HistorySheWrote<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 14 March 1850 George Tookey was born in Chelsea, Middlesex, England, to William Tookey and Mary Ann Seymour, and was baptized at St. Pancras. He was the oldest of three siblings who became a carpenter. He married Lucy Hardcastle in 1884 and it appears they had no children. By 1901, he had disappeared, possibly dying in 1900. He was an older brother of my great-great-grandmother's last husband. Though his records are few, I hope his carpentry work was a good legacy.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
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HistorySheWrote<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 13 March 1893 Pearl Elisabeth Floodman was born in Burnett County, Wisconsin, to John Hugo Floodman and Anna Holtquist, who died when Pearl was only 13 years old. As the oldest of 6 children, Pearl very likely had to take on extra housework. Fortunately there was an extended family in the area. She married at age 20 to a minister whose work took their growing family all over the United States for the next 27 years, until his death. She raised 5 children and never remarried, dying at the age of 92. She was my grandfather's second cousin.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
#genchat 🦣<p>March 15 - <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/genchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genchat</span></a> on Mastodon - Ethics & <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> - Be there!! <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lor.sh/@genchat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>genchat</span></a></span></p>
HistorySheWrote<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 12 March 1815 Anders Ersson Forss was born in the parish of Björnlunda, Södermanland. His father and brother Carl took the surname Nyström, while Anders and Lars took the name Forss. Three older siblings died in childhood. The youngest brother Lars, 20, froze to death on Anders' birthday, 12 March 1844, while out in the weather. He was buried in May, so it is likely his body was not found for several weeks. Only Anders, my ancestor, and his brother Carl Nyström were left of 6 siblings. Both have many living descendants today.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
J. Paul Hawthorne<p>If you missed CeCe Moore talking about her involvement with the <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> show Finding Your Roots at the recent RootsTech conference, then you should check it out!</p><p><a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/FindingYourRoots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FindingYourRoots</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/GeneticGenealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneticGenealogy</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/RootsTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RootsTech</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/FamilySearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FamilySearch</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/session/telling-stories-with-dna-case-studies-from-pbs-finding-your-roots" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">familysearch.org/en/rootstech/</span><span class="invisible">session/telling-stories-with-dna-case-studies-from-pbs-finding-your-roots</span></a></p>
PattyHankins<p>Also as a followup to a discussion in a SLIG class - here's how to merge two USGS Topographical Maps - because of course the area you're interested in is right on the border of two maps . . . </p><p><a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/03/combining-two-usgs-topographical-maps.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025</span><span class="invisible">/03/combining-two-usgs-topographical-maps.html</span></a></p>
PattyHankins<p>Yesterday in the SLIG class I'm taking a question came up on how to make hard to read digital images easier to read - here's one way to do it - instructions for both Photoshop 2025 and Photoshop Elements 2023</p><p><a href="https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/03/brightening-up-hard-to-read-document-in.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025</span><span class="invisible">/03/brightening-up-hard-to-read-document-in.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a></p>
HistorySheWrote<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 11 March 1870 Carl Ekström died in Björsäter parish, Östergötland. He was only 51 years old and had been married to Hedvig Elisabeth Blom less than 10 years. He must have been in poor health, as he had been a crofter, but during the last 2 years of his life he was a laborer for the man who took over the croft. Carl left a widow and 4 young sons, all of whom lived to adulthood. They cared for their mother as well as they could, but she ended up in the poorhouse at age 68. Carl was an older brother of my great-great-grandfather.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
Marian Burk Wood<p><a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Free</span></a> Come watch my Zoom webinar about using Fold3.com for researching ancestors' military and non-military records, on Saturday March 15th at 1 pm Pacific Time. Hosted by Whittier Area Genealogy Society in California! Check image for link to Zoom sign up. Hope to see you on Saturday!</p>
HistorySheWrote<p>I have a question for the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Hungarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hungarian</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> and <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a> community about a name change.</p><p>While digging in my cousin's roots, I found a name change that is mysterious to all of us. I hope it makes sense to someone who can explain it.</p><p>The tailor Aron Lefkowitz, a US immigrant from <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Hungary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hungary</span></a>, married Rosa Holtz, whose parents were from <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>. They named their son Kalman. </p><p>Around 1915, he changed his name from Kalman Lefkowitz to Charles Lee Kramer. Is there a correlation in those names?</p>
HistorySheWrote<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 10 March 1763 Lena Pehrsdotter was born to Pehr Johansson and Stina Östensdotter in the parish of Hannäs, Sweden. Her father died the following year and Stina, my ancestor, remarried. Lena was the second child of 9, with 2 dying young. She married Jaen Ingmarsson at 30, had 3 daughters, and died at only 36 from what appears to be a stomach malady. Jaen quickly remarried and raised at least 2 of his daughters to adulthood, including an 8-month-old. That baby beat the odds. The third is hiding in the records.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
