Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
LAC and the Budget Cut and Searching Anglo-Celtic Roots by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Updated listing of Riflemen who served during the South Africa, or Boer, War 1899-1902 on The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archive Blog.
Maine rivers were a magnet for French-Canadian immigrants by Juliana L’Heureux on Juliana’s Substack.
Population.us by Nancy on My Ancestors and Me.
Bastille Day: Celebrating French Culture and Heritage With Genealogical Records and Archives by Kari Meyer on Legacy Tree Genealogists.
Polish Schoolchildren’s Signatures – Now Searchable! by Lara Diamond on Lara’s Jewnealogy.
How to Use AI to Analyze Family Photos by DiAnn Iamarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree.
Breathing New Life Into an Old Photo by Jenny on Jenny’s Scrapbook of Family History Stories.
Solving Mysteries with Google Lens by D. M. DeBacker on Gathering Leaves.
The Gravedigger’s Path: Beneath the Surface by Will Moneymaker on Ancestral Findings.
FamilySearch Computer Generated Family Trees are not Sources by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star.
Walking in Ancestral Footsteps by Shauna Hicks on Genealogical Society of Queensland.
Shadow Box Honoring Dad’s WWII Service by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
Who Do I think I am by Paul Chiddicks on Paul Chiddicks.
Where Social Media Started and Where It’s Going in Genealogy by Jon Marie Pearson on The Simple Living Genealogist.
Jacques Bourgeois: Complex Acadian, Founder of Beaubassin – 52 Ancestors #450 and How to Use Ancestry’s New Match Clusters and What They Mean by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
The new clustering tool at Ancestry by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper’s Blog.
What are DNA Matches By Cluster on Ancestry by Mercedes Brons on Who Are You Made Of?
Articles
Ontario grant helps Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogical Group go digital, Pembroke, Observer, Ontario.
‘The postcard craze’ of historic Michigan: More than 60K postcards digitized at U-M Clements Library, (University of) Michigan News, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Family Roots genealogy testing program provides ancestral heritage tracing by Nadia Carolina Hernandez, Evanston RoundTable, Illinois.
Researchers note ‘substantial recovery’ of lost Donegal Census records from 1800s, Donegal Daily, Ireland.
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.
