Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
Plans for 1931 Census of Canada release by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Dutch Genealogy News for December 2022 and Records that became public in 2023 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy.
Expanded ‘List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers’ published and Irish Registry of Deeds Index Project expands over festive period by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News.
USCIS proposes BIG fee hike by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.
Wrapping Up 2022: Year in Review by Daniella on MyHeritage Blog.
Start the New Year with Genealogy Kindness by Gena Philibert-Ortega on Legacy News.
Book Recommendation: “Organize Your Genealogy: Strategies and Solutions for Every Researcher” by Drew Smith by Melissa Barker on A Genealogist In The Archives.
Friday Find of the Week: Dad’s Military Uniform from Vietnam by Jen Rickards on Auntie Jen’s Family Trees.
What About Twitter and Mastodon for Genealogy? by Marian Burk Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
GenSoft Review Award Winners 2022 by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy.
Strategies for Overcoming Endogamy by Nicole Dyer on Family Locket.
Articles
Library Archives Canada relaunches website by Diane Peters, University Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario.
After 25 years of searching, Lethbridge woman found her cousins in Transylvania by Saloni Bhurga, CBC, Calgary, Alberta.
The detectorist of the dead aiming to digitise every body in England by Katie Gatens, The Times, London, England.
Trove’s funding runs out in July 2023 – and the National Library is threatening to pull the plug. It’s time for a radical overhaul by Mike Jones and Deb Verhoeven, The Conversation, Australia.
Across Virginia, circuit courts try to reverse an old way of preserving documents by Sarah Vogelsong, Virginia Mercury, Virginia.
Tammy Hepps came to Pittsburgh to research the Jews of Homestead and found Jeff Goldblum by L.E. McCullough, NEXTpittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
How actor Edward Norton is related to Pocahontas by Madeline Halpert, BBC News, New York, New York.
How FBI uses genetic genealogy websites to nail murder suspects like Idaho’s Bryan Kohberger: Agents run DNA through public websites, find their suspect, then secretly (and legally) collect their DNA to match to crime scene by Jennifer Smith, Daily Mail, London, England.
Faces of the dead: The macabre trend for Victorian family photos… when one of the loved ones was already dearly departed by Harry Howard, Daily Mail, London, England.
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.
