Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Celebrating 150 Years of the Royal Canadian Artillery by Patricia Greber on My Genealogy Life.
No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree.
British Columbia Ancestors: Medical Life in the early 20th Century by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
Coming to Ancestry, Canadiana adds 340 New Serials and Europeans in East Africa by John D. Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Dutch Genealogy News for May 2021 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy.
Cork Archives releases more free-to-view digitised burial registers by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News.
1940 Census Dataset Released by Nancy Loe on Sassy Jane Genealogy.
Lineage Society Applications: A Hidden Genealogy Resource by Amie Bowser Tennant on The Genealogy Reporter.
New Library Lookup Service—For When You Can’t Visit the Family History Library by Diane Sagers on FamilySearch Blog.
Why Was the Information Removed from Online? by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
Why My Family Tree is Exploding in Size by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree.
Cleaning up the databases by Donna Moughty on Irish Family Roots.
Review: Tracing Your Poor Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Stuart A. Raymond by Carol MacKay on The 929 Bookcase.
Book Review – New Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy by Julie Cahill Tarr on Julie’s Genealogy & History Hub.
From Our Library – Tracing Your Huguenot Ancestors by Anne Morddel on The French Genealogy Blog.
Genealogy Quebec celebrates its 10th anniversary! by François Desjardins on Généalogie et histoire du Québec.
How each DNA testing site could be better and Find potential Y-DNA and mtDNA testers by Jonny Perl on DNA Painter Blog.
Building that mtDNA database by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.
New Genetic Groups Filter at MyHeritage by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Podcast
Lesser-Used French-Canadian Resources at Ancestry.com-Part 3 hosted by Sandra Goodwin on Maple Stars and Stripes.
Articles
The graves were never a secret: Why so many residential school cemeteries remain unmarked by Tristin Hopper, National Post, Toronto, Ontario.
Identifying children’s remains at B.C. residential school stalled by lack of records by Nick Wells, Canadian Press.
Archives ‘replace hands that have vanished and lips that are sealed’ by Susanna McLeod, Kingston Whig-Standard, Ontario.
South Peace Regional Archives heading for new home in Centre 2000 by Randy Vanderveen, Fort McMurray Today, Alberta.
National Archives grant will fund Pittsburgh records digitization, ‘a real boon’ for genealogy by Ashley Murray, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pennsylvania.
Genealogy has been a hot pandemic activity. Here’s how you can get started. by Amanda Zhou, Seattle Times, Washington.
Marion Pierce Carter’s long-lost stone memorial tablet comes home by Frank Mulligan, Wicked Local,
What genetic analysis reveals about the ancestry of South Africa’s Afrikaners, The Conversation, Toronto, Ontario.
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