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Krispy Wafer posted:My people spent a 1500 years tending sheep in Scotland and it shows in my DNA results. How woolly-pated are you? Randconda posted:EDIT: Just checked, 98.8 percent white (Sorry Nazis, I married a minority and WE BRED. I am forever sullied.)
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Oracle posted:How woolly-pated are you? Yes  Tbf, it's low enough to be background noise.
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Département Haut-Rhin (Upper Rhine, Alsace) have digitized about half of their parish registers (N through Z) and are putting them online from Z down: http://www.archives.haut-rhin.fr/Actualites/p160/Mise-en-ligne-des-registres-paroissiaux The ones for Bas-Rhin (Lower Rhine, Alsace) have been online for a while: http://archives.bas-rhin.fr/registres-paroissiaux-et-documents-d-etat-civil/ Also, FamilySearch have put up a tool to browse their digitized films: https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/
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Welp who’s taking advantage of being forced into hermitage to bang on some of those brick walls? Thank god for online resources.
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Yeah I'm looking at a couple women that are supposed to be sisters but there's a 40 year age difference so they're probably half sisters.
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Mar 16, 2020 20:45
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Thinking about my ancestors that died in 1918 right now
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 My great grandma (sitting) with her brother and sisters, the little girl died from the Spanish flu in January 1919, 17 years old.
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Mar 17, 2020 19:31
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boo, myheritage sold my email address to netflix Also, a couple of my ancestors married in Sweden in 1689. He was from pig-place & she was from fat-place lol Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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Mar 18, 2020 08:17
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Krankenstyle posted:
My great great grandma (very young in this image), who moved to Chicago from Gamleby, Sweden because her kids had gone and done pretty well and moved her and my great great grandpa in the early 1900s, died in 1918. I think I spoke about finding her grave a few years back. 
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Mar 22, 2020 05:52
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I got an email today for a 30 day free trial from newspaperarchive.com, promo code "news" I doubt it's unique to me, so if you have nothing better to do in the next month might be worth checking out.
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Apr 1, 2020 18:18
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skipdogg posted:I got an email today for a 30 day free trial from newspaperarchive.com, promo code "news" I doubt it's unique to me, so if you have nothing better to do in the next month might be worth checking out. Just tested this and it works. Just don't forget to cancel before the 30 days are up!
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Apr 1, 2020 22:56
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Oracle posted:Just tested this and it works. Just don't forget to cancel before the 30 days are up! Sweet! Another thing I just got in my email. My local library has somehow setup ancestry library edition to be used from home. Just had to put my library card number in and I can use it. I only subscribe to ancestry for 6 months every 2 years or so, so this is cool as well.
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Krankenstyle posted:Département Haut-Rhin (Upper Rhine, Alsace) have digitized about half of their parish registers (N through Z) and are putting them online from Z down: Hey, that might actually be of use to me. Of course, that means I will have to start doing work on those lines again and not trying to find people on a census which is impossible because an American trying to spell "Guitreaux" results in me having go through sheet by sheet in between softly weeping.
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Apr 5, 2020 03:25
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I'm looking at my wash-board inventor again, because it turns out he is also missing from the Danish 1845 census. He is seen 16½ years old in April 1841, is unaccounted for for 9 years, and shows back up in the 1850 census — now called a "ship-carpenter". He is not in the appropriate guild records of graduated journeymen, so he must have apprenticed outside the country. But where? I've had no luck in ArkivDigital's searchable index of husförhörslängder covering 1840–1947, so that pretty much rules out Sweden. Was he in Germany, or perhaps in America like he claims to have been in the 1850s? Was he at sea? 
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Apr 30, 2020 16:49
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My cousin had a DNA test done, and apparently we're related to a 10th century Viking woman.
