Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
Ancestry and the NRS – when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly and Major relaunch of PRONI website later this year, and other news from the archive by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES.
New Jersey Vital Records: What? How? Where? in 2025 by Michelle Chubenko on Jerseyrootsgenealogy.
50 Top U.S. Centers, Museums, and Libraries for Genealogy Research and Reclaim the Records – Available Genealogy Collections by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt.
After Several Months of Development, Elephind 2.0 Has Just Launched by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
Sloopers: the Bicentennial Celebrations of Norway’s First US Immigrants! by Sean Daly on Geneanet Blog.
FamilyTreeNow.com Offers Up More Free Public Information by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name.
Ancestral Tourism 3: How to read a cemetery by Janice Heppenstall on English Ancestors.
Photos to Sketches for Ancestor Coloring Book by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
Facing the Fear of Change: A Genealogy Community at a Crossroads by Jon Marie Pearson on Genealogy & the Social Sphere.
AI Skills for Your Family History Journey by Carole McCulloch on Coach Caroline Online.
The Forgotten Faces of the Somme by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree.
23andMe Update by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper’s Blog.
Articles
‘How in the world could this happen to children?’ Former residential school in Ontario to open as museum by Aura Carreño Rosas, CBC News, Hamilton, Ontario.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Find a Grave by Daniel Loftus on Family Tree Magazine, Dublin, New Hampshire.
Exclusive: Blackstone weighs options for Ancestry.com, including sale or IPO, sources say by Echo Wang, Reuters, New York, New York.
Could your ancestry DNA results unlock citizenship by Laura Ancell, BBC, England.
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.

