Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
A Reel Challenge for the 1871 Census of Canada by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots.
Canadiana adds St John newspapers by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Aviation photographs from first half of 1900s by Marina de Souza on Digitizers’ Blog.
House History Real Property Appraisal Cards by Bronwyn Smyth on AuthentiCity.
Scottish Handwriting 1500-1700: A Self-Help Pack available online for free by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES.
Sources for Irish Women’s History moved from CD to online by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News.
Artificial Intelligence Makes More Than 2.5 Million Russian Archive Records Accessible to All by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family.
Ancestry to Delete WorldConnect Trees and Shut Down RootsWeb Mailing Lists – Prepare NOW by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Family History as Ancestors Lived It by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
Are Family History Writing Prompts the Easy Way to Tell Stories? by Prudence on The Creative Family Historian.
Friday’s Photo: It Worked! Using a Wildcard in My Search to Identify This Photo of Henry Green Davis of Bienville Parish, Louisiana by Diana Bryan Quinn on Moments in Time, A Genealogy Blog.
How to Organize Your Family History: Paper Documents by Elizabeth Swanay O’Neal on Heart of the Family.
Creating a virtual RootsTech playlist by Janine Adams on Organize Your Family History.
Exploring the RootsTech 2023 App – Part 1 and Part 2 by Jana Iverson on Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog.
RootsTech 2023 Virtual: The Free Event on FamilyTreeDNA Blog.
Articles
The frontier chronicles of the Fugina family by Farley Wuth, Pincher Creek Echo, Alberta.
Mohawk Valley Kinship research project gets $50k grant, Two Row Times, Ohsweken, Ontario.
Adopted Romanian siblings separated for decades reunited in Toronto thanks to DNA test by Salma Ibrahim and Ismaila Alfa, CBC News, Toronto, Ontario.
Family history knowledge helps American adolescents develop healthy sense of identity by Christie Allen, BYU News, Salt Lake City, Utah.
UNH Library Digitizes Town Reports for Entire Granite State by Keith Testa, UNH Today, Durham, New Hampshire.
Tracing my ancestors’ Great Migration by train by Sheeka Sanahori, Washington Post, DC.
The young Anglo-Indians retracing their European roots by Cherylann Mollan, BBC News, India.
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.
