This week’s crème de la crème — January 31, 2015

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.

Blogs
Let It Go? Save or Toss Those Old Family Escrow Papers? by Denise Levenick on The Family Curator.

L’hôtel de ville de Montréal by Mario Robert on Archives de Montréal.

Dalhousie Libraries’ University Archives Online Collections by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections.

Required Genealogical Reading by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star.

How not to run screaming from the microfilm room by John Grenham on Irish Roots.

Faut-il faire SA généalogie ou DES généalogies ? by Nicole Suzuki on La chaîne des générations.

The 4 Family Stories You Must Save for Your Children by Karen Hanna on FamilySearch Blog.

AncestryDNA test now on sale in the UK and Ireland by Debbie Cruwys on Cruwys news.

How to Watch Genealogy and Other Television Programs from Other Countries by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.

Articles
Cartes de visite provide glimpses of mid-Victorian Montreal by John Kalbfleisch, Montreal Gazette.

Heritage Hotel Viger jewel in a $250-million plan to revive eastern Old Montreal by Eva Friede, Montreal Gazette.

SANDERSON SAGA: Industrialist John Sanderson’s fortune continues to help others nearly a century after his death by Heather Ibbotson, Brantford (Ontario) Expositor.

On Vimy Ridge, mighty oaks will grow again — thanks to a Canadian soldier by Murray Whyte, Toronto Star.

The Loyalist Refugee Experience in Canada by Alexander Cain, Journal of the American Revolution.

Support grows for ‘lost’ graveyard memorial in Kitchener by Greg Mercer, Waterloo (Ontario) Region Record.

Damage from cancelled census as bad as feared, researchers say by Tavia Grant, Globe and Mail, Toronto.

How a Grimsby student preserves town history: There’s an app for that by Danni Gresko, CBC News, Hamilton, Ontario.

How to Hire a Professional Genealogist You Can Trust by Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root, Washington, DC.