Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
CKRN Canadiana Helps the Family Historian and New Releases: Tracing Ancestors in Surrey and Staffordshire by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
Mapping the Way through the New Catalog by Carissa Pastuch on Library of Congress Blogs.
WWII Morning Reports in PDF Files by Dr. Margaret M. McMahon on A Week of Genealogy.
New Resource to Find Holocaust Survivors–Often With Family Information by Lara Diamond on Lara’s Jewnealogy.
The Most Common French Surnames and What They Reveal About Your Heritage by Dr. Elisabeth Zetland on MyHeritage Blog.
Censuses in France by Sean Daly on Geneanet Blog.
Friday Find by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy.
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun — Five Reference Books For Beginning Genealogy Researchers by Teresa Basińska Eckford on Writing my past.
What’s in a One Name?: Navigating a Forest of Family Trees for Carews of Ontario by Emily Bayma Santos on OurDigitalWorld.
Why Aren’t Family Histories Being Preserved? A Genealogist’s Perspective by Devon Noel Lee on Family History Fanatics.
Writing a Family History Novel: Keeping the Watch: Caretaking the Hidden Value of a Family Heirloom by Diana Elder on Family Locket.
You Don’t Need to Be a Researcher to Preserve Your Family History by Lisa Lisson on Lisa Lisson.
Why websites and webinars don’t work for learning genealogy by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers.
How to analyse each genetic group in a Y-DNA Surname Project – a rough guide for Admins by Maurice Gleeson on DNA and Family Tree Research.
Articles
From 12 to about a million: A record of the first Filipinos in Canada by Theresa Redula, CityNews, Toronto, Ontario.
Dogs being used to search former residential school sites in northern Ontario, CBC News, Sudbury, Ontario.
Veterans to be honoured with new banners in Waterloo by Karis Mapp, CTV News, Waterloo, Ontario.
No burial records found for 80 children who died in institution that predated Tuam mother and baby home by Alison O’Reilly, Irish Examiner, Blackpool, Cork, Ireland.
U.S. singer Ciara among the first descendants of enslaved people granted citizenship by Benin by Mark Banchereau, Associated Press, Dakar, Senegal.
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.
