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- This week’s Ontario Ancestors virtual presentation topics include… Library and Archives Canada, DNA, French Canadian research, Scottish research, MyHeritage, and mind mapping
- Qualicum Beach Family History Society’s webinar on accessing images in FamilySearch
- This week’s crème de la crème — October 12, 2024
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- Quebec Federation of Genealogy Societies awards literary prize to André LaRose, author of book about a family in Beauharnois
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Tag Archives: genealogy for kids
This week’s crème de la crème — February 27, 2016
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs How to date Griffith’s Valuation precisely by John Grenham on John Grenham – Irish Roots. New research tool – Townland Explorer – launched by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News. A … Continue reading
This week’s crème de la crème — December 19, 2015
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs 20,000 pages being added to Almonte Gazette online and What’s to be achieved with Documentary Heritage Communities Program Funding? by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. What do your children … Continue reading
How to involve kids in family history
Legacy Family Tree offers a free webinar, Family History for Kids, presented by Devin Ashby, a community advocate for FamilySearch. It takes place Wednesday, December 3, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. Are you trying to figure out how to get … Continue reading
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Tagged genealogy for kids, Legacy Family Tree
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This week’s crème de la crème — November 15, 2014
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Remembrance Day — Honour Roll by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD. Généalogie et archives Saint-Laurent has Moved to the Cornwall (Ontario) Public Library by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestry.com, blogs, Canadian Museum of Immigration, French probate records, Généalogie et archives de Saint-Laurent, genealogy for kids, hockey, Holocaust, honour roll, long-form census, Norfolk Branch, Pier 21, prison visitors' book, recipe, Saskatchewan, society, trench cake, University of Toronto, Vancouver Public Library, Voyage of the damned, WWI, WWII
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This week’s crème de la crème — November 1, 2014
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs The Archives of Ontario… How do I find what’s in it for me? by Jane MacNamara on Where the story takes me… Is a Writing Group Right for You? by Lynn … Continue reading
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Tagged Archives of Ontario, Australia National Archives, blogs, cemetery, copyright, costumes, crimanals, crime, crowd-sourcing, digitizing records, family history writing, genealogical proof standard, genealogy for kids, Guy Drummond, Halloween, internment camps, Ireland, John Grenham, murder, Ontario, organizing, societies, Ukrainians, vampire, War of 1812, writing, WWI
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This week’s crème de la crème — October 25, 2014
Some of the bijoux I discovered this past week. Blogs Ancestry in Canada and Wilson’s Canadian Military Guides Online by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. World War One in Winnipeg — Conscription by Jim Blanchard on ActiveHistory. Creative Ways … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestry, blogs, cemeteries, conscription, Detroit News, Detroit News archives, East Deering Cemetery, Facebook, Finding Your Roots, genealogy for kids, Grand Trunk Cemetery, Hamilton Cemetery, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Liverpool crew lists, Maine, military guides, Paul Holland Knowlton House, Portland, Titantic, Upper Fort Garry, vintage postcards, Winnipeg, WWI
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This week’s crème de la crème — October 18, 2014
Some of the bijoux I discovered this post-Thanksgiving week. Blogs Historicist: Straitlaced Toronto by David Wencer on Torontoist. Giving Thanks by Brenda Dougall Merriman on Brenda Dougall Merriman. My Top 10 Genealogy Mysteries by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on The Olive … Continue reading
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Tagged 22e Régiment, 22nd Regiment, blogs, Board for Certification of Genealogists, brick walls, civil war, CNN Roots, corsets, evidence, family history writing, fashion, genealogical proof standard, genealogy for kids, GPS, Internet Archive, Irish, memoir, New York, New York poorhouses, Newfoundland, Paul Holland Knowlton House, Régiment 22e, Van Doos, women's fashion, writing memoirs, WWI
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Crème de la crème — October 11, 2014
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Blacked Out: Infusing Colour to Remembrance Day Celebrations by Natasha Henry on Teaching African Canadian History. Genealogy Should Be Free – Say What??? and Warning! Opinion re Ken Burns Remarks on … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, Canada GenWeb, cemeteries, colourised photos, Finding Your Roots, genealogical proof standard, genealogy for kids, Hudson's Bay building, Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives, Montreal, Morrin Centre, NARA, The French Canadian Cultural Alliance of the Great Lakes, United Empire Loyalists, websites, WWI
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This week’s crème de la crème — September 13, 2014
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Basic Nova Scotia Genealogy Research for New England Yankees by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on Worldwide Genealogy. Making slavery in New France by Brett Rushforth on Common-Place. Franco-American diversity: identified by different … Continue reading
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Tagged Acadian, Canadian-Irish, conference, Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie, Franco American, Franklin expedition, genealogy for kids, influenza, Irish, letters, Maine, New France, Nova Scotia, Ontario Genealogical Society, Orangemen, Pointe Claire Historical Preservation Society, Pointe-Claire, recipes, slavery, societies, Toronto, War of 1812, WWI
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This week’s crème de la crème — September 6, 2014
The bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Acadians Deported from Beaubassin Acadia in 1755 by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino on Acadian and French-Canadian Ancestral Homes. Rockstar Genealogists 2014 by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. In-depth Review of a Record … Continue reading
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Tagged Acadian, Blue Puttees, Corinne Jeffery, Free BMD, French Canadian, genealogy for kids, genealogy society, historical society, Labour Day, maps, Newfoundland, Niagara Settlers, Régiment 22e, research technique, rockstar genealogists, Russian, Toronto, Ukrainians, Understanding Ursula, Van Doos, wills, writing, WWI
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