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gently caress yea that is badass I'm reminded of the Lovers of Modena (who died in the 400s), where it turned out that the two skeletons buried hand in hand were both male. Subsequent headlines about it assumed they were brothers or friends, nobody mentioned the possibility of homosexuality for a long-rear end time. we put a lot of assumptions on past societies that probably dont apply. There was also a thing recently where a bunch of artefacts were identified as "probably ritual" and exhibited as such for decades until a seamstress/costumier saw them and was like, this is a tool for doing such and such thing with cloth, they are still in use to this day. archaeology has been old white dudes for hella long Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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Apr 30, 2020 23:14
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My uncle gave me a family tree. My grandfather was the only one to be born in Canada, much as my father was the only one in his family to be born in Canada. But the reason I posted this is like check out the ages of the people in the 1600s. Eighty-Three years of age, in the 1600s? I got some longevity genes, drat. The Mighty Moltres fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Jun 15, 2020 |
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May 11, 2020 02:51
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The Mighty Moltres posted:My uncle (mother's side) gave me a family tree. You were too good for this world, Great Great Great Great Great Great Uncle Edward.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:My uncle (mother's side) gave me a family tree. ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
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The Mighty Moltres posted:My uncle (mother's side) gave me a family tree. That's really neat! Be sure to check the information out yourself 
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British Isles goons: Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is free for a week, starting today
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Wow. I think I have achieved endgame in genealogy y'all, because uh... I don't think I can top this. Meet my 11th great-grandfather, Hatevil Nutter. Yes, its pronounced 'Hate Evil.' Yes, he was a (Puritan) Nutter. The History of Dover, NH by John Scales posted:Elder Hatevil Nutter (1603-1675) The story is told in detail at the Women in History blog: quote:In 1662 three young Quaker women from England came to Dover. True to their faith, they preached against professional ministers, restrictions on individual conscience, and the established customs of the church-ruled settlement. They openly argued with Dover's powerful Congregational minister John Reyner. For six weeks the Quaker women held meetings and services at various dwellings around Dover. Finally, one of the elders of the First Church, Hatevil Nutter, had had enough. A petition by the inhabitants of Dover was presented "humbly craving relief against the spreading & the wicked errors of the Quakers among them". The above-mentioned Constable John Roberts was Nutter's son-in-law (and my 10th great-grandfather). John Greenleaf Whittier (who was also a descendant of his) wrote the following poem about it: John Greenleaf Whittier in 'How the Women Went From Dover' posted:
It goes on and on, you can read the whole thing here. Nutter really, really hated Quakers. Too bad they got the last laugh. Women in History blog posted:Eventually the Quaker women returned to Dover, and established a church. In time, over a third of Dover's citizens became Quaker. On the plus side, I now have the name of every paladin/cleric character I will ever play.
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MyHeritage has a bunch of military records on free access (not sure for how long): https://www.myheritage.com/research/category-3000/military Primarily American, British, Australian, etc. also holy moly at that story, Oracle! Wild times. Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 12:29 on May 25, 2020 |
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Great story Oracle! You're a real nutter alright! I wonder if any of my ancestors from Salem or Plymouth knew him, Puritans all. Heck we could be related. My mom sent me some info from an obit of my great grandfather, stating that he had started a society in Chicago but she could not find any mention of one by that name and assumed it no longer existed independently. I did a few minutes searching, found one with the right start date, shot them an email, and got a reply complete with a link to their first ever newsletter just scanned and put in the web. This included a short biography of my great grandfather! Best part was getting an invite to speak to them, hopefully next year on their 75th anniversary as I am a professional in that field! A good day for me too, but no nutters.
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Bilirubin posted:Great story Oracle! You're a real nutter alright! I wonder if any of my ancestors from Salem or Plymouth knew him, Puritans all. Heck we could be related. Oh my God, that's awesome dude. I love that serendipity sometimes. And yeah, Colonial ancestry is a hot mess of endogamy and is how all those presidents always end up to be related if they tie into any of those lines. Oh wait no its all a conspiracy of a shadow cabal of elite to control the world, my bad. We meet on alternate Wednesdays after the full moon under the Hanging Tree in Salem at the stroke of midnight where we bitch about New York's restrictive record laws and swap child recipes.
