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This week’s crème de la crème — December 12, 2020
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsKirk session records to be added to ScotlandsPeople in 2021 by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES. Secrets of ScotlandsPeople by Alison Spring on The Frugal Genealogist. Confederate Records Available Online and by … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestry, Christmas cards, DNA, FamilySearch, gifts, Jewish, maps, military, newspapers, Scotland, ScotlandsPeople, US civil war
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This week’s crème de la crème — December 5, 2020
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsHighland Archives catalogue goes online by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES. Grenham’s Third Law of Irish Genealogy by John Grenham on Irish Roots. Dutch Genealogy News for November 2020 by Yvette Hoitink … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestry, cemeteries, census, DNA, family history writing, France, genealogy gifts, gifts, Ireland, MyHeritageDNA, Netherlands, Scotland, writing, yearbooks
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This week’s crème de la crème — November 26, 2016
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Who is That?!: Help with Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Given Names by Leah Grandy on Atlantic Loyalist Connections (University of New Brunswick). Canadian Public Libraries Genealogy Databases and How should DNA … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, DNA, Family Tree Maker, genealogy gifts, gifts, library, Loyalists, Manitoba, naturalization, photos, UEL, Ukrainians, United Empire Loyalists, WWII
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This week’s crème de la crème — November 12, 2016
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs First World War Canadian Veterans Claim Cards and Canadian Veterans Death Cards: First World War by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. Searching the Heir & Devisee Commission for Canadian … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, Australia, blogs, England, genealogy gifts, gifts, London Gazette, Ontario, Upper Canada, WWI, WWII
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This week’s crème de la crème — December 20, 2014
Some of the genealogy bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs NAP Assistants and Volunteers Clear Brush at an Abandoned Graveyard Near the Bayou Teche by Mark Rees on The New Acadia Project. Announcing the Genealogy Do-Over by Thomas MacEntee on … Continue reading
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Tagged Acadians, blogs, Christmas cards, family history gifts, genealogy etiquette, genealogy gifts, gifts, Great Expulsion, online courses, Peterborough cemetery, Revolutionary War, Scotland, Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research, WDYTYA
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This week’s crème de la crème — December 6, 2014
Here are some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Online Resources for Your Loyalist Research Project by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Walking in the Footsteps of My Mother — Inside Taftville’s Ponemah Mill by Bernice L. … Continue reading
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Tagged Acadian, BAnQ, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, blogs, Cavan, citations, code of conduct, conservation, genealogical proof standard, gifts, GPS, Irish workhouse, legacy, preservation, South Peace Regional Archives, United Empire Loyalists
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This week’s crème de la crème — November 29, 2014
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Researching an Ancestor in the Carignan Regiment by Anne Morddel on The French Genealogy Blog. Canadian Expeditionary Force Online Research Resources by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Canadian Veteran Death … Continue reading
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Tagged almshouse, blogs, book for kids, British Newspaper Archive, Canadian Expeditionary Force, CEF resources, cook book, dissertations, female ancestors, Franco-Americans, gifts, Hôpital Jeffrey Hale, Jeffrey Hale Hospital, Lewiston, Maine, Newfoundland Regiment, Oklahoma Historical Society, organization, Régiment Carignan-Salières, Semaine nationale de la généalogie, WWI, WWI veteran cards
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