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This week’s crème de la crème — July 6, 2024
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsCanada Day reflections: on accrediting, Western Canadian genealogy, and diverse ideas for celebrating by Linda Yip on Past Presence. Ancestry Adds Aberdeenshire Burials by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. Scottish Indexes … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Ancestry, AncestryDNA, Canada, DNA, England, Ireland, legacy, online learning, photos, Scotland, Scottish Indexes
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This week’s crème de la crème — June 22, 2024
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsLAC Improves Access to Certain Census Schedules and Rippling Effects of the Great Famine by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. Unmarked graves at Glasgow Necropolis indexed and Saturday and Sunday at … Continue reading
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Tagged AncestryDNA, DNA, England, FamilyTreeDNA, filles du roi, Great Famine, Ireland, Library and Archives Canada, mtDNA, MyHeritage, online learning, Ontario Ancestors, Quebec, Scotland
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This week’s crème de la crème — July 15, 2023
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsPuzzling through 1931 Census sub-districts – Part 2 on Library and Archives Canada Blog. When my house became a museum – celebrating the new Chinese Canadian Museum by Linda Yip on Past … Continue reading
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Tagged 1931 Canada Census, Ancestry, census, Chinese Canadians, DNA, DNA Painter, Evernote, FindAGrave, funeral cards, genealogy conferences, Northern Ireland, online learning, social media
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This week’s crème de la crème — December 10, 2022
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsCork Sources on Academia.edu by Jim Ryan on Ancestor Network. Dutch Genealogy News for November 2022 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy. Borrowing Genealogy Books from the Internet Archive by Gena Philibert-Ortega … Continue reading
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Tagged FamilySearch, Internet Archive, Ireland, Netherlands, online learning, YouTube
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Learn about researching Irish ancestors, including those who migrated to Quebec, on Clare Roots Society’s YouTube channel
While going down the research rabbit hole yesterday, I discovered the Clare Roots Society’s YouTube channel with more than two dozen videos. The videos include presentations on Researching Workhouse Ancestors during the Famine by Eamon Healy, Famine Migration to Quebec, … Continue reading
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New PRONI videos on YouTube — Irish online resources and promiscuous Presbyterians
Two of the latest videos on the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland’s (PRONI) YouTube channel are Getting Started Workshop — Using Online Resources on how to use PRONI’s website and other free online resources and Sexuality & Social Control … Continue reading
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Tagged Griffith's Valuation, online learning, PRONI, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, YouTube
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This week’s crème de la crème — January 9, 2021
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsMillions of Free Scanned Church Records from Moscow Posted Online by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family. Dutch Genealogy News for December 2020 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy. TNA … Continue reading
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Tagged census, copyright, DNA, England, FamilyTreeDNA, Ireland, military, MyHeritage, Netherlands, New Brunswick, online learning, photos, Russia, Scotland, ScotlandsPeople, The National Archives, United States, Wales, WWI
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Irish ancestors? Short attention span? PRONI’s short how-to YouTube videos fit the bill
If your ancestors came from Ireland and your attention span is limited to about six minutes of learning — which is not unusual during the pandemic — the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has produced a series of … Continue reading
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This week’s crème de la crème — August 3, 2019
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsExplore Open Collections: BC Historical Documents by Risa Hatanaka on UBC Library Bloggers. More than 100 years of BC’s provincial governmental papers now accessible online by Michelle Blackwell on UBC Library Bloggers. … Continue reading
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Tagged British Columbia, DNA, family history writing, FamilySearch, FAN club, genealogy conferences, military, online learning, photos, UBC, writing, WWI, WWII
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This week’s crème de la crème — March 30, 2019
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs 52 Ancestors: Week 12 – 12 Sites to Further your Canadian Research by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. University of Alberta Digitization; still waiting on LAC and Guy Berthiaume announces … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, Canada, DNA, Dr. Guy Berthiaume, Facebook, Guy Berthiaume, Ireland, Irish, online learning, photos, Russia, theses, University of Alberta
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