Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
ScotlandsPeople continues to sort out the bugs and The National Records of Scotland needs to reset its relationship with its user base by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES.
Where the bodies are buried by John Grenham on Irish Roots.
The Financial Health of Canadian Genealogical Societies 2021 by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Worldwide Holocaust Memorial Monuments Digital Database Is Launched by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
Final Resting Places of the Last Generation of My Family in Poland by Julie Roberts Szczepankiewicz on From Shepherds and Shoemakers.
FindMyPast. . . Definitely Not Rubbish by Teresa Basińska Eckford on Writing my past.
It’s Not Online? Maybe It Is! Accessing Unindexed Records by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
Secret Mother? Friend? Midwife? Who Is That Woman On the Birth Record? by Anne Morddel on The French Genealogy Blog.
Don’t Get Over-Ambitious with Your Family Tree by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree.
Saving Grace by Jeff Record on Vita Brevis.
Concepts: Your Matches on the Same Segments Are NOT Necessarily Related to Each Other by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Articles
A happy ending to a sad 140-year-old mystery by John DeMont, Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Roots: The Highs and Lows of Family History by Paul Jones, Canada’s History, Calgary, Alberta.
A moment that changed me: my grandmother was moved into a home – and her history erased by Catherine Donnelly, The Guardian, London, England.
A stranger called. He had photos of her family from the Holocaust era. by Cathy Free, Washington Post, 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.
