Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
Snapshots of British Columbia’s Ghost Towns: Part 1—The Corbin Miners’ Strike by Jill Henderson on Digitizer’s Blog.
Finding Scotland’s Place Names and Research Documents and Letters With Artificial Intelligence by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
I Tried the “One Good Prompt” by Nancy G. Carver on Legacy Carvers.
AI as a Partner: Embracing Change in the Genealogy World by Jon Marie Pearson on The Simple Living Genealogist.
How Newspapers Can Lead to Other Sources by Jen Rikards on Auntie Jen’s Trees.
Mom’s Recipe Book by Mary Sutherland on Genealogy Ensemble.
News Reports of Kathleen Southwood Barnes Slatter in Vancouver by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
The Day Everything Changed by Jenny Mackey on Jenny’s Scrapbook of Family History Stories.
The Fragility of Childhood Before Vaccines by Amerly Peterson Beck on The Genealogy Girl.
The Summer We Left the House and Never Looked Back: A Nostalgic Journey Into Childhood Summers by Beth Farrar on Beth Farrar.
Recent improvements to the matrix tool by Jonny Perl on DNA Painter Blog.
Articles
Canada’s Archives Are in Trouble—and So Is Its History by Mark Bourrie, The Walrus, Toronto, Ontario.
RIP, John Parry, it was much too long by Collin Gallant, Sunny South News, Coaldale, Alberta.
175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, IrishCentral, Dublin, Ireland.
7 Steps for Handling Sensitive Subjects in Family History Interviews by Rhonda Lauritzen, Family Tree Magazine, Dublin, New Hampshire.
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.
