#FamilyHistory
Am trying to isolate a birth mother of a child adopted away just pre ww2.
I do not have the benefit of the maternal dna matches. Only the paternal. And I know who he is already.
Needle in a haystack.
I am grateful that most of my ancestors are from #Denmark where access to records is free. Being able to learn about one's #FamilyHistory should be a right for everyone regardless of income or savings. #genchat
For my Monday light entertainment am looking at an #AncestryDNA match with a very small tree ... only his mother and her parents ... not many cM between us and we have only two matches.
But the matches are my closest paternal CA match and a 2C1R CA match on mom's mother's side.
My saviour seems to be Birmingham being the city of 1000 trades - grandfather a tyre maker per mom's bap post 1901 census. Led to older sibling bap pre 1901 census. Led to parents on 1901 census 😊
Does anyone, please, have professional experience of #FindAGrave ?
Someone set up a Findagrave record for Hirsch Hans Hirschfeld with correct date of birth but all else unknown. A quick search on Wiki shows his career as a distinguished German Jewish Haematologist who was arrested by the Nazis then transported to Theresienstadt and murdered in 1944.
Something feels really wrong here.
I've seen zero detail F'grave records set up from #FreeBMD before.
Please could other users report the toot that Patty has mentioned? Racist hate speech should not be tolerated, far less when it contains the #FamilyHistory hashtag. 🙄😢
7 year old William Hazlewood Wait was buried at Whilton, 6 Sept 1904.
Son of Sarah Pollard & William Hazlewood Wait, little William was born at the Wharf in 1897, baptised at Whilton 11 Apr 1897.
On 1 Sep 1904 William was playing with a toy boat in the canal by the lock. Sadly he fell in & was drowned in the canal. A boatman named only as Mr Norris pulled him out but it was too late.
No, don't worry FindMyPast, not like that missing bit is anything important!🙄 😡
(and I'm whining at all of you because nobody here understands and just said well she's dead already, what difference does it make?)
I just finished a project for a US client who wanted to get in touch with living relatives in Denmark. It turned out that one of the living relatives is my best friend from school!
1978 - Me, my brothers & cousins at #Bidong Island, #Malaysia#RefugeesCamp before we were transferred to #Galang refugees camp in Indonesia, in early 1979. One cousin, Bill, was born at Indonesian camp & was in my Aunt's belly at time this photo was taken.
This one is likely to disappear. I sincerely hope it does!
The solid box for Humphry Hatton 1806-1809 had been dotted earlier tonight because he wasn't in my tree ... I hadn't previously found his baptism when working downhill from father Humphrey. It had no yob, only dod 1809.
How the blithering heck he had a daughter Phebe back in 1782 beats me. And granddaughter Mary in 1801 🤪
Thrulines is crazy brilliant. Truly it is. That's why I adore it.
@genealogy@geneadons
What's the largest number of people with identical names you've ever come across in one household?
I've just found a census record in which Margaret Rankin is living with her husband, her sister-in-law Margaret Rankin and several children, including another Margaret Rankin. It must've been a confusing household!
Family photo from the early 1920s, Redondela (Pontevedra, Galicia). We have a 30-year-old in the family who looks exactly like his great-grandfather in this photo. It's just like in García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. People die and come back again. GM's grandmother was from Galicia and he says her story telling influenced him. #Galicia#Familyhistory#Vigo
One of my most interesting brick walls is: who were the parents of Jane Street? I know her father's name (John) and occupation (miner), but not where and when he was born and died, and nothing at all about her mother. I wrote up an analysis of all the evidence and all the hypotheses I could find, and I have a good guess about who her mother was - but not nearly enough evidence to prove it!