Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
New Brunswick Loyalist Journeys: Meet the Loyalist Youth by Leah Grandy on Atlantic Loyalist Connections.
The Italians at BAnQ by Jacques Gagné on Genealogy Ensemble.
Archives Online – Maps and Plans on Open Book (National Records of Scotland).
Workhouse Records On Ancestry.com and Workhouse Records On Findmypast by Margaret O’Brien on Data Mining DNA.
OS200 Project to create free online resource for Ireland’s historical Ordnance Survey maps and texts by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News.
Database Locates More Than 270,000 Vanished Villages from Maps by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family.
1950 US Census: “Separated” Added as Marital Status, 1950 US Census: Putting Reported Income In Context, and Where Are Your Family’s Artifacts? by Marian Burk Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
Double-check those online repository reference numbers… by Teresa Basińska Eckford on Writing my past.
Second-hand Store Find: Green Family Cookbook by Diane Tibert on Roots to the Past.
Is a Family History Blog the Best Way to Share Your Ancestral Stories? by Prudence on The Creative Family Historian.
Genealogy and care work by Audrey Pepin on Généalogie et histoire du Québec.
When History and Genealogy Come Together by Dorothy Nixon on Genealogy Ensemble.
MyHeritage Now Has Colored Dots! by Dr. Leah Larkin on The DNA Geek.
A Strategy for Using MyHeritage’s Brand New DNA Match Labels by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Automated DNA Icons in Your Ancestry Tree by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper’s Blog.
Articles
QC: Saskatchewan’s new provincial archivist loves to learn about history by Alec Saloum, Leader-Post, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Macdonald Campus Magazine tells the story of life in wartime Canada by Neale McDevitt, McGill Reporter, Montreal, Quebec.
Online response rate to census questionnaire hits new high, Statistics Canada says, Canadian Press.
Amateur historian works to return WW II service tag to family of N.S. soldier by Cassidy Chisolm, CBC, Nova Scotia.
Almonte family finally lays great-uncle — an unknown soldier for over 100 years — to rest by Ashley Kulp, Inside Ottawa Valley, Ontario.
WW1 soldiers buried in Belgium a century after their deaths, BBC, England.
HMAS Sydney: DNA reveals identity of Australia’s famous ‘unknown sailor,’ BBC, Australia.
Early American Photo Archive Found in a Shed Sells for $300,000, Fine Books & Collections Magazine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Lost — and suddenly found by Joanne Palmer, Jewish Standard, River Edge, New Jersey.
Obituary: ‘Unsung hero’ of science laid the ground work for epic DNA discovery by Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen, Ontario.
How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer by Raffi Khatchadourian, New Yorker, New York, New York.
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