#familyhistory — Public Fediverse posts

See you in Fort Wayne next week! Permanent will be at #NGS2026GEN May 27-30. Stop by our booth and let's talk digital preservation, family history, and building a digital archive that lasts for future generations. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

Franz Wilhelm, Prinz von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg ist heute vor 25 Jahren am 19. Mai 2001 gestorben.
https://geneee.org/franz+wilhelm/von+sayn+wittgenstein+berleburg

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Ruth Tittel ist am 19. Mai 1926 geboren und wäre heute 100 Jahre alt geworden.
https://geneee.org/ruth/tittel

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

James Howard Weiss ist am 19. Mai 1926 geboren und wäre heute 100 Jahre alt geworden.
https://geneee.org/james+howard/weiss

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Clarence Allen Parker ist am 19. Mai 1926 geboren und wäre heute 100 Jahre alt geworden.
https://geneee.org/clarence+allen/parker

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Wilhelm Frei ist heute vor 150 Jahren am 19. Mai 1876 geboren.
https://geneee.org/wilhelm/frei/2

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Elisa Karolina Sigrist ist heute vor 150 Jahren am 19. Mai 1876 geboren.
https://geneee.org/elisa+karolina/sigrist

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Hieronymus Breisacher ist heute vor 200 Jahren am 19. Mai 1826 geboren.
https://geneee.org/hieronymus/breisacher/1

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Maria Magdalena Beck ist heute vor 225 Jahren am 19. Mai 1801 geboren.
https://geneee.org/maria+magdalena/beck/6

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Johannes Küchlin ist heute vor 250 Jahren am 19. Mai 1776 geboren.
https://geneee.org/johannes/kuchlin

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Johannes Felder ist heute vor 300 Jahren am 19. Mai 1726 geboren.
https://geneee.org/johannes/felder/2

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Salome Sulzberger ist heute vor 300 Jahren am 19. Mai 1726 gestorben.
https://geneee.org/salome/sulzberger

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Andreas Berblinger ist heute vor 300 Jahren am 19. Mai 1726 geboren.
https://geneee.org/andreas/berblinger

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

LISTEN NOW: "The Salesman" with Ulysses Swanson, who explains how he researches transgender people through history. #genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory

https://familyhistoriespodcast.com/2026/05/19/s11ep03-the-salesman-with-ulysses-swanson/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

LISTEN NOW: "The Salesman" with Ulysses Swanson, who explains how he researches transgender people through history. #genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory

https://familyhistoriespodcast.com/2026/05/19/s11ep03-the-salesman-with-ulysses-swanson/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

❓#QuestionOfTheWeek Do you have any adoptions in your family? 🚼

Adoption can add beautiful complexity to a family tree — and raise fascinating research questions. Join the conversation on WikiTree's G2G genealogy forum!

👉 https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2034567
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wwpQn24fb4c

#WikiTree #Genealogy #CollaborativeGenealogy #FamilyHistory #Adoption #OpenSource

❓#QuestionOfTheWeek Do you have any adoptions in your family? 🚼

Adoption can add beautiful complexity to a family tree — and raise fascinating research questions. Join the conversation on WikiTree's G2G genealogy forum!

👉 https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2034567
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wwpQn24fb4c

#WikiTree #Genealogy #CollaborativeGenealogy #FamilyHistory #Adoption #OpenSource

❓#QuestionOfTheWeek Do you have any adoptions in your family? 🚼

Adoption can add beautiful complexity to a family tree — and raise fascinating research questions. Join the conversation on WikiTree's G2G genealogy forum!

👉 https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2034567
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wwpQn24fb4c

#WikiTree #Genealogy #CollaborativeGenealogy #FamilyHistory #Adoption #OpenSource

❓#QuestionOfTheWeek Do you have any adoptions in your family? 🚼

Adoption can add beautiful complexity to a family tree — and raise fascinating research questions. Join the conversation on WikiTree's G2G genealogy forum!

👉 https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2034567
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wwpQn24fb4c

#WikiTree #Genealogy #CollaborativeGenealogy #FamilyHistory #Adoption #OpenSource

❓#QuestionOfTheWeek Do you have any adoptions in your family? 🚼

Adoption can add beautiful complexity to a family tree — and raise fascinating research questions. Join the conversation on WikiTree's G2G genealogy forum!

