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Tag Archives: Maine
This week’s crème de la crème — May 18, 2024
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsVanishing River Street by Jane E. MacNamara on Where the story takes me. Search Multiple Maine Historical Newspaper Collections at Once and How to Find Where Newspapers are Available with Chronicling … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged Canada, DNA, family history writing, Maine, mtDNA, newspapers, OnLand, Ontario, writing
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This week’s crème de la crème — January 29, 2022
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsFamilySearch + LAC = Canada, 1851 Census Success by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Behind the Archives’ Door: The Newspaper Project on Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives. Learning about Acadian “blind spots” … Continue reading
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Tagged 1851 Canada Census, Acadian, Ancestry, British Newspaper Archive, Carribean, DNA, family history writing, FamilySearch, FamilyTreeDNA, Franco-Americans, Holocaust, legacy, Library and Archives Canada, Maine, newspapers, Ontario, PERSI, probate, Scotland, theses, thesis, writing
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This week’s crème de la crème — December 18, 2021
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsSurprise Canadian Records from MyHeritage and More newspapers and BMD abstracts available at Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. The Library of Congress Digital Collections and 13,000 United … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950 US census, 23andMe, Acadian, books, Canada, cemeteries, Christmas, DNA, France, Ireland, Jamaica, Library of Congress, Maine, MyHeritage, newspapers, paleography, United States, yearbooks
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This week’s crème de la crème — November 18, 2017
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Gems from the Notarial Records in Quebec: the Inventory after Death by Diane Tourville on GenSpotters. Founding Families of Québec : A History Lesson on the Origins of Our Ancestors on … Continue reading
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Tagged cemeteries, civil war, DNA, Irish, Maine, notarial records, notaries, notary records, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto
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This week’s crème de la crème — September 23, 2017
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Alberta Ancestors: The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Ontario Update by Sherri on CanadaGenWeb’s Cemetery Project. Marriage Dispensations in the Catholic Church by Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta, archives, blogs, cemeteries, census, DNA, family history writing, Franco-Americans, Irish, Maine, methodology, Ontario, Quebec, writing
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This week’s crème de la crème — August 26, 2017
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs How I Found Norman Parker Smith in Online Records – Pt I and BMS2000 and BAnQ-Finding Norman Parker Smith Online – Pt II by Anna Matthews on Tripping Over My Roots. Kingston Trip – … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged blogs, BMS2000, citations, digital library, DNA, FamilySearch, Genealogy Gophers, Google Books, HathiTrust, Internet Archive, Maine, MyHeritage, Ontario, Quebec notarial records
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This week’s crème de la crème — August 12, 2017
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Launching new FreeCEN website on GeneaPress. Emigrant Aid Societies by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD. Backstory: A history of McGill Student Publications by Annelise Dowd on The Dark Room. … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, bylaws, causes of death, cemeteries, death, DNA, famine, FreeCen, Irish, Irish Famine, Maine, McGill University, McGill University Library and Archives, methodology
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This week’s crème de la crème — June 10, 2017
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Finding Your Ancestors in Ontario by Penny Allen on UK to Canada Genealogy. D-I-V-O-R-C-E Part 2 – After 1968 in the Atlantic Provinces by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, blogs, divorce, Irish, Loyalists, Maine, methodology, Montreal, MyHeritage, Newfoundland, newspapers, Ontario, prison, Scottish, timelines, United States
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This week’s crème de la crème — March 11, 2017
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs New Brunswick Online Historical Newspapers Summary, Nova Scotia Online Historical Newspapers Summary, and Prince Edward Island Online Historical Newspapers Summary by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt. One Last Loyalist … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, Flickr, Franco-Americans, Google, Internet Archive, Iowa, Jewish, Loyalists, Maine, New Brunswick, newspapers, Nova Scotia, photos, Prince Edward Island, United Empire Loyalists, Vermont
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Your top 15 online genealogy collections in 2016
Looking back over the past twelve months at what captured genealogists’ attention, it seems this was not the best year for exciting new Canadian collections. With the exception of Library and Archives Canada’s ongoing digitization of Canadian Expeditionary Forces service … Continue reading
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Tagged aboriginal, Alberta, Algonquin, Ancestry, British, Canadian Expeditionary Force, CEF, directories, Eastern Townships Archives Portal, Eastern Townships Resource Centre, Find A Grave, First Nations, Geneanet, homesteading, Irish, Italian, Library and Archives Canada, looking back, Maine, McGill University, newspapers, notarial records, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Quebec notarial records, theses, Upper Canada, Vatican, Vatican library, War of 1812, WWI
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