Found a third door in my family story thanks to a DNA test. Turns out the past sometimes knocks back. 🧬✨
Full story here: linktr.ee/skylanarissa
#AncestryDNA #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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🎄 Registration is now OPEN for Connect-a-Thon XVII! 🧩
Join us Apr 10-13 for our 72-hour marathon to bring the world closer together by adding missing relatives to WikiTree profiles. Pick your team, gather your sources, and get ready to connect!
Registration closes midnight ET on Apr 8.
Register now: WikiTree.com/g2g/2008700
This looks like a great event from The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society - NYG&B - just registered. Among my ancestors & relatives I've got farmers, railroad workers, ministers, blacksmiths and a vaudeville performer - so looking forward to so many sessions.
#FTDNA has a #RootsTech2026 unlock special. Very limited time offer.
Upload Your Autosomal DNA (from other companies) to FamilyTreeDNA for free.
You will need to use a code at checkout: ROOTSTECHUNLOCK
Join me at 3 PM MST today for my #RootsTech talk on Loyalists #genealogy #familyhistory
🧩This Week's #ConnectionCheckers Tech Innovators Edition 🤖
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXqVXcX4now&list=PLEqK4ICkQWXRVpB7mRZ9YVB9kYHGSt9Vh
Hollywood icon by day. Inventor by night. Her frequency-hopping patent co-developed during WWII became the foundation for WiFi and Bluetooth technology.
👉 wikitree.com/g2g/2005831
Register to join the Law Library of Congress on Tuesday 10 March 2026 at 1 p.m. EDT for “Navigating the U.S. Congressional Serial Set.”
This presentation will answer questions including:
What can I find in the Serial Set?
How do I locate Serial Set materials?
This webinar will also include live demonstrations and recommendations on when and how to consult print indexes, finding aids, and free online resources to find these materials.
#CongressionalSerialSet #AmericanHistory #Geneadons
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
@genealogy
@histodons
bad: out of bagels
good: cvs short walk away
bad: raining
good: not too hard
bad: actually kinda medium
bad: oh no more rain
good: have bagels
good: bagels dry
bad: i am rather moist
bad: stay up late to dry off
good: stay up late!
good: perfect excuse^H^H^H^H^H^H^H opportunity to look at 19th century #SanbornMaps of northside #Pittsburgh (technically Allegheny City) to find more great grandparents' houses!! #FamilyHistory
My great great grandfather - John Ross Kellam - photo likely taken about 1863-1864 in New York City based on the style of the carte de viste and info I could find about the photographer
Yesterday was Valentine's Day. I'm sharing this blog post from the archives about my third great grandparents who married almost 200 years ago!
https://www.theshamrockgenealogist.com/2021/02/its-nice-day-for-irish-wedding.html
🎉 @djehooty v0.4.0 est sorti ! 𓅞
https://djehooty.org/fr/blog/djehooty-0.4.0-nouvelle-release-serveur-demo
Nouveautés:
- Serveur de démo sur demo.djehooty.org - Essayez le maintenant sans installation !
- Exécutable Linux (en plus de Docker)
- Imports accélérés avec traitement en tâche de fond
- Import de fichiers depuis des URLs
- Suppression de documents et amélioration de l'interface
Essayez Djehooty à https://demo.djehooty.org et dites moi ce que vous en pensez !
#Djehooty #genealogie #OpenSource #FLOSS #FamilyHistory #Archives #Release
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🎉 Djehooty v0.4.0 is out ! 𓅞
https://djehooty.org/blog/djehooty-0.4.0-new-release-and-demo-server
Main new features:
- Demo server at demo.djehooty.org - try it now without installing!
- Linux executable distribution (alongside Docker)
- Background file processing for faster imports
- Import files directly from URLs
- Document deletion & improved interface
Try it out at https://demo.djehooty.org and let us know what you think!
Changelog: https://djehooty.org/docs/changelog/0.4.0
#Djehooty #Genealogy #OpenSource #FLOSS #FamilyHistory #Archives #Release
While exploring the Digital Library of Georgia, Daniel Brown discovered a long-lost photograph of his father standing beside Amelia Earhart at Atlanta’s Candler Field in 1934. The image confirmed a story his father told for decades but never had proof of.