👉 https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2034567
▶️ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wwpQn24fb4c

#WikiTree #Genealogy #CollaborativeGenealogy #FamilyHistory #Adoption #OpenSource

Because of my recent “peasant-mania” („Chłopomania” in Polish) obsession, I discovered something called Urzecze some time ago. I came across it while digging into the genealogy of my ancestors. On both sides of my family - my mother’s and my father’s - it turned out that our ancestors were Urzeczanie, and the region where my family has lived “forever” is actually a historical microregion called Urzecze.

Urzecze is a forgotten Warsaw/sub-Warsaw microregion stretching from the area of Mokotów all the way to Góra Kalwaria. Its culture was revived by Dr. Maurycy Stanaszek (Polish anthropologist, historian, and researcher).

When I learned about this region, I contacted Dr. Stanaszek and shared my family tree with him, which confirmed my earlier suspicions. I also gave him the oldest family photographs I managed to find at home.

Suddenly, I realized that some old family house was actually a typical example of Urzecze architecture, or that my grandfather making a living in his youth by weaving wicker baskets and fishing in the Vistula River was also a very typical Urzecze occupation. Some expressions I remembered older people using in my childhood turned out to be part of the Urzecze dialect.

These people were deeply connected to the Vistula River - and back then, the Vistula was basically a highway. They made their living through fishing, river transport, and draining wetlands along the riverbanks, something they had done for centuries. And most of them were actually… immigrants.

They arrived here by sailing down the Vistula at the end of the 17th century from areas that are now Latvia, Estonia, Finland, northern Germany, Western Pomerania, Pomerania, and the Netherlands. They knew how to drain marshlands, so the Polish nobility hired them on contracts. They lived under Olęder law and were free people.

One beautiful thing about Urzecze was how open it was - you only had to settle there to become one of them ❤️

And somehow, all of this was forgotten. Why? It feels as if the generation born after World War II completely cut itself off from this culture.

I honestly feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole 😂 but at the same time, it’s such an amazing adventure. Last weekend, I went to the Urzecze Festival to learn more about the culture. It was a pretty surreal experience, because some of the traditions presented there reminded me of my childhood at my grandparents’ house (they also lived in Urzecze, on the same street as my parents, just a few houses away).

I’m definitely going to keep digging into this history. I still have several Urzecze festivals ahead of me, as well as other events connected more broadly with traditional peasant culture. I’ll definitely come back with more fun facts 😂

I also already have a few ideas for projects connected to all of this. I’m completely obsessed at this point - and I need to make use of it 😂

I’m attaching a photo showing women wearing traditional Urzecze folk costumes.

Like this post please if you found it interesting - I’ll know there’s someone here who wants to read more of this stuff :P

#Urzecze #PolishHistory #Genealogy #FolkCulture #Vistula #Wisla #WarsawHistory #Mazowsze #Poland #HistoriaPolski #KulturaLudowa #Historia #Chlopomania #Roots #FamilyHistory #TravelThroughHistory #Heritage #Ethnography #DiscoverPoland #TraditionalCulture #ForgottenHistory #SlavicCulture #Photography #PolishTraditions #Microhistory #polishculture #peasant #slavic

Because of my recent “peasant-mania” („Chłopomania” in Polish) obsession, I discovered something called Urzecze some time ago. I came across it while digging into the genealogy of my ancestors. On both sides of my family - my mother’s and my father’s - it turned out that our ancestors were Urzeczanie, and the region where my family has lived “forever” is actually a historical microregion called Urzecze.

Urzecze is a forgotten Warsaw/sub-Warsaw microregion stretching from the area of Mokotów all the way to Góra Kalwaria. Its culture was revived by Dr. Maurycy Stanaszek (Polish anthropologist, historian, and researcher).

When I learned about this region, I contacted Dr. Stanaszek and shared my family tree with him, which confirmed my earlier suspicions. I also gave him the oldest family photographs I managed to find at home.

Suddenly, I realized that some old family house was actually a typical example of Urzecze architecture, or that my grandfather making a living in his youth by weaving wicker baskets and fishing in the Vistula River was also a very typical Urzecze occupation. Some expressions I remembered older people using in my childhood turned out to be part of the Urzecze dialect.

These people were deeply connected to the Vistula River - and back then, the Vistula was basically a highway. They made their living through fishing, river transport, and draining wetlands along the riverbanks, something they had done for centuries. And most of them were actually… immigrants.

