Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
LAC Improves Access to Certain Census Schedules and Rippling Effects of the Great Famine by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Unmarked graves at Glasgow Necropolis indexed and Saturday and Sunday at the OGS conference in Toronto by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES.
The Transnational Quebecs by Patrick Lacroix on Query the Past.
For Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, a tour of our Canada collections! on Geneanet Blog.
Without the Parish: Researching in England Without Baptisms, Marriages, and Burial Part 2- Tax Records by Jessica Morgan on Family Locket.
Enhanced Search Capabilities Added to OldNews.com by Erica on MyHeritage Blog.
Revisiting Those Printed Genealogy Books by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
Hone Your Genealogy Skills with Free Summer Online Education Opportunities by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
Granddaughter Finds Her (Filles du roi) Roots with mtDNA and Historical Records by Georgiann Gibson on FamilyTreeDNA Blog.
Finally, a Reason to Get Ancestry Pro Tools! by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper’s Blog.
AncestryDNA Pro Tools – Shared Matches of Shared Matches Are Great! by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings.
Ancestry ProTools Are Improving But the Elite Tree Badge Is Deceiving by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name.
Articles
Improved online access to historical records, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
‘A history of ordinary people’: Forgotten documents discovered at one of Vancouver’s oldest family clan associations by Joanne Lee-Young, Vancouver Sun, British Columbia.
A warm reception: Canada’s children of the Blitz by Alex Bowers, Legion Magazine, Kanata, Ontario.
137,859 historic OS maps of England and Wales go online for free by Rosemary Collins, Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, Bristol, England.
After 70 years, DNA test reunites 3 long-lost siblings across the pond by Amy Judd, Global News, Canada.
‘I took DNA test for fun – but discovered a horrific truth about my family’ by Paige Freshwater, Mirror, London, England.
Historic documents destroyed in fire at Archives Department by Dawne Parris, Barbados Today, Bridgetown, Barbados.
Taylor Swift’s Irish roots traced ahead of her sold-out Dublin shows, IrishCentral, New York, New York.
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.
