Monday, December 10, 2012

New/Updated Websites, Blogs, and Newspaper Articles - 10 December 2012

I have come across the following websites, blogs, and newspaper articles this past week that were of interest to me, and I thought you might be interested in them, too –

Titanic in Nova Scotia http://titanic.gov.ns.ca This is a site run by The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Their website is fantastic, with artifacts, a history of the ship, and the Halifax Connection with the sinking of the Titanic..

War and Memory in a Personal Context – Guest Blog by Jesse MacLeod http://www.canadianmilitaryhistory.ca/war-and-memory-in-a-personal-context-guest-blog-by-jesse-macleod This is a moving piece written by guest blogger Jesse MacLeod in which he visits the battlefields of the First World War in northern France. He traces his great-grandfather steps to his untimely death in the First World War.

OGS Blog www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog Don’t forget to keep up on the latest news about Ontario Genealogy Society with their daily OGS Blog.

Ontario birth, marriage and death records guide http://globalgenealogy.com/news/articles/00007i.htm A guide has been prepared by Rick Roberts in which he “begins with recent records and works back in time.”

A good review of the records, which are available to the researcher.

FOULDS: Calling up intimate history with the click of a mouse www.kamloopsthisweek.com/opinion/181921661.html Learn about John Chmelyk (originally from Poland), and how the decisions he made, would influence the life of his grandson – Christopher Foulds – the editor of Kamloops This Week.

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