Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
Revisit – Library and Archives Canada RG 8, C Series How-To by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots.
Federal Indian Day Schools: Education under the Indian Act—what did this mean for Métis Nation and Inuit children? by William Benoit and Alyssa White on Library and Archives Canada Blog.
Update to Western Canada Online Genealogy Chats by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy.
Thursday Tidbits by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
For Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, a tour of our Canada collections! by Sean Daly on Geneanet Blog.
Franco-American genealogy records with the L’Heureux name by Julianna L’Heureux on Juliana’s Substack.
Scanned records and a database offer hard-to-find information on Russian immigrants by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family.
TreeSearcher Website Coming to an End by Laverne Aitchison on TreeSearcher.
What you are Missing if you Aren’t Using Family Search for your Genealogy by Kelly Wheaton on Wheaton Wood.
Using the Newspapers.com Map Feature by Jenny Ashcraft on Fishwrap.
Genealogy with a Twist: What Did My Ancestors Smell Like? by Brenda Leyndyke on Journey to the Past.
The Free ChatGPT4 AI Tool Can Sharpen and Colorize Faded and/or Black and White Photographs by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings.
Do You Have a Genealogical Codicil? by Jennifer Jones on Tracking Down The Family.
Father’s Day: Bravery and Love and Francoise Bourgeois (c1659-1693/97), High Drama in Beaubassin and Terror at Port Royal – 52 Ancestors #448 by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Memories of My Father: Bobby Gene Shults (1927-2011) by Diana Elder on Family Locket.
Gunner John Hunter, World War 1 by Sandra McHugh on Genealogy Ensemble.
A Breakthrough in my German DNA by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper’s Blog.
Articles
Meet the Defiant Loyalists Who Paid Dearly for Choosing the Wrong Side in the American Revolution by Greg Daughtery, Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, DC.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr wins Newberry Award by Judy Carmack Bross, Chicago Magazine, Illinois.
The Church of Jesus Christ and FamilySearch digitize 760,000 images for National Archives, Dominican Today, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Pre-excavation works begin at former Mother and Baby Home in Co Galway by Kerry O’Shea, IrishCentral, New York, New York.
She Said the Remains of 800 Babies Were Buried Beneath a Home — and People Dismissed Her by Christina Coulter, People Magazine, New York, New York.
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