The rediscovery highlights how digitized archival collections preserve history while unexpectedly reconnecting families with their own past.
new #Introduction for the bsky bridge : I’m a #BioChemist turned #ScienceWriter, write a feature for every issue of #CurrentBiology, 2/month, mostly about #ecology #evolution #environment also #human, #cultural things seen thru #biology prism. Plus #ScienceBooks, most recently: #Intertwined: From insects to icebergs Also writing a #musical #FamilyHistory #memoir around #biography of our old #cello. #PirateLuthier fixing unloved #violins #NoCars #cycling, #trains, #liveable #cities #townmouse
What do centuries-old stones, a self-winding watch and child's sock have in common?
Such time capsules often hide in our cupboards: lost treasures, family heirlooms, old diaries or dry pressed flowers. It is not their monetary value that matters, but the stories they tell.
After reading similar posts from @AlexWolfe, @daj and @hryggrbyr, I started to think of my own list.
🌐 https://blog.gridranger.dev/my-oldest-things
#blog #post #indieweb #familyhistory #reading #bloggingchallenge #boardgames
Do you have the new Ancestry "AI Stories" feature in beta yet? I don't think it's quite ready for widespread release, as my #Genealogy #FamilyHistory blog post indicates, but has potential in the future if improved. https://climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2026/02/ancestry-ai-stories-in-beta.html
I have been naughty.
Forgive me.
I answered the #Ancestry pop-up "would you recommend Ancestry to friends and family" with a 10.
Then answered the "Why did you give us a score of 10?" By telling them the way they present search results is often totally unhelpful ... with an "example" of births of John Smiths listed only at the county level with no town or registration district shown.
Lucas Wurtz Hankins (my gg grandfather), William Lucas Hankins (my g grandfather) and Mary Ellen (Ross) Hankins (my gg grandmother)
Likely taken in the early 1880s in Manchester, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/02/photograph-lucas-wurtz-hankins-william.html
Things I’m interested in include: (in no particular order)
#FixingMyLifeOneStepAtATime
#Decluttering
#Quilting
#Embroidery
#DigitalHumanities
#AuDHD
#history
#reading
#FamilyHistory
#writing
#brooches
#dogs
#baking
#cooking
#dementia
#atheism
#Adelaide
#WaggaWagga
#Canberra
#UrbanPlanning
#GreenInfrastructure
#bioswale
#Wordfeud
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During this past weekend's #WikiTree ConnectaThon, I added a lot of distant in-laws. Like really distant! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #FamilyTree
#Genealogy Amy Johnson Crow just announced the new themes for her popular #52Ancestors in 52 Weeks series, with an alternative for 12 Ancestors in 12 Months. I blogged about how her prompts are inspiring and thought-provoking, an opportunity for a fresh perspective on #familyhistory: https://climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2025/12/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-or-12.html
Christine, thank you for introducing me to a circle of #FamilyHistory folk I'd never otherwise get to interact with.
It has been a privilege to be able to listen to you all :)
We have our first registered #OnePlaceStudy in Germany! Xanthe Hall’s Puschkinallee 5, Alt-Treptow One-Place Study (profile page: https://www.one-place-studies.org/puschkinallee-5-alt-treptow/) covers a Berlin villa built in 1885/6, with its coach house and garden. Check out the wonderfully detailed OPS WikiTree page https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Puschkinallee_5%2C_Alt-Treptow%2C_Berlin_One_Place_Study on #OnePlaceWednesday! #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #Berlin #Germany
We‘ve not been active on Mastodon for quite a while—Bluesky is now our busiest social media platform, with Facebook and Instagram being posted to regularly, plus occasional posts to Threads. As an experiment we have ‘bridged’ our Bluesky account to Mastodon. Not all of our Bluesky posts ‘translate‘ well (we're looking at you, quote posts!), but you may find them of interest.
Find (and follow!) us at @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
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