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If you have #SalvationArmy members among your ancestors, be sure to check out War Cry from 1879-1985 which has been scanned by the British Newspaper Archive and released today. It contains a lot of local news. https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2026/04/07/war-cry-salvation-army/ #genealogy #genchat #histodons #nonconformist @histodons @genealogy
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Register to join a free, virtual genealogy event on Saturday 21 March 21 2026.
While sponsored by the Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board (AGAB) and the Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records (ASLAPR), the sixth annual Arizona Genealogy Day IS NOT just for Arizonans - check out the list of topics!Recordings will be made available to all registered attendees for two weeks post-event to accommodate anyone unable to attend on event day. The presentations will be on Zoom.
Registration is limited to 1000 participants.
Native American Genealogy ~ Add a Snapshot to Research ~ How the Weather Affected Your Ancestor
~ Liberate Your Family History Research: Using an “Open Access” Preservation Model ~ Finding Family: Genealogy in the Arizona Memory Project#Genealogy #GenChat #FamilyHistory #NativeAmerican #Geneadons
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Register to join a free, virtual genealogy event on Saturday 21 March 21 2026.
While sponsored by the Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board (AGAB) and the Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records (ASLAPR), the sixth annual Arizona Genealogy Day IS NOT just for Arizonans - check out the list of topics!Recordings will be made available to all registered attendees for two weeks post-event to accommodate anyone unable to attend on event day. The presentations will be on Zoom.
Registration is limited to 1000 participants.
Native American Genealogy ~ Add a Snapshot to Research ~ How the Weather Affected Your Ancestor
~ Liberate Your Family History Research: Using an “Open Access” Preservation Model ~ Finding Family: Genealogy in the Arizona Memory Project#Genealogy #GenChat #FamilyHistory #NativeAmerican #Geneadons
@histodons -
Register to join a free, virtual genealogy event on Saturday 21 March 21 2026.
While sponsored by the Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board (AGAB) and the Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records (ASLAPR), the sixth annual Arizona Genealogy Day IS NOT just for Arizonans - check out the list of topics!Recordings will be made available to all registered attendees for two weeks post-event to accommodate anyone unable to attend on event day. The presentations will be on Zoom.
Registration is limited to 1000 participants.
Native American Genealogy ~ Add a Snapshot to Research ~ How the Weather Affected Your Ancestor
~ Liberate Your Family History Research: Using an “Open Access” Preservation Model ~ Finding Family: Genealogy in the Arizona Memory Project#Genealogy #GenChat #FamilyHistory #NativeAmerican #Geneadons
@histodons -
Register to join a free, virtual genealogy event on Saturday 21 March 21 2026.
While sponsored by the Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board (AGAB) and the Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records (ASLAPR), the sixth annual Arizona Genealogy Day IS NOT just for Arizonans - check out the list of topics!Recordings will be made available to all registered attendees for two weeks post-event to accommodate anyone unable to attend on event day. The presentations will be on Zoom.
Registration is limited to 1000 participants.
Native American Genealogy ~ Add a Snapshot to Research ~ How the Weather Affected Your Ancestor
~ Liberate Your Family History Research: Using an “Open Access” Preservation Model ~ Finding Family: Genealogy in the Arizona Memory Project#Genealogy #GenChat #FamilyHistory #NativeAmerican #Geneadons
@histodons -
Register to join a free, virtual genealogy event on Saturday 21 March 21 2026.
While sponsored by the Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board (AGAB) and the Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records (ASLAPR), the sixth annual Arizona Genealogy Day IS NOT just for Arizonans - check out the list of topics!Recordings will be made available to all registered attendees for two weeks post-event to accommodate anyone unable to attend on event day. The presentations will be on Zoom.
Registration is limited to 1000 participants.
