Every once in a while I dabble with the family tree I started during lockdown.
Every single time I get into it I end up trying to unravel a family of shrimp fisherfolk from Ramsgate in Kent from the mid / late 19th century.
I suspect they didn't do a lot of fishing looking at the number of children they had.
It doesn't help that all the children had nicknames and 'also known as' names.
What happens to your DNA data now that 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/23andme-data-security-1.7492589
Company says genetic data could be sold to other companies but will remain protected
How to delete your 23andMe data after the company filed for bankruptcy
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339695/how-delete-23andme-data-bankruptcy
I just found out that my branch of the Plummer family came to the US from France around 1800. I expect my Dad, youngest brother and uncle will all either change their names or their voter registration. #Geneology
I just subscribed to #MyHeritage with their current discount and imported the family tree my late grandfather had been working on for decades, and boy, is this keeping me occupied. I'll have to get my family on this to ease the burden. #geneology #ancestry
I’m sharing a 2 part, free oral history workshop series for the Mint Hill Historical Society this coming Saturday, July 13 and the next Saturday, July 20.
For more info, see either of these links:
https://medium.com/@wfryer/oral-history-workshops-july-2024-53ca214667ab
or:
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2024/07/09/oral-history-workshops-july-2024/
Please share with others interested in family and community oral history!
I do genealogy work.
I’ve done *a lot.*
I haven’t collated it all because, my goddess, what a gargantuan task.
Adoptee (me) found Dad after having no sense of self.
I’ve found I have at least 4 12th G grandparents that came over on the Mayflower.
Three from mum, pat and mat, 1 from Dad, pat.
So freaking far. Only 53 people survived the 1st winter.
It doesn’t make me feel good at all.
How would YOU feel?
PLEASE boost. Input from colonized people more than welcome.
Family photos part 2. First was found behind the 1920s photo in my last post, I side the same frame. No idea who it is, but this was dated 1928. The second, no idea if the year is deliberate or accidental. Also no idea who the woman is. This I think is my great grandmother, mother of my maternal grandmother. Taking this from the next photo, though faded, shows her with my great grandfather. Thought maybe @floofpaldi might find this and the previous post interesting. #geneology
(2/2) narrative. We highly recommend this film.
Not particularly famous as an individual, but we always had this family story about how an ancestor had "run off with a lord's daughter", and through research I was able to prove it! Not actually "ran off" because they had both been born in Canada rather than their homelands, but she was from a very well respected, high ranking family (to this day) and his (my) family... isn't :-)
I am "older" and am now in possession of many things that have been passed through the family. I know what they are, but my heirs really don't (not my kids).
Since both my parents have passed, I am the only one left to be able to tell stories from when they were young and we lived abroad, just the 3 of us. My brother was too little to remember anything.
I have a lot of pictures that I would like to connect with text + my voice telling about what they are.
How?
After a conversation with @floofpaldi the other day, I signed up for a free trial on Ancestry. Found what I'd sort of known already - nothing interesting. Nothing whatsoever for Sam's side of the family, even his parents aren't in any searches. But I did find this photo of my great grandparents, whom I've never seen before. My great-grandmother, Edith, was supposedly a renowned psychic and tarot reader, though I only have family stories as evidence of that.
#geneology #familyhistory
Part of the reason I have never submitted my DNA (knowingly) to any of these 'Ancestry/DNA' sites.
My Norwegian great-grandfather Haaken, who got married one day & started out for Minnesota the next.
Someone I know said, "19th century HOTTIE" and who am I to argue?
Chinese seamen who had helped with the war effort in Work War 2 and had families here were just rounded up & forcibly deported without a word to their families. To their families they just didn't come home. They just disappeared.
DNA Family Secrets, Series 3: Episode 4: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001rkld via @bbciplayer
#WorldWar2
#ChineseSeaman
#Deportation
#Racism
#DNAFamilySecrets
#Geneology
#History
#DNA
On the geneology side of it, the field is fraught with selective bias.
Think: by statistical analysis, every European is related to Charlemagne.
Do the math: how many great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents do you have? Winnowing a line thru this exponential map of ancestors is selective story bias. You discount one to prefer another. We are the product of many.
For the sake of clarity, this is a general rule and should not be applied to every person.
#geneology
No, You Don't Really Have 7,900 4th Cousins
DNA has the potential to be an essential and exciting genealogical tool. But many Eastern European Jewish testers find their DNA results completely overwhelming and unnavigable.
In this talk, Jennifer Mendelsohn will help those with Ashkenazi heritage learn how to make sense of their DNA results.
She’ll cover the basics of DNA testing, including why our match lists are so large (hello, endogamy!), why all our matches seem to match each other (endogamy, again!), and how to spot the meaningful matches and separate them from the faux ones.
Using real-life examples of DNA success, you’ll learn techniques that will help you work effectively with DNA to expand your Ashkenazi family tree
10 Million Names is building a free public database of enslaved people of African descent in what's now the US (1500-1865). A network of genealogists, cultural orgs, & historians to connect with people inquiring about family history. Data entry began in August & will grow.
This should aid modern descendants seeking #reparations #grants. (upthread)
https://10millionnames.org/
#10MillionNames #Slavery #Geneology #USHistory #BlackMastodon
