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Tag Archives: yearbooks
This week’s crème de la crème — December 24, 2022
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs postsFree Canada High School and College Yearbooks Online by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt. New: Global Name Translation™ for DNA Matches by Erica on MyHeritage Blog. Donate Your Family … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, copyright, MyHeritage, societies, United States, WWI, yearbooks
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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 — September 4, 2021
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsFree British Columbia High School and College Yearbooks Online, Free Quebec High School and College Yearbooks Online, Free New Brunswick High School and College Yearbooks Online, Free Prince Edward Island High School … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, AncestryDNA, British Columbia, DNA, FamilyTreeDNA, Ireland, legacy, Library and Archives Canada, MyHeritageDNA, Netherlands, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ukraine, US civil war, yearbooks
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This week’s crème de la crème — August 28, 2021
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsFinding on the Ground: Wrap Up by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Free Nova Scotia High School and College Yearbooks Online, Free Manitoba High School and College Yearbooks Online, Free Saskatchewan … Continue reading
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Tagged 23andMe, African Americans, Alberta, Ancestry, directories, England, Ireland, land records, legacy, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, ontario land records, Russia, Saskatchewan, Scotland, yearbooks
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More free Ontario yearbooks online on The Ancestor Hunt
Like the Energizer bunny that keeps going and going, Kenneth R. Marks continues to update his many lists of free online high school and university yearbooks on The Ancestor Hunt website. This weekend, he added 55 more schools to the … Continue reading
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More schools added to free online collection of Ontario high school and university yearbooks
Kenneth R. Marks tweeted yesterday that he has made a “big update” of free links to online Ontario high school and university yearbooks on his website, The Ancestor Hunt. He has added 49 Ontario schools for a new total of … Continue reading
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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 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 — November 7, 2020
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsHow to search newspaper articles (and more) at BAnQ by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD. Manitoba Ancestors: Issues of “The Commercial” on Canadiana by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian … Continue reading
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This week’s crème de la crème — October 3, 2020
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsNewfoundland Ancestors: Directories online at Memorial University by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Canadians as POWs in the Second World War on Findmypast by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. … Continue reading
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Tagged AncestryDNA, cemeteries, cemetery photography, city directories, directories, Elephind, family histories, FamilySearch, Loyalists, methodology, Netherlands, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, newspapers, Prince Edward Island, UEL, United Empire Loyalists, WWII, yearbooks
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