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Tag Archives: diaries
This week’s crème de la crème — March 5, 2022
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsFinding Your Eastern European Ancestral Village by Michelle Chubenko on Legacy Tree Genealogists. Ancestry Adds European Phonebooks by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. Dutch Genealogy News for February 2022 on Dutch Genealogy by … Continue reading
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Tagged diaries, DNA, DNA Painter, Eastern Europe, family history writing, Netherlands, WATO, writing
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This week’s crème de la crème — June 27, 2020
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Archives at Selkirk College, B.C. by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy. How to Find Protestant Abjurations in Quebec by Jacques Gagné on Genealogy Ensemble. Update from LAC Reference Services … Continue reading
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Tagged British Columbia, census, diaries, DNA, England, Ireland, MyHeritage, preservation, Quebec, social media, theses
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This week’s crème de la crème — June 22, 2019
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Top 12 tips on getting the most out of Newspapers.com (for Canada, for free) by Linda Yip on Past Presence. Diaries Found at Provincial Archives by Candice McDonald on Finding Your … Continue reading
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Tagged diaries, Ireland, Irish, New Brunswick, newspapers, Newspapers.com, Ontario, postcards
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National Archives releases second set of WWI unit war diaries
Today The National Archives announced it has published the second batch of 3,987 digitized WWI unit war diaries from France and Flanders. They said that the “collection now covers all of the cavalry divisions and the first 33 infantry divisions deployed … Continue reading
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Tagged diaries, WWI
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