Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blog posts
Finding LAC’s Upper Canada Land Petitions by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots.
United Farm Women of Alberta and The U.F.A. Newspaper: 1922-1933 by Tara Currie on United Farmers Historical Society.
The Eastern Townships in Context by Patrick Lacroix on Query the Past.
Branches of the UELAC by Brian McConnell, UE, on UE Loyalist History.
250 Years of Record Survival: What’s Been Digitized, What Hasn’t, and Where to Look by Shannon Bennett on T2 Family History.
Two Free Sources For Locating Digitized Newspapers Online by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name.
Sharing Family History on Social Media: A Thoughtful Guide by Jon Marie Pearson on Genealogy & The Social Sphere.
A family anecdote revealed… by Teresa Basińska Eckford on Writing my past.
Meet Leo: The Handwritten Text Recognition Platform Built for Researchers by Nicole Elder Dyer on Family Locket.
The Genealogical Research Assistant (GRA): Free for Every AI Platform by Steve Little on Vibe Genealogy.
Using Steve Little’s AI Genealogy Research Assistant V8.5.1c To Develop a Research Plan by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings.
Articles
Seven types of documents Americans are using to prove their Canadian citizenship by descent by Derek Shank and Caroline Minks, CIC News, Toronto, Ontario.
‘Such a mix of people’: Ireland of 1926 was not monocultural, release of census shows by Rory Carroll, The Guardian, London, England.
How to Find Records Faster with FamilySearch’s Catalogs by Sunny Jane Morton, Family Tree Magazine, Dublin, New Hampshire.
Translating Old Genealogy Records: 20 Top Tools by Rick Crume, Family Tree Magazine, Dublin, New Hampshire.
Saving local news also means saving the archives by Kristen Hare, Poynter, St. Petersburg, Florida.
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