They arrived here by sailing down the Vistula at the end of the 17th century from areas that are now Latvia, Estonia, Finland, northern Germany, Western Pomerania, Pomerania, and the Netherlands. They knew how to drain marshlands, so the Polish nobility hired them on contracts. They lived under Olęder law and were free people.

One beautiful thing about Urzecze was how open it was - you only had to settle there to become one of them ❤️

And somehow, all of this was forgotten. Why? It feels as if the generation born after World War II completely cut itself off from this culture.

I honestly feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole 😂 but at the same time, it’s such an amazing adventure. Last weekend, I went to the Urzecze Festival to learn more about the culture. It was a pretty surreal experience, because some of the traditions presented there reminded me of my childhood at my grandparents’ house (they also lived in Urzecze, on the same street as my parents, just a few houses away).

I’m definitely going to keep digging into this history. I still have several Urzecze festivals ahead of me, as well as other events connected more broadly with traditional peasant culture. I’ll definitely come back with more fun facts 😂

I also already have a few ideas for projects connected to all of this. I’m completely obsessed at this point - and I need to make use of it 😂

I’m attaching a photo showing women wearing traditional Urzecze folk costumes.

Like this post please if you found it interesting - I’ll know there’s someone here who wants to read more of this stuff :P

#Urzecze #PolishHistory #Genealogy #FolkCulture #Vistula #Wisla #WarsawHistory #Mazowsze #Poland #HistoriaPolski #KulturaLudowa #Historia #Chlopomania #Roots #FamilyHistory #TravelThroughHistory #Heritage #Ethnography #DiscoverPoland #TraditionalCulture #ForgottenHistory #SlavicCulture #Photography #PolishTraditions #Microhistory #polishculture #peasant #slavic

Because of my recent “peasant-mania” („Chłopomania” in Polish) obsession, I discovered something called Urzecze some time ago. I came across it while digging into the genealogy of my ancestors. On both sides of my family - my mother’s and my father’s - it turned out that our ancestors were Urzeczanie, and the region where my family has lived “forever” is actually a historical microregion called Urzecze.

Urzecze is a forgotten Warsaw/sub-Warsaw microregion stretching from the area of Mokotów all the way to Góra Kalwaria. Its culture was revived by Dr. Maurycy Stanaszek (Polish anthropologist, historian, and researcher).

When I learned about this region, I contacted Dr. Stanaszek and shared my family tree with him, which confirmed my earlier suspicions. I also gave him the oldest family photographs I managed to find at home.

Suddenly, I realized that some old family house was actually a typical example of Urzecze architecture, or that my grandfather making a living in his youth by weaving wicker baskets and fishing in the Vistula River was also a very typical Urzecze occupation. Some expressions I remembered older people using in my childhood turned out to be part of the Urzecze dialect.

These people were deeply connected to the Vistula River - and back then, the Vistula was basically a highway. They made their living through fishing, river transport, and draining wetlands along the riverbanks, something they had done for centuries. And most of them were actually… immigrants.

They arrived here by sailing down the Vistula at the end of the 17th century from areas that are now Latvia, Estonia, Finland, northern Germany, Western Pomerania, Pomerania, and the Netherlands. They knew how to drain marshlands, so the Polish nobility hired them on contracts. They lived under Olęder law and were free people.

One beautiful thing about Urzecze was how open it was - you only had to settle there to become one of them ❤️

And somehow, all of this was forgotten. Why? It feels as if the generation born after World War II completely cut itself off from this culture.

I honestly feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole 😂 but at the same time, it’s such an amazing adventure. Last weekend, I went to the Urzecze Festival to learn more about the culture. It was a pretty surreal experience, because some of the traditions presented there reminded me of my childhood at my grandparents’ house (they also lived in Urzecze, on the same street as my parents, just a few houses away).

I’m definitely going to keep digging into this history. I still have several Urzecze festivals ahead of me, as well as other events connected more broadly with traditional peasant culture. I’ll definitely come back with more fun facts 😂

I also already have a few ideas for projects connected to all of this. I’m completely obsessed at this point - and I need to make use of it 😂

I’m attaching a photo showing women wearing traditional Urzecze folk costumes.

