This week’s crème de la crème — May 1, 2026

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.

Crème de la crème of genealogy blogs

Blog posts
Punjabi Patrika : Local Newspapers as Windows into the Past by Minghui Zhou on Digitizers’ Blog.

New Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) website launched by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES.

1926 already on Ancestry by Claire Bradley on CBGenealogy.

How the design of our new online catalogue puts users first by Simon Wilkes on The National Archives Blog.

Rare Database Offers Free Information on Foreigners Who Lived in the Russian Empire by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family.

FamilySearch Full Text Search: Finding Hidden Records with AI by Melissa on Legacy Tree Genealogists.

Your Next Breakthrough Might Be Hiding on Linkpendium by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 for Genealogy: Photo Enhancement by Diane Henriks on Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family.

Articles
Library and Archives Canada making ‘best efforts’ to meet access-to-information targets while cutting jobs by Ben Andrews, Ottawa Citizen, Ontario.

Mainers scramble for Canadian citizenship under new law expanding eligibility through ancestry by Ari Snider, Bangor Daily News, Maine.

Your Guide to Finding Loyalist Ancestors in the American Revolution by Michael L. Strauss and Sunny Jane Morton, Family Tree Magazine, Dublin, New Hampshire.

What Census 1926 reveals about lives of children 100 years ago by Ella Sloane, Irish Times, Dublin, 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.

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