Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
How an Ottawa journalist found my lost family village by Linda Yip on Past Presence.
Canadian Pacific Steamships Limited by Penny Allen on UK to Canada.
The strong efforts to post archive records online continue throughout Ukraine by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family.
Eastern European Newspapers by Lara Diamond on Lara’s Jewnealogy.
The Joy of Tithe Records: Finding an Ancestor’s Home & More by Judith Batchelor on Family Wise.
FamilySearch Full-Text Search Update — 12 February 2025 by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings.
Change, Monitor, Hands Off? by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
Why Your Favorite Genealogy Content Is Disappearing (And How to Fix It) and Rediscovering My Life in 1978 Tehran Through My Mother’s Letters by Jon Marie Pearson on The Simple Living Genealogist.
Bluesky Lists by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.
My MyHeritage MyStories Book: “Randy Seaver’s Life Stories” by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings.
History Is All Around Us by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree.
FamilyTreeDNA’s New Matrix Shows How Your Matches Are Related to Each Other by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
WATO vs WATO plus by Jonny Perl on DNA Painter Blog.
What I Learned from My FamilyTreeDNA Tree Transfer to MyHeritage by Dave Vance on FamilyTreeDNA Blog.
Articles
Preserving the past: Archives in our community by Ian McKechnie, Advocate, Lindsay, Ontario.
An online database of abandoned Jewish tombstones has been created in Lviv by Marina Buzovska, Pragmatika, Kyiv, Ukraine.
From Ancestry to Archives: How Libraries Are Revolutionizing Family Tree Research by Sydney Smith, Library Science Degrees Online, United States.
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.
