Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
FamilySearch Labs: Full-Text Search by Dr. Margaret M. McMahon on A Week of Genealogy.
New Canadian Collections on MyHeritage and More Maps from the National Library of Scotland, with Canadian Coverage by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
More Minneapolis and Hennepin County City Directories Now Online by Paula Stuart-Warren on Genealogy by Paula.
What to Do with Inherited Genealogy by Gena Philibert-Ortega on GenealogyBank Blog.
Enough already yet! by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.
EMERGENCY!!! California Digital Newspapers Collection by Debbie Mascot on California Genealogical Society Blog.
2025 52 Ancestors: At the Library – First Outing to FamilySearch in Salt Lake City by Kira D. Foltz on Contagious Genealogy: A Pandemic.
One Generation Back for $27 Plus an Eight Week Wait and When Was That Volunteer Last Active on Find A Grave? by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
Boston Union Workhouse and Sarah Jane (Miller) Creer (1841-1902): Using AI to Add Historical Context by Diana Elder on Family Locket.
Genealogy Research & the Wayback Machine by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
4-Tool Combo Solves a DNA Problem by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.
Just Book It by Lori Samuelson on Genealogy At Heart.
10 Ways I Use Artificial Intelligence in my Genealogy Research (with prompts) and Dear Grandpa Glover, From the Granddaughter You Never Met by Brenda Leyndyke on Journey to the Past.
Discovering the Woman Before the Title: Who was Mom BC (Before Children)? by Beth Farrar on Beth Farrar.
Forgotten Ancestors: Remembering Henry William Chiddicks by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree.
Discover’s Ancient Connections – How Are You Related? by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Articles
Hudson’s Bay Company records give public chance to ‘reconnect’ with ancestors by Brittany Hobson, Canadian Press.
A dying wish, forgotten boxes, and a lost Holocaust archive rediscovered by Erik Rolfsen, University of British Columbia Magazine, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has deep Irish roots by Kerry O’Shea, IrishCentral, New York, New York.
Michigan library working to rescue thousands of stories from gathering dust by Skyla Jewell-Hammie, Michigan Live, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
White smoke, Black pope? Pope Leo XIV, first American pontiff, has African roots by Nate Tinner-Williams, Black Catholic Messenger, San Francisco, California.
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.
