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By Jakealoo on April 26, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Improvements to Viewing Canadian War Diaries at LAC

In January Library and Archives Canada made improvements to their Archives Search and Image Search tools with an eye to enhancing the user experience. These will be of immediate benefit to those […]

By Jakealoo on April 22, 2016 • ( 3 Comments )

The British Colonist adds 30 years of digitized newspapers

The British Colonist Online Edition is a wonderful and free resource for researchers and family historians. I wrote about the website in December 2013, shortly after it was expanded to […]

By Jakealoo on April 21, 2016 • ( 1 Comment )

Doing Their Bit: Sarah Teesdale

In the second instalment of my “Doing Their Bit” series I’m highlighting the work of Sarah Teesdale, a volunteer researcher at the Alford Manor House Museum in Lincolnshire. Sarah’s passion for history […]

By Jakealoo on April 18, 2016 • ( 31 Comments )

Nominal Rolls of the Canadian Expeditionary Force

Note: this is a significant update to my Nominal Rolls article from January 2014. Below you’ll find links to nearly 400 Nominal Rolls currently online at Library and Archives Canada! A Nominal […]

By Jakealoo on April 15, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Update: CEF Service File Estimate for April 2016

This is the second update to My Estimate of when your CEF Service File will be Digitized article posted last December. I’m revisiting the project every other month to see if […]

By Jakealoo on April 12, 2016 • ( 3 Comments )

Reunited: 1915 Sgt. Diplock postcard goes home (again)

In December I published an article on a 1915 Christmas card written by Sgt. Thomas Diplock to his future wife Gwen while he was a Prisoner of War in Giessen, Germany. Thomas was […]

By Jakealoo on April 9, 2016 • ( 6 Comments )

Vimy Day: Remembering Private Thomas Shearman

On April 12, 1917, a 21-year old Rhodes scholar candidate from British Columbia lay injured in a German trench on Vimy Ridge with gunshot wounds to his side, arm and leg. He […]

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