Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Getting a Sense of Community through the Community Stories Collection by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
Vital Records Newly Available by Diane Boumenot on One Rhode Island Family.
Arizona: Digitized County Histories and Iowa: Digitized County Histories by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
Best U.S. Newspaper Archives For Genealogy Research and Newspapers.com Review And Guide by Margaret O’Brien on Data Mining DNA.
A new tool for searching institutions in the 1911 census by John Grenham on Irish Roots.
Ireland’s VO Revision Books: one year to full online access? by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News.
How I did it…locating more newspaper stories related to my ancestors… by Teresa Basińska Eckford on Writing my past.
Introducing the Wilson Collection of New Zealand Family History Records by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
Mind the Gap! by Dr. Sophie Kay on The Parchment Rustler.
Connecting Descendants of Enslaved and Enslavers by Sunny Morton on Your DNA Guide Blog.
Pssst! What Happens to Family History Secrets? and Keeping Up Connections Between the Generations by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
Reinventing Themselves Has Been Launched by Janice Hamilton on Genealogy Ensemble.
Divided Loyalties by Amy Whorf McGuiggan on Vita Brevis.
Dad’s Wisdom: Navigating This Cascade of Grief – 52 Ancestors #336 by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
When I first left home by Don Taylor on Don Taylor Genealogy.
Generate a tree from the Shared cM Tool by Jonny Perl on DNA Painter Blog.
How Many Men Discover or Confirm Their Surname with Y DNA Testing? by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Articles
Dead reckoning: Canada’s national cemetery is bringing truth about residential schools to light by Alistair Steele, CBC, Ottawa, Ontario.
Catholic group to release all records from B.C. and Saskatchewan residential schools, Canadian Press.
Grave of first Canadian-born Black lawyer finally gets headstone in Saint John by Nojoud Al Mallees, CBC, New Brunswick.
The race to save African-American cemeteries from being ‘erased’ by Carey L. Biron, Reuters, Washington, DC.
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.
