Flominator<p>- was looking forward to work, that's new!<br>- bathing and cuddling with <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Gelbi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gelbi</span></a><br>- managed to do a <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/grandma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grandma</span></a> recording in the morning and some research this evening <br><a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/3GoodThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>3GoodThings</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/ThreeGoodThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThreeGoodThings</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
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Patricia Loofbourrow<p>When I first started <a href="https://mas.to/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a> I found so many free resources! Public trees, free websites. It was like a dream come true. </p><p>I wanted to give back, help others who were also looking - so I kept my tree public.</p><p>Now, after many years of doing this, I’m telling everyone: keep your tree private!</p><p>Why?</p><p>Here are four reasons: <a href="https://ourhiddendepths.substack.com/p/four-reasons-your-tree-should-be?r=6ps5j" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ourhiddendepths.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/four-reasons-your-tree-should-be?r=6ps5j</span></a></p>
Greg 🇳🇿 :tinoflag: 🇨🇵<p>Not too keen on the <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/LDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LDS</span></a> running the <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/FamilySearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FamilySearch</span></a> site, but I must admit that they're really on to it. Collecting family trees. Trying to get as much info on to <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Gramps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gramps</span></a>, but have to go back to 1620...so far. A mission that I'll work away at, little by little, day by day. All saved locally. <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
Greg 🇳🇿 :tinoflag: 🇨🇵<p>This <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a> malarkey is bloody addictive. <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/familytree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>familytree</span></a></p>
Flominator<p>I originally thought, he was from <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Rippoldsau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rippoldsau</span></a> and she told me about the nice people from there, she had met on a bus trip to Norway some years ago. They also visited her afterwards and called for her birthday. But Josef <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Steurenthaler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steurenthaler</span></a> from "Ripertsau" was in fact from Ruprechtsau aka Robertsau in <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Strasbourg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strasbourg</span></a>/#Straßburg, where I found him in newly indexed <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/FamilySearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FamilySearch</span></a> records some weeks ago when revisiting the topic. A presentation at <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Genealogica2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogica2025</span></a> had mentioned the area. <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
Flominator<p>In today's <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/grandma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grandma</span></a> recording, I told her about Josef <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Steurenthaler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steurenthaler</span></a> from the <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Gummersbach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gummersbach</span></a> area and how I can't connect him to her and her father's Steurenthaler family. What a coincidence, that I found his origin some weeks ago and created his profile <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-184" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthale</span><span class="invisible">r-184</span></a> during this weekend's <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/April2025ConnectAThon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>April2025ConnectAThon</span></a>. I also created profiles for 26 descendants and their spouses, which had received from another researcher back then in 2019.<br><a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/WikiTree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WikiTree</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a></p>
HistorySheWrote<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 14 April 1824 Helen Mitchell was born to Peter Mitchell and Ann Taylor in Fife, Scotland. There was a start of a christening record in Kinghorn, as if the minister thought the christening would be in that church. The details are not filled in. Instead, Helen appears in a later list in Abbotshall with her siblings, including my great-great-grandmother. Helen died just weeks before the 1841 census, as revealed in a cryptic notation in the parish records: Petter Mitchels Daughter in the South grave of John Taylers property 6 foot dep.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
Sherri Hartlen-Neely<p>My great-grandmother, Catherine Elizabeth (Dowling) Hartlen, and I share same the birthday. I just wish I was as beautiful as she is in this photo.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a></p>
Dávid<p>Back in the 14th century, one of my ancestors saved a king from certain death by rescuing him from the clutches of a group of 'Saracen warriors', as the grant of arms says.</p><p>Listening to my grandmother's sister tell stories about the family history was fun and amazing. But finding the actual genealogical papers in my grandfather's study decades later: that was incredible.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/randomfacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>randomfacts</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/aboutme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aboutme</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
HistorySheWrote<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 13 April 1781 The widowed Östen Sunnesson, 77, died in Hannäs parish, Kalmar County, Sweden. His wife, Margareta Larsdotter, had died 6 years earlier, after 46 years of marriage. They were both born about 1704 and married at about age 24. Their children alternated nicely between girls and boys. My 5th-great-grandmother, Stina Östensdotter, was the third child of seven. Little else is known of their lives, as the church clerks did not record his occupation. Only in the tax records might it be possible to learn anything more.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
Heather Wilkinson Rojo<p>Libraries and museums are being decimated by federal cuts. What are we willing to lose? Have you contacted your members of Congress and Senators? Do you know what the <a href="https://toot.community/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a> resources are in your state libraries? Do you know why they are so important to save? Here is a list of some of the resources in the New Hampshire State Library. You should see what is in your own state library, too. <a href="https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-are-genealogy-resources-inside-new.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com</span><span class="invisible">/2025/04/what-are-genealogy-resources-inside-new.html</span></a></p>
DON Family History Society<p>Our next Help Desk Day will be on Tuesday 15th April 10.00am - 2.00pm at Doncaster Archives. You will be able to access Find My Past & Ancestry websites for free plus the 1921 census. Volunteers from the society will be on hand to help and advise you. Anyone is welcome and it is free so do please come along and bring a friend. <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/familyhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>familyhistory</span></a></p>
Jürgen Hubert<p>Quick question: Is there a specific English-language term for "the cousin of one's father"?</p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p>
royterdw<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@le_friwi_56" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>le_friwi_56</span></a></span> Have you tried using your local library to access Ancestry com? Libraries are granted access and it's pretty good.</p><p>I've found some things by searching archive.org and Google books. There's also a number of folks on Mastodon who are knowledgeable about <a href="https://rcsocial.net/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a>. Sometimes they mention free resources which might help.</p><p>I'm basically trying to see how far I can get without having to pay for an account or get a DNA test.</p>
HistorySheWrote<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 12 April 1910 Charles E Ramsey married Deora Maud Maddox in Enid, Oklahoma. They had a large age difference and the marriage was troubled, especially with Charley, a grain buyer, being overly fond of alcohol. They had two sons, but the youngest died at about two years old. Deora sought a divorce. She married a builder, George Larue Atkinson, and moved to Corpus Christi, Texas. The older son, Clifford, joined his stepfather after training as an architect. Deora was the youngest sister of my great-grandmother.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
MFennVT<p><a href="https://vermont.masto.host/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/114319904306018169" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vis.social/@infobeautiful/1143</span><span class="invisible">19904306018169</span></a></p>
Marian Burk Wood<p><a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> On April 27, the Virtual Genealogical Association is hosting FREE short talks on <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/FamilyHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FamilyHistory</span></a> topics. See schedule, register for Zoom here: <a href="https://virtualgenealogy.org/vgas-birthday-party/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">virtualgenealogy.org/vgas-birt</span><span class="invisible">hday-party/</span></a></p>
David<p>Aww heck, I've missed <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/genchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genchat</span></a>. Three minutes left. Frantically trying to catch up with the good chat. I might add something after the hour 😋 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lor.sh/@genchat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>genchat</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@genealogy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>genealogy</span></a></span> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
HistorySheWrote<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lor.sh/@genchat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>genchat@lor.sh</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/genchat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>genchat@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> We know the ordinary thing like home address and often occupation. I have seen work address, names of spouse and children. One of my rural farmers appeared in a directory that included when they came to the county and where they were born. One bonus is being able to identify possible family through similar surnames. Of course that's when the surname is not too common.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
#genchat 🦣<p>ICEBREAKER <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/genchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genchat</span></a> How extensively do you use directories in your <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a> research? <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/genchat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>genchat@a.gup.pe</span></a></span></p>
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