Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
Black Porter Perspectives: Hospital Ships and Hospital Trains by Jeff Noakes on Library and Archives Canada Blog.
Black Porter Perspectives: Giving Voice to Rail Service During and After the Second World War by Stacey Zembrzycki on Library and Archives Canada Blog.
Land, Archives, and Buried Black History by William Leonard Felepchuk on MOBA (Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives) Blog.
18,000 United States High Schools and Colleges with Free Online Yearbooks by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
Researching in the North East of England and Genealogical Research Before 1538 by Julie Goucher on Anglers Rest.
Who was George Francis Tester? by Lynn Heiden on Family Wise.
René Doucet (c1680-c1731), Lifetime of Incessant Upheaval by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Jasper Killion’s Struggle at Andersonville: The Hidden Importance of Cod Liver Oil by Jon Marie Pearson on The Simple Living Genealogist.
Book Review: The Quest for Annie Moore of Ellis Island by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
A Second Cousin Found – How DNA Helped a Holocaust Survivor Connect to My Family by Lara Diamond on Lara’s Jewnealogy.
Articles
Descendants of freedom seekers featured in Windsor art exhibit by Josiah Sinanan, CBC News, Windsor, Ontario.
How one Chicago woman’s genealogical search led her to a potter’s field in Canada by Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, Illinois.
The plan to scan: digitizing out-of-copyright publications, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Legacy of Slavery expands work with oldest genealogical nonprofit in U.S. by Andrea Perera, Harvard Review, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Deputy archivist of the U.S. to retire following Trump firing of National Archives chief by Keith Sharman, CBS News, New York, New York.
White House forcing out top leadership at National Archives in major shakeup by Jamie Gangel, CNN, Atlanta, Georgia.
Police investigate as mysterious QR-codes appear on 1,000 graves by Rich Booth, MSN, 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.