Like this post please if you found it interesting - I’ll know there’s someone here who wants to read more of this stuff :P

#Urzecze #PolishHistory #Genealogy #FolkCulture #Vistula #Wisla #WarsawHistory #Mazowsze #Poland #HistoriaPolski #KulturaLudowa #Historia #Chlopomania #Roots #FamilyHistory #TravelThroughHistory #Heritage #Ethnography #DiscoverPoland #TraditionalCulture #ForgottenHistory #SlavicCulture #Photography #PolishTraditions #Microhistory #polishculture #peasant #slavic

Because of my recent “peasant-mania” („Chłopomania” in Polish) obsession, I discovered something called Urzecze some time ago. I came across it while digging into the genealogy of my ancestors. On both sides of my family - my mother’s and my father’s - it turned out that our ancestors were Urzeczanie, and the region where my family has lived “forever” is actually a historical microregion called Urzecze.

Urzecze is a forgotten Warsaw/sub-Warsaw microregion stretching from the area of Mokotów all the way to Góra Kalwaria. Its culture was revived by Dr. Maurycy Stanaszek (Polish anthropologist, historian, and researcher).

When I learned about this region, I contacted Dr. Stanaszek and shared my family tree with him, which confirmed my earlier suspicions. I also gave him the oldest family photographs I managed to find at home.

Suddenly, I realized that some old family house was actually a typical example of Urzecze architecture, or that my grandfather making a living in his youth by weaving wicker baskets and fishing in the Vistula River was also a very typical Urzecze occupation. Some expressions I remembered older people using in my childhood turned out to be part of the Urzecze dialect.

These people were deeply connected to the Vistula River - and back then, the Vistula was basically a highway. They made their living through fishing, river transport, and draining wetlands along the riverbanks, something they had done for centuries. And most of them were actually… immigrants.

They arrived here by sailing down the Vistula at the end of the 17th century from areas that are now Latvia, Estonia, Finland, northern Germany, Western Pomerania, Pomerania, and the Netherlands. They knew how to drain marshlands, so the Polish nobility hired them on contracts. They lived under Olęder law and were free people.

One beautiful thing about Urzecze was how open it was - you only had to settle there to become one of them ❤️

And somehow, all of this was forgotten. Why? It feels as if the generation born after World War II completely cut itself off from this culture.

I honestly feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole 😂 but at the same time, it’s such an amazing adventure. Last weekend, I went to the Urzecze Festival to learn more about the culture. It was a pretty surreal experience, because some of the traditions presented there reminded me of my childhood at my grandparents’ house (they also lived in Urzecze, on the same street as my parents, just a few houses away).

I’m definitely going to keep digging into this history. I still have several Urzecze festivals ahead of me, as well as other events connected more broadly with traditional peasant culture. I’ll definitely come back with more fun facts 😂

I also already have a few ideas for projects connected to all of this. I’m completely obsessed at this point - and I need to make use of it 😂

I’m attaching a photo showing women wearing traditional Urzecze folk costumes.

Like this post please if you found it interesting - I’ll know there’s someone here who wants to read more of this stuff :P

#Urzecze #PolishHistory #Genealogy #FolkCulture #Vistula #Wisla #WarsawHistory #Mazowsze #Poland #HistoriaPolski #KulturaLudowa #Historia #Chlopomania #Roots #FamilyHistory #TravelThroughHistory #Heritage #Ethnography #DiscoverPoland #TraditionalCulture #ForgottenHistory #SlavicCulture #Photography #PolishTraditions #Microhistory #polishculture #peasant #slavic

Because of my recent “peasant-mania” („Chłopomania” in Polish) obsession, I discovered something called Urzecze some time ago. I came across it while digging into the genealogy of my ancestors. On both sides of my family - my mother’s and my father’s - it turned out that our ancestors were Urzeczanie, and the region where my family has lived “forever” is actually a historical microregion called Urzecze.

Urzecze is a forgotten Warsaw/sub-Warsaw microregion stretching from the area of Mokotów all the way to Góra Kalwaria. Its culture was revived by Dr. Maurycy Stanaszek (Polish anthropologist, historian, and researcher).

When I learned about this region, I contacted Dr. Stanaszek and shared my family tree with him, which confirmed my earlier suspicions. I also gave him the oldest family photographs I managed to find at home.