Native American Genealogy ~ Add a Snapshot to Research ~ How the Weather Affected Your Ancestor
~ Liberate Your Family History Research: Using an “Open Access” Preservation Model ~ Finding Family: Genealogy in the Arizona Memory Project#Genealogy #GenChat #FamilyHistory #NativeAmerican #Geneadons
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@genchat I commented on historical newspapers here https://edintone.com/newspapers/ More recent reading suggests that court cases and reports of family events especially funerals are fairly safe. Reporters would collect their facts from the clergyman or undertaker. However treat crime reports with caution - they frequently included wild speculation and by today's standards would have prejudiced the trial. #genealogy #histodons @genealogy @histodons #genchat
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@geneapleau Always a good tip to check the actual document or scan, especially on Ancestry. Often sections get skipped in the transcript when it gets harder to read or the transcriber doesn't understand the context - like marginal notes and end notes etc. #genealogy @genealogy #genchat
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I've been pleasantly surprised by how much French-from-France (*not* French-Canadian) resources have been available thru RootsTech in recent (virtual) years. .
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#GenChat A4
One of my most used is my society memberships - for instance, NCGS has a webinar library for member access on-demand for past presentations.
And Helen Leary's lectures are included!
https://www.ncgenealogy.org/the-north-carolina-series/
Plus the member discount on book purchases from their store.
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Okay, I double-checked and apparently "Descendants with Hints" is available in the app only.
From the FamilySearch app NOT the desktop!
* Open your Family Tree >
* Select an ancestor who's at least a Great-Grand-Parent >
* Open Person / Profile >
* Top right corner (3 dots / hamburger) has "Descendants with Hints" as an optionOn the desktop, your Home Page is the default landing. In the center options about the 3rd is Record Hints
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Okay, I double-checked and apparently "Descendants with Hints" is available in the app only.
From the FamilySearch app NOT the desktop!
* Open your Family Tree >
* Select an ancestor who's at least a Great-Grand-Parent >
* Open Person / Profile >
* Top right corner (3 dots / hamburger) has "Descendants with Hints" as an optionOn the desktop, your Home Page is the default landing. In the center options about the 3rd is Record Hints
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Okay, I double-checked and apparently "Descendants with Hints" is available in the app only.
From the FamilySearch app NOT the desktop!
* Open your Family Tree >
* Select an ancestor who's at least a Great-Grand-Parent >
* Open Person / Profile >
* Top right corner (3 dots / hamburger) has "Descendants with Hints" as an optionOn the desktop, your Home Page is the default landing. In the center options about the 3rd is Record Hints
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Okay, I double-checked and apparently "Descendants with Hints" is available in the app only.
From the FamilySearch app NOT the desktop!
* Open your Family Tree >
* Select an ancestor who's at least a Great-Grand-Parent >
* Open Person / Profile >
* Top right corner (3 dots / hamburger) has "Descendants with Hints" as an optionOn the desktop, your Home Page is the default landing. In the center options about the 3rd is Record Hints
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Okay, I double-checked and apparently "Descendants with Hints" is available in the app only.
From the FamilySearch app NOT the desktop!
* Open your Family Tree >
* Select an ancestor who's at least a Great-Grand-Parent >
* Open Person / Profile >
* Top right corner (3 dots / hamburger) has "Descendants with Hints" as an optionOn the desktop, your Home Page is the default landing. In the center options about the 3rd is Record Hints
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When you're logged in and click on the left-hand corner menu, it should offer Tasks; also if you start from your home page.
"Descendants with Hints" is from a personal profile (which I do thru the Tree to do one generation at a time), then the Right-hand corner menu selections.
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When you're logged in and click on the left-hand corner menu, it should offer Tasks; also if you start from your home page.
"Descendants with Hints" is from a personal profile (which I do thru the Tree to do one generation at a time), then the Right-hand corner menu selections.
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Nope, FamilySearch. I was poking around one day when I got frustrated with the Tasks that hadn't shown any new records to consider for an ancestor.
It takes individual documents, and pulls potential profile matches for a human (TM) to evaluate.
I've found a lot of bare-bones profiles, and hints for 1950/1940 censuses as well as the 20th century military draft registrations that went live "recently"
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With Real Life intruding, it tends to be quick 'n' dirty.
FamilySearch has some useful options for me; the ever-popular Tasks on the drop-down menu.
