Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Going to Court with The Eastern Law Reporter by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
Alberta Prairie Towns – pride in their history by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy.
My May 2021 Webinar: “Finding Our Female Ancestors” and Randy Majors’ “Ancestor Search” Yields Surprising Results by Cindi Moynahan-Foreman on My Moynahan Genealogy Blog.
Finding Irish relatives: Part Three by Joe Smaldone on Vita Brevis.
What’s New? by Donna Moughty on Irish Family Roots.
Free FutureLearn Course – Working Lives in the Factories and Mills by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES.
GenealogyBank Review – And How To Maximize Your Trial by Margaret O’Brien on Data Mining DNA.
A census, rediscovered by Rhonda McClure on Vita Brevis.
University of North Carolina Receives Grant to Expand Digital Library on American Slavery by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
The food here is terrible: Accounts of Merchant Seamen interned in the Second World War by James Cronan on The National Archives Blog.
FamilySearch Remote Access Services Solves a Mystery by Marian B. Wood on climbing My Family Tree.
OPL-LAC Service Transition: Newspapers by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
What’s in Your Toolbox? — DNA Painter’s cM Estimator and Working With WATO: Centimorgan Adjustments by Leah Larkin on The DNA Geek.
Articles
New panels in Africville Park tell story of life in historic Black community by Vernon Ramesar, CBC, Nova Scotia.
Royal B.C. Museum to work with First Nations on residential school records by Nick Wells, Canadian Press.
UNB offers research support to Indigenous communities in wake of Kamloops tragedy by Mrinali Anchan, CBC, New Brunswick.
One family. One cemetery. 500 gravesites. 170 years by Calvi Leon, London Free Press, Ontario.
Montrealers honoured for work preserving sacred Irish burial ground by Dan Spector, Global News, Montreal, Quebec.
FamilySearch Family History Library Reopening, News Release.
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.
