So Legacy Family Tree has just come out with a free-to-all version 10! I wanted to mention this especially to #genchat because one of the new features is a FAN report. I haven’t downloaded it yet, but will let you know when I do! #genealogy ~ Christine @genchat
#Ahnenforschung#Genealogy Frage: Hat jemand von Euch schon mal nach U-Boot Besatzungen geforscht? Und zwar nach niemandem im Offiziersrang sondern eben den Jungs im Bugraum, einfache Matrosen. Wie ist da die Erfassungslage? ich habe https://dubm.de/ angeschrieben aber keine Antwort erhalten bislang und im https://historisches-marinearchiv.de ist die Person noch nicht erfasst, hat jemand weitere Ideen oder Quellen? Mir ist nur Name und Geburtstag bekannt, nicht die Bootsnummer(n)
#genchat#genealogy@genealogy Ah surely you jest? Messes? We are talking people & families, right? All a mess, always a mess. Just get one sorted and something else pops up. I say "Embrace the Mess" and do what speaks to you now. Currently working on a 4000 year old conundrum. It's funny too that people forget how messy humans are. We have a multiplicity of motivations. We move. We come back home. My great joy this week. A new YDNA match that appears to have moved less than 30 miles in 4000 years. https://wheatonwood.com/2024/05/22/the-journey-of-one-4000-year-old-celtic-y-snp-rfgc22501-ten-years-of-discovery/
Good morning/evening/afternoon, #genchat ! Today our Open Mic theme is Untangling from a #Genealogy Mess! What kinds of messes do you have? Big/small? Physical/electronic? How do you untangle them? Let's chat! @genchat
Newspapers has a free weekend. I still have more years to research my #Pleau line. Last time, I pulled over 400 articles (still extracting all that data).
Genealogical and genetic ancestors aren’t the same thing. A DNA match − or a lack of one − may not tell you what you imagine it does about your family tree.
Well last night Jan (as usual) gave us a ton of helpful Info :
Modern property tax records can tell you when a house might have been built or remodeled, and sometimes even give you a footprint of the building and its rooms.
If you find records that someone owned property over a certain value, if you're thinking about when they came of age, or if they have income over a certain value. It depends on whether you are "boots on the ground" or looking online.
I highly recommend Judy G. Russell's webinars on the law and how it applies to our research, especially "How Old Did He Have to Be?" Knowing the law tells you when someone is likely to be on a tax list.
Knowing the law is so helpful for all the records we use for #genealogy. I think it was Michael Hait who said in a webinar "Clerks don't keep records for fun."
Most records we use were kept because some law mandated them, or when people were keeping track of money.
Knowing each locality's laws are so important! You can search Judy G. Russell's blog, The Legal Genealogist, to get ideas for finding the laws for individual states, territories, or federal laws.
While I think of it ... Planning applications are public documents ... not strictly on topic ... but nowadays recent ones are searchable online in some areas.
@RobertJackson58585858@genchat You're making me think: if an ancestor owned a business, perhaps the taxes that business paid may be more public as well. #genchat
Good day, #genchat ! I've got my coffee ready & we'll be talking about Tax Records for #genealogy ! And although I've finished updating my computer last night, it is driving kind of slow, so please bear with my pace. @genchat
One of my late father's youngest cousins and her husband were in town for an event, so my wife and I met them for coffee and the handover of the contents of the fabled "Aunt Enid's Trunk" that was in her possession.
Happened upon a new-to-me source of records for assisting with one's #genealogy endeavors: The (US) National Archive's Access to Archival Databases (AAD).
OMG Should I scan my antique postcard collection?! My favorites are the ones with writing. I've bought tons of them on eBay over the years, and they're most pictures of Indianapolis.
Finding my roots is not only about building a family tree, but also about collecting photos and documents that capture my family's history.
Today I found a postcard sent by my great-grandfather's brother (bottom left) from the front in 1915. He died a year later on the Eastern Front during the Brusilov offensive at the age of 20.
Does anyone know what a hulyer or hulyor is within the context of a 17th-century Lancashire village?
I'm looking at a list of people who took the Protestation in Rivington in 1642. One of them could be my ancestor. His name is John Darbyshier. The other's name is Richard Hulyor. The occupation of both is listed as hulyer or hulyor.
According to Wikipedia, the Protestation was an oath of allegiance taken by English men aged over 18 "to live and die for the true Protestant religion, the liberties and rights of subjects and the privilege of Parliaments." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestation_Returns_of_1641%E2%80%931642