Suddenly, I realized that some old family house was actually a typical example of Urzecze architecture, or that my grandfather making a living in his youth by weaving wicker baskets and fishing in the Vistula River was also a very typical Urzecze occupation. Some expressions I remembered older people using in my childhood turned out to be part of the Urzecze dialect.

These people were deeply connected to the Vistula River - and back then, the Vistula was basically a highway. They made their living through fishing, river transport, and draining wetlands along the riverbanks, something they had done for centuries. And most of them were actually… immigrants.

They arrived here by sailing down the Vistula at the end of the 17th century from areas that are now Latvia, Estonia, Finland, northern Germany, Western Pomerania, Pomerania, and the Netherlands. They knew how to drain marshlands, so the Polish nobility hired them on contracts. They lived under Olęder law and were free people.

One beautiful thing about Urzecze was how open it was - you only had to settle there to become one of them ❤️

And somehow, all of this was forgotten. Why? It feels as if the generation born after World War II completely cut itself off from this culture.

I honestly feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole 😂 but at the same time, it’s such an amazing adventure. Last weekend, I went to the Urzecze Festival to learn more about the culture. It was a pretty surreal experience, because some of the traditions presented there reminded me of my childhood at my grandparents’ house (they also lived in Urzecze, on the same street as my parents, just a few houses away).

I’m definitely going to keep digging into this history. I still have several Urzecze festivals ahead of me, as well as other events connected more broadly with traditional peasant culture. I’ll definitely come back with more fun facts 😂

I also already have a few ideas for projects connected to all of this. I’m completely obsessed at this point - and I need to make use of it 😂

I’m attaching a photo showing women wearing traditional Urzecze folk costumes.

Like this post please if you found it interesting - I’ll know there’s someone here who wants to read more of this stuff :P

#Urzecze #PolishHistory #Genealogy #FolkCulture #Vistula #Wisla #WarsawHistory #Mazowsze #Poland #HistoriaPolski #KulturaLudowa #Historia #Chlopomania #Roots #FamilyHistory #TravelThroughHistory #Heritage #Ethnography #DiscoverPoland #TraditionalCulture #ForgottenHistory #SlavicCulture #Photography #PolishTraditions #Microhistory #polishculture #peasant #slavic

Berta Stöcklin ist heute vor 20 Jahren am 18. Mai 2006 gestorben.
https://geneee.org/berta/stocklin

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

✨ Family history surprise! ✨

On this day in 1872, Alice Maud Thurnham was born. She and her sister Jane “Jennie” Thurnham moved to Bridgwater in 1918.

I came across them while searching for other information, completely by chance.

My grandmother was a Thurnham and my mum has always said that Thurnham is such an unusual last name that we are related to all of them.

(1/2)

#roots #onthisday #inspiringwomen #FamilyHistory #Somerset #bridgwater

✨ Family history surprise! ✨

On this day in 1872, Alice Maud Thurnham was born. She and her sister Jane “Jennie” Thurnham moved to Bridgwater in 1918.

I came across them while searching for other information, completely by chance.

My grandmother was a Thurnham and my mum has always said that Thurnham is such an unusual last name that we are related to all of them.

(1/2)

#roots #onthisday #inspiringwomen #FamilyHistory #Somerset #bridgwater

✨ Family history surprise! ✨

On this day in 1872, Alice Maud Thurnham was born. She and her sister Jane “Jennie” Thurnham moved to Bridgwater in 1918.

I came across them while searching for other information, completely by chance.

My grandmother was a Thurnham and my mum has always said that Thurnham is such an unusual last name that we are related to all of them.

(1/2)

#roots #onthisday #inspiringwomen #FamilyHistory #Somerset #bridgwater

✨ Family history surprise! ✨

On this day in 1872, Alice Maud Thurnham was born. She and her sister Jane “Jennie” Thurnham moved to Bridgwater in 1918.

I came across them while searching for other information, completely by chance.

My grandmother was a Thurnham and my mum has always said that Thurnham is such an unusual last name that we are related to all of them.

(1/2)

#roots #onthisday #inspiringwomen #FamilyHistory #Somerset #bridgwater

✨ Family history surprise! ✨

On this day in 1872, Alice Maud Thurnham was born. She and her sister Jane “Jennie” Thurnham moved to Bridgwater in 1918.

I came across them while searching for other information, completely by chance.

My grandmother was a Thurnham and my mum has always said that Thurnham is such an unusual last name that we are related to all of them.