PattyHankins<p>Blog post with the page of Cyanotypes found in my family photo album from the early 1900s is at <a href="https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/03/early-1900s-call-album-page-7.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025</span><span class="invisible">/03/early-1900s-call-album-page-7.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Cyanotypes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyanotypes</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/AltProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltProcess</span></a></p>
HistorySheWrote<p>Sometimes genealogy has actual usefulness beyond learning about history and our place in the world. </p><p>A cousin reached out to me asking about our Swedish heritage because they want to move to Sweden. Apparently Americans with a grandparent born in Sweden have a special path, which I didn't know. I told my cousin that sadly they don't have a qualifying grandparent.</p><p>Yesterday it hit me that this cousin has a living parent with a Swedish line. </p><p>Last night I did a very quick study on that parent's line, which is not a shared line. And yes, there are grandparents born in Sweden. Whether my cousin can use it to their advantage is unknown. My fingers are crossed.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
HistorySheWrote<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 9 March 1772 Anna Ulrich was born in <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Talheim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Talheim</span></a>, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Freiburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Freiburg</span></a>, Württemberg. She was the oldest of 14 children born to my ancestors Michael Ulrich and Agatha Irion. Nine of those 14 children died before age 16. Anna's family is very confusing. She had 4 children before marriage, with only one son living to adulthood. She married Johannes Irion in 1814 and a different Johannes Irion in 1822. At least she didn't have to worry about calling her second husband by the wrong name!<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
Daniel Loftus<p>New post 'Memento Mori' is out now. Read it here:</p><p>Substack: <a href="https://danielloftus.substack.com/p/memento-mori" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">danielloftus.substack.com/p/me</span><span class="invisible">mento-mori</span></a><br>WordPress: <a href="https://danielmloftus.wordpress.com/2025/03/09/memento-mori/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">danielmloftus.wordpress.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/09/memento-mori/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/MotherAndBabyHomes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherAndBabyHomes</span></a></p>
Christine McCloud<p>Well, <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/RootsTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RootsTech</span></a> ended yesterday. There is one more class I need to watch, since its livestream was down yesterday. Now I have to re-focus on <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/genchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genchat</span></a> . <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>How Genealogy Helped Me Connect With the Grandfather I Never Knew <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/812736/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/812736/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/dad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dad</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Family</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/grandfather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grandfather</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GrandpaLouie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandpaLouie</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/letter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letter</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MilitaryDocument" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryDocument</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photo</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/sabina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sabina</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>story</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TruckDriver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TruckDriver</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Work</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/year" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>year</span></a></p>
HistorySheWrote<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 8 March 1868 John F Vosseler was born in Decatur, Illinois, to George Vosseler and Elizabeth Childers. John was 9 and his sister, my great-grandmother, was only 7 when they were orphaned. They lived for the next 10 years with a much older half-sister in Centralia. At her death, John headed to Chicago. It took 4 years until he was settled and able to send for his sister. John held a variety of jobs during his life, including streetcar conductor, milk delivery man and farmer. He and his wife, Anna Wender, died 7 months apart in 1921. <br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
ManyRoads 🇺🇦 Cui bono?<p>If you are interested in researching Quebec & Nouvelle (New) France. I have created a bunch of tutorial materials (all Free, no paywall or subscription req'd).</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Quebec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quebec</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewFrance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewFrance</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.many-roads.com/help/researching-nouvelle-france/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">many-roads.com/help/researchin</span><span class="invisible">g-nouvelle-france/</span></a></p>
HistorySheWrote<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 7 March 1865 Johan Hugo was born in the parish of Ystads Sankta Maria, Skåne (Malmöhus), to Johan Andersson and Ida Carolina Fors. He was the eldest of 3 children. The family emigrated when he was about 11 years old. They settled on a farm in the area of Trade Lake, Wisconsin, and changed the family name from Andersson to Flodman/Floodman. Five years later, the father died and 16-year-old Johan carried on farming. He married and had 8 children, with 2 dying in infancy. His wife also died young at age 34, leaving him to raise the children on his own. He was my gteat-grandmother's first cousin.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a></p>
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