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Tag Archives: ChatGPT
This week’s crème de la crème — May 16, 2026
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsFamilySearch vs. Ancestry by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. Did Canada Just Make You a Citizen? How a New Law Turned My Genealogy Research Into a Citizenship Application by Colleen Kennedy on … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged AI, Ancestry, Canada, ChatGPT, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, PERSI, ScotlandsPeople
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This week’s crème de la crème — February 7, 2026
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsAncestry Updates Ontario Births and Deaths, Royal Newfoundland Regiment Service Files and Get More Hits from Full Text Search by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. Bill C-3 (2025) and Searching for … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Ancestry, ChatGPT, DNA, FamilyTreeDNA, Newfoundland, newspapers, Ontario, United States, WWI
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This week’s crème de la crème — December 27, 2025
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsTownlands and Irish Land Divisions – How to Use the Townland Atlas of Ulster presentation by Andrew Kane by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES. New FamilySearch Feature: “Simple Search” in Full-Text … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, ChatGPT, DNA, FamilySearch, FamilySearch Wiki, full-text, Ireland, JSTOR
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This week’s crème de la crème — November 22, 2025
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsTop tips for researching Ukrainian and Russian immigrants on Canada’s free national archives portal by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family. DIY Genealogy: Two Resources for Scottish Ancestor Research … Continue reading
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Tagged ChatGPT, children, Library and Archives Canada, photos, Scotland
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This week’s crème de la crème — August 16, 2025
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsGuillaume Trahan (c1601-c1684), More Than Meets the Eye – 52 Ancestor #452 by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained. How Vintage Postcards Can Help Researchers Understand a Neighborhood by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches … Continue reading
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Tagged Acadian, ChatGPT, family history writing, photos, postcards, writing
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This week’s crème de la crème — June 21, 2025
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsRevisit – Library and Archives Canada RG 8, C Series How-To by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Federal Indian Day Schools: Education under the Indian Act—what did this mean for … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, ChatGPT, DNA, FamilySearch, Franco-American, full-text, Indigenous, legacy, Library and Archives Canada, Metis, Newspapers.com, Russia, social history, societies
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This week’s crème de la crème — April 26, 2025
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsThursday Tidbits: MyHeritage Adds Canada, Home Children Immigration Index, 1869-1932 by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. The Klondike Gold Rush: Stories Behind the Search for Gold by Tianyi Fei on University … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, British Home Children, ChatGPT, DNA, FamilySearch, FamilyTreeDNA, Indiana, Klondike Gold Rush, MyHeritage, New York, Scotland, United States, Yukon
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This week’s crème de la crème — March 1, 2025
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsNew database helps users to find scanned Ukrainian archive records in a few clicks by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family. Finally! A Great Tool to Transcribe Handwritten Documents … Continue reading
This week’s crème de la crème — June 1, 2024
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsExploring the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives with the surprisingly detailed story of Thomas Thomas (1766-1828), governor of HBC by Linda Yip on Past Presence. Some of me oul’ darlin’ databases are … Continue reading
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Tagged ChatGPT, Findmypast, Hudson's Bay Company, Ireland, legacy, newspapers
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This week’s crème de la crème — November 11, 2023
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsWe still give birth, get married and die under the Poor Law by John Grenham on Irish Roots. 42 Newspapers from the North Carolina Collection by Geoff Schilling on DigitalNC Blog. … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, DNA, Ireland, Leeds Method, MyHeritage, Netherlands, North Carolina, preservation, societies, Sweden
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