isherwood on Seeing the Wood for the Trees.
Who Owns Ancestry? Hint: It’s not the Mormons and Does Ancestry Own FindAGrave? What You Need To Know by Margaret O’Brien on Data Mining DNA.
What to Do With Floppy Disks? by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
Utilizing MyHeritage AutoClusters to Analyze your DNA Matches and More Losses at 23andMe – Including No Ethnicity Update for V2, V3 or V4 Chip Customers by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Articles
Genealogy Society tracks down owners of 166-year-old Bible by Marc Kitteringham, Campbell River Mirror, British Columbia.
Mysterious 1900s writing box finds a home among Saanich Archives by Devon Bidal, Sooke News Mirror, British Columbia.
What a Houston community is doing to restore abandoned Black cemeteries — and how Latter-day Saints are helping by Sydney Walker, Church News, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Genetic genealogy generates heated debate over privacy while helping to crack cold cases by Colin Freeze and Patrick White, Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario.
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.