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I believe I have identified a regiment that my cavalrist likely belonged to (they were apparently headquartered near where he shows up in 1717, which I randomly discovered in an old genealogical article about the chief of the regiment). So, now going through the accountings of that regiment and have noticed a couple of interesting document types that show up a lot: * Quarter rolls, which name farmers and the soldiers that were quartered with them * Presentation certificates, which name the new recruits being presented as replacement for dead/missing/wounded/dismissed soldiers (also named) * Horse procurement rolls, which name the soldiers receiving new horses (and also their coat, color and markings  )But oh man, there are so many thousands of document images to go through lol 
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May 28, 2020 16:51
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There's a bunch of genealogical type investigation going on here at the moment, some of you may be able to shed more light on it, or at least have a bit of a laugh at the quality 1940s horniness: Found an old letter from world war II
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Looked through roughly 30k images for my cavalristl, no luck so far  So I decided to write up a thing about another ancestor instead, to clear the head...
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Jun 14, 2020 21:58
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Most of my ancestors seem to be farmers, criminals, or both
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Well, same. Also fishermen & soldiers, but the criminals are the most interesting.
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Hell yeah! I solved one of the mysteries about my 18th century Alsatian musketeer (that I'm writing about)! So, he's in the military for 14 years since age 19, and pretty much as soon as he's discharged, there shows up a doctor with the same name, age, and city. It had always seemed unreasonable to me that he would be able to obtain a doctorate inside of a year, so until now I had put it down as a "possible" match and let it rest for several years. Some time later, I discovered that the doctor had a letter published in the city newspaper, wherein he claims to have been cheated out of an embroidered vest by a woman. Looking further into this, I discovered that there was a case in the local small claims court. I got a friendly local to send me scans (this is all in a different country), but it had very few details except for a couple handwritten receipts. The receipts mention a man's name, not a woman, so on a lark I googled the man's name last night. Turns out this man is mentioned in a 2005 dissertation about city musicians (apparently he was the only local apprentice musician to own instruments, which is why he's described in the dissertation), and it further states that his probate was concurrent with the above case, and that there were many claims about debts. So I dug up the probate and it turns out the woman was the man's mother (he died young). But more importantly, the probate says that my doctor had claimed a debt for treatment of the deceased, but he did not get the full amount because "he is not authorized to practice medicine"! That's probably as hard evidence as I'm going to get that my soldier was indeed claiming to be a doctor without having the qualifications!  Now I just still need to figure out in which of the hundreds of Alsatian parishes he was born.
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Supposedly, one of my several-greats grandfathers came to the early US about two steps ahead of the hangman
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Randaconda posted:Supposedly, one of my several-greats grandfathers came to the early US about two steps ahead of the hangman You should look into that.
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interesting article on northern slavery in New York and two women linked via genealogy and slavery https://www.washingtonpost.com/maga...ed/?arc404=true
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Oracle posted:Puritans and Quakers... Awesome history, but Lamprey river sounds horrifying. Looking it up, it does have lampreys, but apparently it's named after a man named Lamprey.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Awesome history, but Lamprey river sounds horrifying. Things Unexpectedly Named After People
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Wrapped up my "article" about the Alsatian musketeer/false doctor for now. Got some nice comments from other Danish genealogists Now I'm back on my Swedish papermaker, who's been an obsession for decades. There's so much stuff to find, and I shudder to think about writing it all up. I must have enough for at least 200 pages by now, jeez. Currently trying to figure out what happened to the little paper factory he ran 1832–34. It seemed to be going well (output steadily rising by 50% YoY) but then it suddenly stopped producing.
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Hey Oracle, do you or anyone else here have experience with Black or American Indian genealogy? That is very much outside my usual wheelhouse, but curiosity is compelling me to know more. Also, my mom has been using the COVID isolation period to prepare her application for membership in DAR and whatever the Mayflower group is, so I hope you guys have good pie recipes. She was also going to apply to the Daughters of the Confederacy, but luckily we were able to convey why that was not a good idea. 
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Brennanite posted:Hey Oracle, do you or anyone else here have experience with Black or American Indian genealogy? That is very much outside my usual wheelhouse, but curiosity is compelling me to know more. There's a whole separate thread for African-American genealogy over in the Minority Rapport sub-forum. So, yeah You can feel free to ask here too but you may find your answer already there. American Indian is trickier but doable depending on when/where you're looking.And yeah, DOC can go jump off a hell of a lot of cliffs.
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I'm eligible to join both SUVCW and SCV. The latter is going to have to do a hell of a lot of soul-searching before I would even consider joining it.
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