Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Was Your Ancestor a Ship Owner? Ship’s Registries at the LAC by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
The Registry of Deeds in Ireland by Jenny Joyce on Jennyalogy.
FindMyPast adds more than 2.3million Irish Court records by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News.
Ancestry adds six National Archives of Ireland collections by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES.
Was Your Ancestor in Debtors’ Prison? by Lorine McGinnis Shulze on Olive Tree Genealogy.
Indiana: Digitized County Histories by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
Pullman Employee Cards by Annette on AK’s Genealogy Research.
Best Websites for Old Maps of the Netherlands by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy News.
Challenges in Indigenous Archiving by Christian Isbister on University of Alberta Library News Blog.
Residential Schools: The Death of Families by Wayne Shepheard on Discover Genealogy.
Genealogists: Do Your Biographies! by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy.
Book Review: Our Village Ancestors, A Genealogist’s Guide to Understanding England’s Rural Past – Helen Osborn by Jane Roberts on PastToPresentGenealogy.
How to Read E-Books for Free Without Pirating Them by Aisha Jordan on Lifehacker.
A Personal Library Without Books by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
FamilyTreeDNA Relaunch – New Feature Overview by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
A Nice New Feature at DNApainter.com by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper’s Blog.
GEDmatch One To Many Report (2021 Guide) and Using GEDmatch One To One Comparison Reports (2021) by Margaret O’Brien on Data Mining DNA.
Article
This teacher buys old photos of strangers from flea markets — then tracks down their relatives to return them by Steve Annear, Boston Globe, Massachusetts.
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.
