Tag Archives: Ancestry

This week’s crème de la crème — March 15, 2025

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsTools for German Origins by Hallie Kirchner on Vita Brevis. My Sources and Citations Toolbox… by Teresa Basińska Eckford on Writing my past. New Features and Apps Announced at RootsTech 2025 by Nicole … Continue reading →

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Ontario death registrations for 1951 and 1952 added to Ancestry

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Gail Dever

Ancestry has updated its collection, currently called Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1950, to include death registrations for the years 1951 and 1952. Subscribers can now explore almost 88,000 newly added Ontario death registrations. These records are from the Archives … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — January 25, 2025

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsLegislative Acts and Ontario Genealogy by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. MyHeritage Names & Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com for Canada and the UK by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. … Continue reading →

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Ancestry updates Quebec’s Drouin Collection of baptisms, marriage and burial records

Posted on January 19, 2025 by Gail Dever

On Thursday, Ancestry updated their index of the Drouin Collection of baptisms, marriages and burials in Quebec, from 1621 to 1941. With more than 41 million records, this is an essential collection to research if your relatives lived in Quebec. … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — January 18, 2025

Posted on January 18, 2025 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog posts1921 Censuses of England, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man on Ancestry by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. How to Browse All Digitized Titles in Chronicling America by Joanna Colclough … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — January 11, 2025

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsCensus of the Prairie Provinces, 1926 now on Ancestry…sort of by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Making Acadianness in Northern Maine, Part 1 by Patrick Lacroix on The Acadiensis Blog. Full-Text … Continue reading →

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1921 Census for England and Wales coming to Ancestry

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Gail Dever

If you have English and/or Welsh ancestry and a subscription to Ancestry’s Worldwide package, there’s very good news for you. On January 7, Ancestry will make available to subscribers the 1921 Census for England and Wales. The records will be … Continue reading →

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Two more years of Ontario marriage records on Ancestry

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Gail Dever

Ancestry has updated its Ontario Marriages collection by adding records for 1941 and 1942. Perhaps we’ll soon see the 1918 Ontario birth registrations, along with the 1951 and 1952 death registrations. This September, the Archives of Ontario confirmed with Ken … Continue reading →

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Ancestry takes Olympians Torvill and Dean on a DNA journey

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Gail Dever

Many who watched the 1984 winter Olympics in Sarajevo will remember Torvill and Dean’s gold-medal performance to Ravel’s Boléro that became famous around the world. Now, in Ancestry’s latest video, Torvill & Dean Have Sport in the Blood, Jayne Torvill … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — September 21, 2024

Posted on September 21, 2024 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsEfforts to get Ukrainian archive records online advances nationwide by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family. Easier Searching of Merchant Seaman Records at TNA and ProbateTV by John Reid … Continue reading →

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