Friday 29 June 2018

High Fives - June 29, 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.







Tahitian soldiers in World War I
~by Anne Morddel at The French Genealogy Blog
Click on the Battalion link (in red) to find out more about the WWI unit. 


Nursing Sisters who died in service during the First World War Part 1 
~by Laura Brown at Library and Archives Canada Blog
Diaries, photos and service files of these nursing sisters


Nursing Sisters who died in service during the First World War, Part 2
~by Alex Comber at Library and Archives Canada Blog
Nursing Sisters Roll of Honour


Marine History Archive digitizing collection of people in Newfoundland, 1500-1850
~by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte
Keep an eye out for updates as work progresses.





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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