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This is good news. Fee decreases for genealogy records. #Genealogy #Geneadons...

This is good news. Fee decreases for genealogy records. #Genealogy #Geneadons https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2024/01/31/big-win-on-uscis-fees/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=big-win-on-uscis-fees

For #52Ancestors, I interspersed my grandma's remembrances about their time living in Salinas, CA during the Depression with the events...

For #52Ancestors, I interspersed my grandma's remembrances about their time living in Salinas, CA during the Depression with the events during the lettuce worker strikes.
#Genealogy #Geneadons http://www.researchjournal.yourislandroutes.com/2024/01/52-ancestors-the-depression-and-the-lettuce-workers-strikes/

This recounting of the writer's relative who survived the sinking of the Lusitania gave me chills. #Genealogy #Geneadons...

This recounting of the writer's relative who survived the sinking of the Lusitania gave me chills. #Genealogy #Geneadons https://cjhearn.co.uk/blog/52-ancestors-ruth-logan-and-the-sinking-of-rms-lusitania?fbclid=IwAR3JN1Z1aPbYKpFphbYHiFU3FN0ABhVi07FJ7SBxL6PfFIP9QSIFqrGCYX0

Here's my contribution to #52Ancestors Week 2 Origins. This was a fun research adventure when I found a branch of my French Lacrouts...

Here's my contribution to #52Ancestors Week 2 Origins. This was a fun research adventure when I found a branch of my French Lacrouts line in Spain. #genealogy #geneadons #FrenchGenealogy
http://www.researchjournal.yourislandroutes.com/2024/01/52-ancestors-a-branch-of-my-french-tree-in-spain/

I am making another attempt at #52Ancestors. I was not successful at all last year. This is my post for week 1, Family Lore. Martin Kelly...

I am making another attempt at #52Ancestors. I was not successful at all last year.

This is my post for week 1, Family Lore. Martin Kelly was far more successful than his great granddaughters knew. #Genealogy #Geneadons http://www.researchjournal.yourislandroutes.com/2024/01/52-ancestors-martin-kellys-will/

Important to all of us with roots in the UK - https://genealysis.social/@thedanielsgenealogy/111596826430412425

Important to all of us with roots in the UK - https://genealysis.social/@thedanielsgenealogy/111596826430412425

I switched from the Tusky app to the trunks app for Mastodon. Now I have the ability to Quote toot which is nice. #Geneadons

I switched from the Tusky app to the trunks app for Mastodon. Now I have the ability to Quote toot which is nice. #Geneadons

These are so silly they make me laugh#QT - https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/111376116513174535

These are so silly they make me laugh
#QT - https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/111376116513174535

I regularly come across things I've never seen before in #genealogy. William James Streader came to America, settling in Schenectady,...

I regularly come across things I've never seen before in #genealogy. William James Streader came to America, settling in Schenectady, NY in CA 1918.

He became a citizen in 1926. Then for unknown reasons he and his wife returned to England where they are recorded in the 1939 Register.

This is a portion of a letter in his naturalization file. I wonder why the letter was generated. Was he trying to come back to the US and was flagged? He did eventually return to NY. #Geneadons

A couple weeks ago, I made a discovery on my Tolladay line, Someone had added a bunch of descendants of the Streader family to FindAGrave. ...

A couple weeks ago, I made a discovery on my Tolladay line, Someone had added a bunch of descendants of the Streader family to FindAGrave.

I have followed one branch to the USA. Now I have a whole line who went to Australia.

One of the descendants, David William Streader, ended up the Mayor of Bendigo, Australia in the 1940s.

I love how my tree branches out all over.

#genealogy #geneadons

When I first heard about this feature, I thought they were going to connect to maps, gazeteers, historic photos, etc. But pulling random...

When I first heard about this feature, I thought they were going to connect to maps, gazeteers, historic photos, etc. But pulling random photos from people's trees because they've put that place name in the description isn't helpful to me.

