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Tag Archives: Manitoba
This week’s crème de la crème — November 7, 2020
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsHow to search newspaper articles (and more) at BAnQ by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD. Manitoba Ancestors: Issues of “The Commercial” on Canadiana by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian … Continue reading
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Tagged BAnQ, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Canadiana, DNA, indexing, Ireland, Manitoba, New France, newspapers, Newspapers.com, photos, slavery, WWII, yearbooks
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This week’s crème de la crème — June 20, 2020
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Manitoba Ancestors: Parish Records on Canadiana by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Radical German Loyalism in the American Revolution by Ruth Savidge on Atlantic Loyalist Connections. Using Directories to … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, Britain, Canadiana, directories, First Nations, Ireland, Loyalists, Manitoba, organizing, slavery, social history, United Kingdom
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This week’s crème de la crème — March 28, 2020
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs A Challenge: 1861 Census of Canada – Agricultural Schedule by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Maximize Your Searching with the New France Archives by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta, Canada census, census, DNA, DNA Painter, genealogy for kids, Internet Archive, Manitoba, Netherlands, Ontario, Saskatchewan, WWII, YouTube
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This week’s crème de la crème — January 18, 2020
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsManitoba Ancestors: Browsing Early Manitoba through Census records by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Kingston Lower Burial Ground Project by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. Your ancestor was … Continue reading
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Tagged BillionGraves, cemeteries, DNA, family history writing, genealogical proof standard, GoogleTranslate, Kingston, Manitoba, methodology, Ontario, Pinterest, Russia, Ukraine, writing
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This week’s crème de la crème — August 24, 2019
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsA Black Hole No Longer – Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Basics of Researching Your Loyalist Ancestors by Devon Noel Lee on Family History Fanatics. … Continue reading
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Tagged 23andMe, DNA, Federation of Genealogical Societies, Japanese Canadians, Loyalists, Manitoba, masons, methodology, New Brunswick, preservation, Quebec, Scotland, societies, United Empire Loyalists, Who Do You Think You Are?, Winnipeg
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This week’s crème de la crème — August 10, 2019
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsGenealogy gold, part 1: the who, what, why, where and how of local history books in the Canadian prairies by Linda Yip on Past Presence. An Anglophone’s Tips for Searching Ancestry’s The … Continue reading
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Tagged 23andMe, Alberta, Ancestry, DNA, Drouin collection, Dutch, Franco-Americans, GEDmatch, Lazurus tool, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Scotland
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This week’s crème de la crème — February 2, 2019
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs The National Archives of France by Jacques Gagné on Genealogy Ensemble. Sources for researching people in the 1900s by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy. University of Manitoba Digital Collections by John D. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dutch, family history writing, FamilyTreeDNA, France, Franco-Americans, interview, Manitoba, Netherlands, newspapers, timelines, writing
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This week’s crème de la crème — January 5, 2019
Some of the bijoux I discovered this first week of the year. Blogs Nova Scotia Online Historical Newspapers Summary and Manitoba Online Historical Newspapers Summary by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt. Our Year in Review on CanGenWeb’s Cemetery Projects. … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, cemeteries, DNA, Dutch, Evernote, Jewish, Library and Archives Canada, Manitoba, Netherlands, newspapers, Nova Scotia, United States
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This week’s crème de la crème — July 14, 2018
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Manitoba Online Historical Photos Research, Alberta Online Historical Photos Research, Saskatchewan Online Historical Photos Research, New Brunswick Online Historical Photos Research, and Nova Scotia Online Historical Photos Research by Kenneth R. Marks on The … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta, DNA, Familypedia, Irish, Jewish, Manitoba, manuscript collections, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, photos, Saskatchewan, Ukrainian, vertical files, WWI, Yukon
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This week’s crème de la crème — June 30, 2018
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Finding Your Ancestors in Manitoba by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy. Probate Records Part 5 – Manitoba and Saskatchewan by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. New: Arnprior … Continue reading
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Tagged DNA, GEDmatch, Loyalists, Manitoba, MyHeritageDNA, newspapers, Ontario, Saskatchewan, United Empire Loyalists
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