Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
We have to organise! Fight the cuts to Canadian Heritage and Memory Institutions by Dr. Gillian Leitch on Gilliandr’s Blog.
LAC Departmental Plan 2026-2027 by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections.
The Certificate of Loyalist Descent by Brian McConnell on UE Loyalist History.
How many Catholics can pop up? by John Grenham on Irish Roots.
Negative Search Results vs. Negative Evidence: When Nothing Found Means Something by Diana Elder on Family Locket.
Book Review: Searching for Sisters by Sunny Jane Morton by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.
Jacques LePrince (c1646-1691/3): Acadian Mystery Man – 52 Ancestors #470 by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained.
Ancestoring: Understanding Records, Family, and Ourselves by Darcie Hind Posz, FASG: Book Review and MyHeritage Introduced ScribeAI at RootsTech: It’s Fabulous! by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
Testing MyHeritage’s Scribe AI by Wayne Shepheard on Discover Genealogy.
Have You Tried Google’s NotebookLM Yet? and Google NotebookLM Tutorial by Dr. Margaret M. McMahon on A Week of Genealogy.
Five Things I Learned at RootsTech 2026 by Steve Little on Vibe Genealogy.
AI Assessing a Canadian WWI Soldier File and Is AI a Friend or Foe for Genealogy by Patricia Greber on My Genealogy Life.
Exploring Ancestry’s Photo Insights Feature – Henry A. Carringer’s Land Patent – Updated by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings.
23andMe Clustering by Jonny Perl on DNA Painter Blog.
7 Myths About DNA Testing: What’s True, What’s Not, and Why It Matters by Daniella on MyHeritage Blog.
Database Sizes—March 2026 by Dr. Leah Larkin on The DNA Geek.
Articles
The rise of the ‘backup passport’ by Ellie Cobb, BBC, London, England.
Research uncovers forgotten infant burial sites in Sligo by Shane Ó Curraighín, RTÉ, Dublin, Ireland.
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