Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
Beginner’s Guide: Finding Ontario Civil Death Registrations [Update] by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots.
Intro to German Genealogy: Practical Tips for Family History Research by Beccy Martin on Legacy Tree Genealogists.
Another 9 Million Records Boost the Largest WWII Soldier Database of the Former USSR by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family.
The Deerfield Massacre by James L. Swanson: Book Review by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
Artifacts + Context = Family History Story by Marian Burk Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
Telling Your Life Story in Bullet Points by Gena Philibert-Ortega on Legacy News.
2 Free Tools Can Read Document Images for You by DiAnn Iamarina Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.
Perplexed But Learning by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.
Retesting my DNA at MyHeritage by Louis Kessler at Behold Genealogy.
Articles
Digital Collections of Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian Communities, Pacific Mountain Regional Council of the United Church of Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia.
She was the closest she’d ever been to meeting her biological father. Then life dealt her a blow by Megan DeLaire, CTV News, Canada.
Ready, set, scan: National Archives to digitize 500M records by 2026 by Molly Weisner, Federal Times, Arlington, Virginia.
UM-Flint archive collaborates to digitize Flint’s historical Black newspapers by Logan McGrady, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, Michigan.
Mother-and-baby-home investigation to include DNA profiling using genetic material from maternal line by Colm Keena, Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland.
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.
