I love seeing grandkids appreciate how remarkable their grandparents were. #genealogy
https://www.upworthy.com/ww2-lovers-reunited-letter

#OTD 17 April 1804 Ship Indostan docked in Philadelphia, having sailed from Hamburg, Germany. Among the Germanic passengers was Herman Michael Bosseck. Twelve years later Michael Bosseck indentured an 18-month-old baby in Botetourt County, Virginia. That baby, Christian Peter Bosseck, grew up to be my 4th-great-grandfather. A mystery not likely to be solved is whether Herman Michael Bosseck was the same man who indentured his child.
#genealogy
https://scrappinmyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/05/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-20-christian.html

This week on #52Ancestors we're getting the band back together: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2025/04/52-ancestors-week-16-oldest-story.html #genchat #genealogy

1910 cyanotypes of my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call. I love seeing her smile in these photos - in so many photos - she looks so serious

From Page 18 in the album I'm working on https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/04/early-1900s-call-album-page-18.html

#OTD 16 April 1890 Archie Franklin Maddox was born to Al Maddox and Lizzie Lake in Kingman County, Kansas. He was the youngest, with four older sisters, the oldest being my great-grandmother. No family stories were shared about how he was treated by his sisters, leading me to suspect that they were not very kind to their little brother. The family moved to their Oklahoma homestead after the 1893 land rush. Archie became a farmer and married Glenn Vesta Purvines. They had 10 children before deciding to live at opposite ends of their house.
#genealogy

Company founded after Trump's 2016 election to assist Americans to claim Luxembourg citizenship due to ancestry received a boost in his 2nd term.
A Luxembourg passport also allows holders to move to other EU member states.
Free quiz on the website to find out whether you may meet the requirements; for instance, confusion between the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Province of Luxembourg in Belgium.

#Passport #Luxembourg #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #EuropeanUnion #EU

https://www.luxcitizenship.com/

Our next Help Desk day will be on Wednesday 23rd April at Sprotbrough Library 10.00am-2.00pm. You will be able to access Find My Past and Ancestry websites for free plus 1921 census for free. Volunteers from the society will be there to help and advise you. It is open and free to everyone so do come along and bring a friend. #genealogy #familyhistory

#OTD 15 April 1910
A census taker visited the home of my great-grandparents in Chicago. Walter McFarlane, age 46, was recorded as a cemetery watchman. The family story says that he was a night watchman at historic Rosehill Cemetery. That job is unimaginable. About 5 years earlier he had suffered a traumatic brain injury on the job. He had been a motorman on the streetcars, which did not have a good safety record. A newspaper article in 1904 reported that 143 electric streetcar accidents had occurred in 27 days in June, with 10 deaths and 166 injured.
#genealogy

In my previous post I mentioned updates to the Papers Past newspaper collection. I should have added there is also a separate magazine and journals section there. The most recent updates there are from February this year.

- Digger (Invercargill RSA) (1920-1921)
- Forest and Bird (1976-2004)

For those into family history research, the Police Gazettes in the magazine and journals section are an absolute gold mine of information. Or maybe not!

#PapersPast #genealogy

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals

I noticed another update on PapersPast for April. They include.

- Chronicle (Levin) (Mar 1946-1949)
- Levin Daily Chronicle (1940-1942, 1945-Feb 1946)
- Little Un (Dec 1884-Apr 1885)
- Rotorua Morning Post (Aug 1931-1952)
- Tauranga Argus and Opotiki Reporter (misc. issues Nov 1866-May 1867)
- Tauranga Record and Bay of Plenty Examiner (misc. issues Jun 1867-Jun 1868)
- Tauranga Telegraph (17 May 1917 only)

#genealogy #PapersPast

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers

- was looking forward to work, that's new!
- bathing and cuddling with #Gelbi
- managed to do a #grandma recording in the morning and some research this evening
#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings #genealogy

I was excited to have found #OpenSource #genealogy software for linux like #gramps . Little ones wanted to see more of their family. So I installed it, but...

I'm aware it's a very first-world problem, but my kids have, you know, two dads.

I don't want to add myself as a mother, or default to searching for the 2nd parent from female people.

Is there an alternative that'd be suitable for us, and which allows adding multiple parent-like relationships, and is less strict on sex/gender? #lgbtq

When I first started #genealogy I found so many free resources! Public trees, free websites. It was like a dream come true.

I wanted to give back, help others who were also looking - so I kept my tree public.

Now, after many years of doing this, I’m telling everyone: keep your tree private!

Why?

Here are four reasons: https://ourhiddendepths.substack.com/p/four-reasons-your-tree-should-be?r=6ps5j

This #genealogy malarkey is bloody addictive. #familytree

In today's #grandma recording, I told her about Josef #Steurenthaler from the #Gummersbach area and how I can't connect him to her and her father's Steurenthaler family. What a coincidence, that I found his origin some weeks ago and created his profile https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-184 during this weekend's #April2025ConnectAThon. I also created profiles for 26 descendants and their spouses, which had received from another researcher back then in 2019.
#WikiTree #Genealogy

#OTD 14 April 1824 Helen Mitchell was born to Peter Mitchell and Ann Taylor in Fife, Scotland. There was a start of a christening record in Kinghorn, as if the minister thought the christening would be in that church. The details are not filled in. Instead, Helen appears in a later list in Abbotshall with her siblings, including my great-great-grandmother. Helen died just weeks before the 1841 census, as revealed in a cryptic notation in the parish records: Petter Mitchels Daughter in the South grave of John Taylers property 6 foot dep.
#genealogy

My great-grandmother, Catherine Elizabeth (Dowling) Hartlen, and I share same the birthday. I just wish I was as beautiful as she is in this photo.

#OTD 13 April 1781 The widowed Östen Sunnesson, 77, died in Hannäs parish, Kalmar County, Sweden. His wife, Margareta Larsdotter, had died 6 years earlier, after 46 years of marriage. They were both born about 1704 and married at about age 24. Their children alternated nicely between girls and boys. My 5th-great-grandmother, Stina Östensdotter, was the third child of seven. Little else is known of their lives, as the church clerks did not record his occupation. Only in the tax records might it be possible to learn anything more.
#genealogy