If you've run thru all the easy/simple ones from there, try the "Descendents With Hints" option - from the Tree, select an ancestor (at least a great-grandparent if not further back), open their profile, and look at the menu selections from the top right (3 dots / hamburger). It will pull from far reaches of these people.I also receive the 5-a-day emails, and have saved the most recent email they send to prompt checking of hints.
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If used to follow @[email protected] or @geneadons you need to switch to @[email protected] #genealogy #familyhistory #geneadons #genchat #AncestryHour #histodons
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Question for family historians:
Have you ever seen an entry a Marriage Banns register where someone has objected to the proposed marriage?
#genealogy #banns #genchat #marriage @genealogy @geneadons -
Question for family historians:
Have you ever seen an entry a Marriage Banns register where someone has objected to the proposed marriage?
#genealogy #banns #genchat #marriage @genealogy @geneadons -
Question for family historians:
Have you ever seen an entry a Marriage Banns register where someone has objected to the proposed marriage?
#genealogy #banns #genchat #marriage @genealogy @geneadons -
Question for family historians:
Have you ever seen an entry a Marriage Banns register where someone has objected to the proposed marriage?
#genealogy #banns #genchat #marriage @genealogy @geneadons -
Question for family historians:
Have you ever seen an entry a Marriage Banns register where someone has objected to the proposed marriage?
#genealogy #banns #genchat #marriage @genealogy @geneadons -
@[email protected] @[email protected] #genchat #wills #probate One thing we could be better at doing is sharing the names of all the people we find in a will. Beneficiaries are not generally indexed, but imagine if you could search a probate archive like that. Some societies have done some excellent work on this e.g. Oxfordshire FHS, see an example here: http://wills.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/
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@projectkinorg probably most Brits forget they have American cousins. In reality, we probably have a lot of them. Food traditions are interesting as they carry a lot of 'cultural memory', particularly down our female, Mitochondrial DNA lines. #mtDNA #genealogy #DNA @geneadons @genealogy #genchat #thanksgiving
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Everything is free this weekend on #FindMyPast #Genchat @genealogy @geneadons #genealogy
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#Findmypast https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search-newspapers Is making its Newspapers free this weekend, 25-28 October. It is the same content as the British Newspaper Archive #BNA #genchat @genealogy @geneadons #genealogy
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@[email protected] @[email protected] #genchat @clsturgeon Craig Sturgeon's 'Memory Keeper' app is another great tool for tracking your DNA research https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/ #MemoryKeeper #TiddlyWiki
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@[email protected] @[email protected] #genchat @clsturgeon Craig Sturgeon's 'Memory Keeper' app is another great tool for tracking your DNA research https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/ #MemoryKeeper #TiddlyWiki
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@[email protected] @[email protected] #genchat @clsturgeon Craig Sturgeon's 'Memory Keeper' app is another great tool for tracking your DNA research https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/ #MemoryKeeper #TiddlyWiki
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@[email protected] @[email protected] #genchat @clsturgeon Craig Sturgeon's 'Memory Keeper' app is another great tool for tracking your DNA research https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/ #MemoryKeeper #TiddlyWiki
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@[email protected] @[email protected] #genchat As someone who is still "the secret" to some in my family, I ask you to consider that the need that some feel for these secrets is rooted in shame & this kind of shame is quite unhealthy for everyone involved. Of course, I'm not proposing that no care should be taken or that anyone should be deliberately outed via a public family tree. But I do think that #genealogists should be concerned with truthfulness in their documentation & shouldn't perpetuate misinformation.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] #genchat As someone who is still "the secret" to some in my family, I ask you to consider that the need that some feel for these secrets is rooted in shame & this kind of shame is quite unhealthy for everyone involved. Of course, I'm not proposing that no care should be taken or that anyone should be deliberately outed via a public family tree. But I do think that #genealogists should be concerned with truthfulness in their documentation & shouldn't perpetuate misinformation.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] #genchat As someone who is still "the secret" to some in my family, I ask you to consider that the need that some feel for these secrets is rooted in shame & this kind of shame is quite unhealthy for everyone involved. Of course, I'm not proposing that no care should be taken or that anyone should be deliberately outed via a public family tree. But I do think that #genealogists should be concerned with truthfulness in their documentation & shouldn't perpetuate misinformation.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] #genchat As someone who is still "the secret" to some in my family, I ask you to consider that the need that some feel for these secrets is rooted in shame & this kind of shame is quite unhealthy for everyone involved. Of course, I'm not proposing that no care should be taken or that anyone should be deliberately outed via a public family tree. But I do think that #genealogists should be concerned with truthfulness in their documentation & shouldn't perpetuate misinformation.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] #genchat As someone who is still "the secret" to some in my family, I ask you to consider that the need that some feel for these secrets is rooted in shame & this kind of shame is quite unhealthy for everyone involved. Of course, I'm not proposing that no care should be taken or that anyone should be deliberately outed via a public family tree. But I do think that #genealogists should be concerned with truthfulness in their documentation & shouldn't perpetuate misinformation.