(1/2)

#roots #onthisday #inspiringwomen #FamilyHistory #Somerset #bridgwater

I've consolidated my toots to clean up how many things are pinned to the top of my profile. (Cat & Dog pics at bottom)

My original (and so far only) introduction: https://social.raytec.co/@mike/109337547914792612

My #7FilmsToKnowMe: https://social.raytec.co/@mike/109735964168285660

A post about the local effects of climate change: https://social.raytec.co/@mike/110689553744246650

A post about the fascist Heritage Foundation's plans to instate Trump as a dictator: https://social.raytec.co/@mike/111288399006384312

A thread about far-right grifters posing as leftists: https://social.raytec.co/@mike/111307512766324253

A bunch of tags so like-minded individuals can find and follow me: #GirlDad #anarchism #communism #AnarchoCommunism #InfoSec #IT #Photography #Music #Antifa #AntiFascist #Vegetarian #Pescatarian #Punk #PunkRock #WoodWorking #Welding #Tinkering #Writing #Blogger #JusticeReform #ClimateCrisis #Sustainability #BikeTooter #cycling #Podcasting #Outdoors #Camping #History #FamilyHistory #FollowsBack #AntiCapitalism

Obligatory Pictures of Pumpkin and Hugo:

LISTEN NOW! 'The Plaiter' with Dr Janet Few, where we hear about hard-working women given a bad press, and we go looking for a woman's parents in Highgate, Middlesex. #genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory #podcast

https://familyhistoriespodcast.com/2026/05/12/s11ep02-the-plaiter-with-janet-few/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

A happy birthday to my Grandpa Henry Neufeld. Born this day in 1922 at present day, Hrushivka, Zhaporihzia,(Russia-occupied) Ukraine.

Here he is beside my Grandmother on their wedding day in 1943.

Oh cool! You know... Google maps is incredible. I was just looking at the location of the old Mennonite village on Google Earth and up popped a landmark pin and photo just down the lane from his birthplace. It is named:

"Staryy Holandsʹkyy Mlyn - Historical landmark
Unnamed Road
Hrushivka
Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine
71775”

Which translates as “Old Dutch Mill”... which would jive with Mennonite history!! I wonder if my Grandpa was ever in that mill, likely not as he was only 2 or 3 when they left for Canada but surely his parents and siblings were.

I wonder if it has survived the war? Another war…

#Ukraine #Mennonite #Family #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #RussiaUkraineWar

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Staryy+Holands%CA%B9kyy+Mlyn/@47.0467057,35.8238797,2894m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x40dd59849c53559f:0xeef602c02324c544!8m2!3d47.0467057!4d35.8238797!16s%252Fg%252F11n7s87khs?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQxMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

A journey into my family’s past taught me to keep sight of the present

Genealogy is an addictive hobby but unlocking family secrets — and dealing with the fallout — can reveal…
#NewsBeep #News #Entertainment #Ancestry #annielouey #AU #Australia #australianstory #familyhistory #familysecrets #genealogy #immigrationpolicy #jasonom #westernvictoria #whiteaustraliapolicy
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/555843/

#geniatip : Nutze die #metasuche von genealogy.net des @blog .

Bei mir hat es gedauert, bis ich die Mächtigkeit dieses #Tool​s erkannt habe. Mit einer #Suche über alle #ofb, dazu #gedbas #grabsteinProjekt #verlustlisten #passagierlisten #sterbebilder #auswanderer #zufallsfunde - alles was das #genealogie - Herz begehrt. Sicherlich eine interessante #Alternative zu #Ahnenforschung​s-#Portal​en wie #familysearch #myheritage #ancestry #findmypast #findagrave & Co.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory

#geniatip : Nutze die #metasuche von genealogy.net des @blog .

Bei mir hat es gedauert, bis ich die Mächtigkeit dieses #Tool​s erkannt habe. Mit einer #Suche über alle #ofb, dazu #gedbas #grabsteinProjekt #verlustlisten #passagierlisten #sterbebilder #auswanderer #zufallsfunde - alles was das #genealogie - Herz begehrt. Sicherlich eine interessante #Alternative zu #Ahnenforschung​s-#Portal​en wie #familysearch #myheritage #ancestry #findmypast #findagrave & Co.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory

#geniatip : Nutze die #metasuche von genealogy.net des @blog .