I have the new Explore feature in my #Ancestry family tree. I am not sure how helpful this is since it pulls the images from users trees....

I have the new Explore feature in my #Ancestry family tree. I am not sure how helpful this is since it pulls the images from users trees. Do you have this feature? What do you think of it? #Genealogy #Geneadons

If you care about access to your ancestor's social security application, you need to enter a comment by the end of the day...

If you care about access to your ancestor's social security application, you need to enter a comment by the end of the day Monday.

Current proposal would block access until 2092. #genealogy #Geneadons
Deadline: tomorrow! By The Legal Genealogist
https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2023/11/12/deadline-tomorrow/

Honoring the veterans in my Dad's side. His brother Eugene (top left) served in post WWII Europe, my dad (top right) was a cook in the...

Honoring the veterans in my Dad's side. His brother Eugene (top left) served in post WWII Europe, my dad (top right) was a cook in the army serving in Japan during the Korean Conflict, my dad's aunt Marie Alexine Lassalle who served in France in WWI in the Army Signal Corp as a switchboard operator and translator aka Hello Girl, and my dad's dad Jean Lassalle who served in WWI though his ship arrived in France just as the war ended. #Genealogy #Geneadons #VeteransDay

Honoring the veterans in my mom's family. These are her uncle, Jose Pacheco (aka Joe Pacheco Smith) served in WWI, her first cousin,...

Honoring the veterans in my mom's family. These are her uncle, Jose Pacheco (aka Joe Pacheco Smith) served in WWI, her first cousin, Theodore Souza who was a tail gunner with the Doazy Doats who flew missions over France in WWII, and her brother, Donald Smith, who served post WWII stateside. #Genealogy #Geneadons #VeteransDay

Trying to get caught up on the #WikiTree Symposium videos. This is an excellent presentation by the Photo Detective, Maureen Taylor, on...

Trying to get caught up on the #WikiTree Symposium videos. This is an excellent presentation by the Photo Detective, Maureen Taylor, on women in photographs and the clues those photos present.

It's available online for 30 days.
#genealogy #geneadons
https://www.youtube.com/live/IPUEwXbaAUo?si=7rtDcymwC704X1W9

This was a really informative webinar on how women were affected by US citizenship laws. It wasn't that long ago that married women had...

This was a really informative webinar on how women were affected by US citizenship laws. It wasn't that long ago that married women had next to no legal rights. Well worth watching if you have immigrant ancestors. It's free for a week. #Genealogy #Geneadons https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/finding-females-in-us-naturalization-records-1790-1945/

I like this idea of creating an ancestral immigration map in Google Maps. I might have to give it a try ast their are many immigrants in my...

I like this idea of creating an ancestral immigration map in Google Maps. I might have to give it a try ast their are many immigrants in my pedigree chart. #Genealogy #Geneadons
https://family-tree-advice.blogspot.com/2023/10/ancestor-map.html

This is the last one I will post for tonight. The prompt was "family tree painted like 1930 mural". I wanted to use "in the...

This is the last one I will post for tonight. The prompt was "family tree painted like 1930 mural". I wanted to use "in the style of" a famous painter, but each time I tried I got blocked and a warning for harassment.

These are hilarious because it literally put the people in trees. It's a tree growing families LOL

Have you been playing with AI image creators too?

I need to play more to get the hang of making prompts.
#genealogy #geneadons

This is another attempt using Bing's AI Creator. 1st prompt "genealogist working on family tree". I got a kick out of the...

This is another attempt using Bing's AI Creator. 1st prompt "genealogist working on family tree". I got a kick out of the literal interpretation of tree.

2nd prompt was "modern genealogist working on family tree". Note now everyone is younger and there are no trees in sight.

Someone else had done a similar prompt with a different image creator and each time they got men. So, it's interesting that Bing generated women.
#genealogy #geneadons