Friday 22 June 2018

High Fives - June 22, 2018




High Fives are articles or blog posts I have read during the week that I find interesting, and perhaps are pertinent to my research. Sometimes there are only a couple and sometimes there are quite a few.








Unclaimed Persons Celebrates 10th Anniversary
~by Lisa Louise Cooke at Genealogy Gems
Wonderful project to be a part of. I have done the genealogy and created memorials for many of my "fictive kin", but this is a whole other level! 


6 Tips to Building a Family History Book
~by Lynn Palermo at The Armchair Genealogist
Good advice. I started too big, to get as much info to give to my parents. Now I find I am doing them over in smaller chunks.


Occupations by Another Name
~by Alice at Family Tree
Check the link to the list of occupations at the end of the article. There’s a few I’ve never heard of!


How far back can you research your ancestry in Quebec?
~by Institut Drouin at Généalogie Québec
You are lucky if your ancestors lived in early Quebec


Memories of Delhi – request for information
~by Valmay at FIBIS – Families in British India Society
Calling for ancestor life stories of Delhi in the early 1900s






For more weekend reading, see what posts these bloggers liked...
Saturday – Gail Dever, Crème de la Crème
Sunday – Randy Seaver, Best of the Genea-Blogs



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