Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Millions of Free Scanned Church Records from Moscow Posted Online by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family.
Dutch Genealogy News for December 2020 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy.
TNA continues free access to digital documents during lockdown and ScotlandsPeople adds quarter of a million records in annual update by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES.
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Part 4: Records in Ireland by Jessica Morgan on Family Locket.
100 Years Without the 1890 Census: Tips for Researching Through Record Loss on Legacy Tree Genealogists.
New Brunswick’s Militia and Home Defence During the Great War by Brent Wilson on Borealia.
‘Brown Babies’: The children born to black GI and white British women during the Second World War by Lucy Bland and Chamion Caballero on The National Archives Blog.
Watch It on Replay: Access the MyHeritage Facebook LIVES of 2020 by Talya on MyHeritage Blog.
Book Review: German Immigrants in American Church Records by Bobbi King on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
Keeping Your Family History Research On Track by Jane Roberts on PastToPresentGenealogy.
I’ve Started My 2021 Yearbook by Ellen Thompson-Jennings on Family History Hound.
Factually speaking… by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.
Dave Lorente RIP by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Bryan Sykes, R.I.P. by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
Genetic Genealogy at 20 Years: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going and What’s Important? and myDNA Merges With FamilyTreeDNA and Gene by Gene by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Articles
This N.S. historian spent years researching the Spanish flu. Now she’s living in a pandemic by Richard Woodbury, CBC, Nova Scotia.
Spanish flu hit Prince George hard, Citizen archives show by Ted Clarke, Prince George Citizen, British Columbia.
Tales of Chinese-Canadians in Vancouver through the decades brought to life, from their struggles to cultural impact by Bernice Chan, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, China.
U.S. Archivist David S. Ferriero Responds to Capitol Riots, National Archives, Washington, DC.
AG Ferguson battles on multiple fronts to save Seattle’s National Archives by Feliks Banel, MyNorthwest, Seattle, Washington.
‘Our history is contained there’: loss of archive threatens Native American tribes, The Guardian, London, England.
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