Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
Thursday Tidbits: MyHeritage Adds Canada, Home Children Immigration Index, 1869-1932 by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
The Klondike Gold Rush: Stories Behind the Search for Gold by Tianyi Fei on University of British Columbia Digitizers’ Blog.
New Indexes to Free NYC Digitized Vital Records by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
The Disappearing Records: Indiana Genealogists Betrayed by Ancestry and FamilySearch! and Using AI to Write A Kent Family Portrait in Court Records on Genealogy At Heart.
Community Webs Digitization Grant Reveals Stories of San Francisco’s Immigrant Communities by Christina Moretta on Internet Archive Blogs.
Scottish Baronial Families, 1250-1750 by Jane Roberts on Past To Present Genealogy.
Unexpected Finds from FamilySearch Labs by DiAnn Iamarino Ohana on Fortify Your Family Tree.
Forgotten Ancestors: Remembering Horatio Nelson Hallsey by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree.
DNA Chutes and Ladders: Strategic Use of Ancestry’s Enhanced Shared Matches by Rick T. Wilson on MyFamilyPattern.com.
To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked two of our earliest Group Project Administrators to share their stories. by Courtney Eberhard on FamilyTreeDNA Blog.
New Mitotree Haplogroups and How to Utilize Them for Genealogy by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Articles
Digital Archive To Collect Century-Old Antislavery Print Material, CKSX-FM, Wallaceburg, Ontario.
Slave trade database moving to Harvard by Christy DeSmith, Harvard Gazette, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
American Ancestors Dedicates Back Bay Headquarters to Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at Grand Opening of the Family Heritage Experience, Boston Real Estate Times, Boston, Massachusetts.
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.