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@ThierryStoehr @arthurperret IMHO #Ancestris is a very good genealogy program. Probably the best for #Gedcom compliance. Free too! @genealogy @geneadons #genchat
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One more thought on #FANs I'm a fan of #MemoryKeeper as it handles genealogy facts, information and context as just that, without being constrained to immediately attach them to a family. Something that most genealogy programs don't allow you to do. It is also good for broader historical research too. It's free and you can get it here https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/ @geneadons @genealogy #genchat @clsturgeon @genchat
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One more thought on #FANs I'm a fan of #MemoryKeeper as it handles genealogy facts, information and context as just that, without being constrained to immediately attach them to a family. Something that most genealogy programs don't allow you to do. It is also good for broader historical research too. It's free and you can get it here https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/ @geneadons @genealogy #genchat @clsturgeon @genchat
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One more thought on #FANs I'm a fan of #MemoryKeeper as it handles genealogy facts, information and context as just that, without being constrained to immediately attach them to a family. Something that most genealogy programs don't allow you to do. It is also good for broader historical research too. It's free and you can get it here https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/ @geneadons @genealogy #genchat @clsturgeon @genchat
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One more thought on #FANs I'm a fan of #MemoryKeeper as it handles genealogy facts, information and context as just that, without being constrained to immediately attach them to a family. Something that most genealogy programs don't allow you to do. It is also good for broader historical research too. It's free and you can get it here https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/ @geneadons @genealogy #genchat @clsturgeon @genchat
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FamilySearch is hosting a Q&A session about German emigration, with the highly-skilled German genealogist Andrea Bentschneider. The session is in English.
The event goes live on Facebook on Friday 12 April at 7 pm GMT.
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FamilySearch is hosting a Q&A session about German emigration, with the highly-skilled German genealogist Andrea Bentschneider. The session is in English.
The event goes live on Facebook on Friday 12 April at 7 pm GMT.
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FamilySearch is hosting a Q&A session about German emigration, with the highly-skilled German genealogist Andrea Bentschneider. The session is in English.
The event goes live on Facebook on Friday 12 April at 7 pm GMT.
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@KottalGenealogy @bethroots @[email protected] @[email protected] I have potentially found a neat solution to make mind maps for Research Plans workable. If you use 'View Your Mind" - #VYM https://sourceforge.net/projects/vym/ after you have created your map you can easily export it to a spreadsheet, csv or a LibreOffice presentation and quite a few other formats. #MindMap #ResearchPlan #Genchat
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#Ancestry has released 58,000 #nonconformist records for #Hampshire, #England #genealogy @geneadons @genealogy #genchat
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@KottalGenealogy @genchat sadly for a long time a lot of people think that because it's online it must be true, without ever thinking where the historical record might be, who transcribed it etc.? Introduce AI / ChatGPT and you potentially have a complete work of fiction. #genchat #AIgenealogy
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@KottalGenealogy @genchat sadly for a long time a lot of people think that because it's online it must be true, without ever thinking where the historical record might be, who transcribed it etc.? Introduce AI / ChatGPT and you potentially have a complete work of fiction. #genchat #AIgenealogy