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This week’s crème de la crème — July 22, 2023
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsLandedEstates.ie database expands into ROI’s three Ulster counties by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News. Lost in London – Mapping London Addresses by Judith Batchelor on Genealogy Jude. The 1851 Religious Census … Continue reading
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Tagged England, FamilySearch, Google Books, Ireland, maps, Northern Ireland, Old Bailey, Scotland, Wales
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This week’s crème de la crème — January 21, 2023
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog posts16,200 Free Online Canada Collections Available in 6 Genealogy Record Categories and Storied – The Next Chapter in Family History by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt. How to find … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, Canada, GEDmatch, Google Books, Library of Congress, MyHeritage, newspapers, photos, Scotland
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This week’s crème de la crème — April 30, 2022
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsChronic delays at Library and Archives Canada by John D. Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. Irish Registry of Deeds Index Project: more updates and guides by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News. Uncovering … Continue reading
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Tagged AncestryDNA, audiocassette, cemeteries, DNA, DNA Painter, England, Google Books, Ireland, Italy, LAC, legacy, libraries, Library and Archives Canada, National Archives US, negatives, Netherlands, newspapers, photos, Scotland, United States, Wales, WATO
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This week’s crème de la crème — January 22, 2022
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsPassenger lists of the Holland-America Line have been digitised by Joan Bos on Joan’s Ancestral World. Invaluable scanned records from Russian and Ukrainian archives posted online by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian … Continue reading
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Tagged crowdsourcing, Google Books, Ireland, methodology, Netherlands, newspapers, passenger lists, PERSI, Russia, Ukraine, YouTube
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This week’s crème de la crème — December 24, 2021
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsPreparing for the 1950 U.S. Federal Census Release by Diana Elder on Family Locket. 1950 US Census: Look Out Below! and Three Brick Walls Smashed by Remarkable WikiTreers by Marian B. Wood … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950 US census, DNA, Google Books, India, Ireland, MyHeritage, MyHeritageDNA, newspapers, WikiTree, WWI
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This week’s crème de la crème — April 3, 2021
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsThe Irish in New France by Sharon Callaghan on Ancestry Blog. Quebec Ancestors: The Montreal Fire Club at the McGill University Archives by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Quebec birth, … Continue reading
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Tagged census, disease, DNA, family history writing, Google Books, Ireland, MyHeritageDNA, National Library of Scotland, Netherlands, newspapers, Quebec, Ukraine, United States, writing, WWI
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This week’s crème de la crème — November 28, 2020
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsSaskatchewan Ancestors: The Greystone Yearbooks Online at the University of Saskatchewan Archives by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. How To Start Researching Your African American Female Ancestors by Lisa Lisson … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, directories, Google, Google Books, Google Scholar, land records, methodology, MyHeritage, Saskatchewan, societies, United States, yearbooks
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This week’s crème de la crème — October 31, 2020
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsOntario Ancestors: School and Teacher Directories on Internet Archive by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Early Canadian Military Reports 1864-1925 by Patricia Greber on My Genealogy Life. Untold Moments of WWII … Continue reading
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Tagged 23andMe, Ancestry, archives, books, Canada, directories, FindAGrave, floppy disks, Google Books, Halifax Municipal Archives, military, MyHeritageDNA, negatives, newspapers, Ontario, photos, United States, WWII
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This week’s crème de la crème — October 26, 2019
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsHarvesting on Peel’s Prairie Provinces by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Dobson’s ‘Irish Emigrants to North America’ is next Ancestry World Archives Project by Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta, facial recognition, Google Books, Ireland, Peel's Prairie Provinces
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This week’s crème de la crème — February 16, 2019
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Love and Marriage on Canadiana by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Quebec Guardianship Records can help resolve brick walls by Jacques Gagné on Genealogy Ensemble. Hidden in Plain Sight: A … Continue reading
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Tagged 23andMe, AncestryDNA, Canadiana, DNA, FamilySearch, Findmypast, GEDmatch, Genesis, Google Books, guardianships, newspapers, PERSI, Quebec, Scotland, Scottish, tutelles
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