@ someone in the comments who has made your Mastodon experience better, a little explanation as to why would be awesome too! You are welcome to do more than one.
ANNOUNCEMENT: effective January 14, 2023 at 9amET, there will be #genchat on Mastodon! It will take place the Saturday after #genchat on Twitter, which will now be every 2nd & 4th Friday. Both platforms will cover the same topics. Be sure to follow the account @genchat and use the hashtag as well as tagging @genchat , which increases each toot's visibility across servers. You can find the schedule at https://www.genchatgenealogy.com/schedule.html. Please boost & spread the word!
Well it's the end of the #genchat hour (though it can continue of course!). Be sure to join us on Sept 23 for our Open Mic, which has the theme of Occupations! See you then! @genchat
A couple of #genchat announcements:
1- North America just turned its clocks back, so #genchat will be at 2pm UTC on Nov 11.
2- If you want me to ask Melissa any questions about archives, archiving & preservation, please let me know before this Friday, so I can ask her during the Twitter session & bring the answers back here the next day.
Just catching up with #Genchat ... I am grateful for #DNA testing for #FamilyHistory purposes🧬because it enabled me to find my paternal heritage and it continues to support me in investigating brick walls on both sides of my family tree 🌳 by complementing what I can find from other sources.
Last night, Michael mentioned something interesting: being grateful about not meeting his paternal relatives. Through his research, he's found...let's say quite a few black sheep. I told him it was like that saying about being grateful for those who show you who you don't want to be. #genchat@genchat
Whether you write just a little blurb, a full book, a blog post or whatever, we’re talking about #FamilyHistory writing at our open mic on #genchat on Saturday, Jan 27 at 2pm GMT, 9amET, etc. @genchat
Well, we're coming to the official end of the #genchat hour, but of course it can go on & on! Thanks for sticking with me, despite the distraction of the #InternetArchive . Next chat will be on Feb 24 - an Open Mic about Surnames! @genchat
#GenChat Interesting to see that many people on both M and the X-T site read "tax records" and equated that with "personal income taxes" without thinking of all the other records of taxes that may be out there. Use the FamilySearch Wiki, the RootsWeb Wiki, and other guides to find records you may have missed!
Draft trees = floating trees on Ancestry ... very useful indeed.
Sometimes I'm in two minds whether the exploratory nature means I should anonymise by eg leaving off dates of death in my public tree.
Alternatively there are always valid records attached so in that sense they are true trees but not necessarily ever going to be attached properly to mine.
The least productive have been separate private trees.
The most productive are floating (with"Floating" in the suffix field of the name) so are essentially public ... but if I omit the date of death/make "living" it makes them invisible.
The latter quite often eventually flash up a hint as to a parent who is in my tree from earlier working "downhill"
One detangling strategy I've been using the past few years is: when I come across an issue on my tree, I add it to my "To Do" list in my #genealogy program (I use Legacy Family Tree). That way I can research it properly & won't forget about it. #genchat@genchat