Bei mir hat es gedauert, bis ich die Mächtigkeit dieses #Tool​s erkannt habe. Mit einer #Suche über alle #ofb, dazu #gedbas #grabsteinProjekt #verlustlisten #passagierlisten #sterbebilder #auswanderer #zufallsfunde - alles was das #genealogie - Herz begehrt. Sicherlich eine interessante #Alternative zu #Ahnenforschung​s-#Portal​en wie #familysearch #myheritage #ancestry #findmypast #findagrave & Co.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory

The surname dictionaries insist that Rowe originated in a name for someone living by a hedgerow or in a row of houses. Given its pre-eminent place in the rollcall of Cornish surnames and the personal names origin of the others in this list, that explanation seems a bit lacking. Even if some with the byname Row got it in the early medieval period from their residence in a row it’s far more likely most gained the surname from a popular first name.

That first name was Raw, a short form of Ralph or Rowland. In the 15th century there were several examples recorded of men whose surname was spelt both Raw and Row and in the 16th century the spelling Raw/Rawe was more than five times more common in Cornwall than Rowe, which was confined chiefly to the east. Yet by 1641 Rowe was three times more common than Rawe and a century later was far outnumbering Rawe, as the latter name suffered a steep decline in its numbers.

Rawe and Rowe were names found across the land in the 16th and 17th centuries. That was still the case in later centuries, although by then there was a marked concentration on the mining districts and particularly West Penwith and Camborne.

https://bernarddeacon.com/2024/08/23/4-rowe/

#familyHistory #Rawe #Rowe

chapter 1 of my musical #memoir focused on our old family #cello is available in English on my blog: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/01/one-hundred-years-of-cellotude.html

The other five chapters only exist in German so far, but maybe I should get on with translating them too.

#familyHistory #chamberMusic #stringQuartet #Germany #history

The Great Western Arcade in Birmingham was built over the Great Western Railway cutting just before Snow Hill Station after it was covered in 1874. The tunnel below is 545m long.
#oneplacestudies
#localhistory
#ancestry
#BAHL
#genealogy
#FamilyHistory
#agragenealogy

The Chirk tunnel is unusual in that it has a towpath running through it. It is 460 yards long and was finished in 1801. The viaduct stands 65 feet above the River Ceiriog.
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy
#Ancestry
#LocalHistory
#BAHL
#OnePlaceStudies
#LlangollenCanal
#Canals

The stunning Royal Border Bridge over the River Tweed at Berwick on Tweed. Designed by Robert Stephenson and built in 1847 and still in use today.
#agragenealogy
#oneplacestudies
#ancestry
#familyhistory
#BAHL
#localhistory
#Railways
#history

Love these little "sheep doors" in Derbyshire which our Shepherd ancestors used to control the sheep. Anyone know if they have a specific name?
#familyhistory
#agragenealogy
#ancestry
#localhistory
#oneplacestudies
#BAHL
#derbyshire

Loving researching a young man who was born in the workhouse, discharged , readmitted and then ran away to join the army. Atcham Union Workhouse, Shropshire.
#localhistory
#shropshire
#genealogy
#agragenealogy
#BAHL
#ancestry
#familyhistory
#oneplacestudies
#workhouse

Some newly acquired relatives who were quite famous in the early 18th century: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-arnoldi-clan.html #familyHistory #lutheran #churchHistory #theology #genealogy #reformation

#Lutheran #clergy in the centuries after the #reformation was a dense family network. Not only did the priests aspire that at least one son followed in their profession, they also networked to ensure their daughters married clergymen. In today's blog entry I've written up some of the resulting #matrilines in my #familyhistory.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-women-of-reformation.html

#history #churchHistory #protestantism

We have two marriages between a Rose and a Nettle among the descendants of the Strasbourg goldsmith in #Winterburg, in the Upper County of #Sponheim, and a few more clergymen: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-clan-of-roses.html #familyHistory #history #churchHistory #germany

meet #Conon the contrarian https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/meet-conon-contrarian.html

#familyhistory #churchHistory #reformation #Lutheran #clergy #genealogy #Sponheim #Trarbach #Birkenfeld

Meet the Caesars: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/lives-of-caesars.html

#familyHistory #churchHistory #Reformation #lutheran #clergymen #clergy #Germany #Sponheim #Caesar