A secret cache of census material for Malahide: yes please! cbgenealogy.ie/secret-cache... #AncestryHour #GenHour #IrishGenealogy #Genealogy #Speirgorm #Malahide

A repost of my #AATP talks for #AncestryHour

1. Letters of a Musician on HMS Victory, 1808-1812
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2. Some Victorian Parlour Games
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#AncestryHour Of course Ancestry was bound and determined to throw me off track. But I found what I was looking for at FamilySearch despite them.

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#AncestryHour Yesterday I managed to find some things I was looking for using FamilySearch Full Text Search! It was refreshing to complete an actual research goal instead of my usual "let's just toss in a name and place and see what happens" Bright Shiny Object forays into Full Text Search.

#AncestryHour I am ducking out early today for a talk at the Allen County Public Library's Genealogy Center.
I love researching with maps!
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#AncestryHour Greetings, all!

Various mishaps on my part have kept me away from #AATP but I hope I can see some of the presentations before they vanish.

How has your research been going?

I'm catching up (and continuing) with #AATP this week with another banger from Linda Hammond about Mind Mapping, and an interesting look at visualizing ancestor movement using Excel's 3D Maps from Dr Sabine Abakayov.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #AncestryHour
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Genealogy Matters Magazine has a Rising Research category for articles showing how you found, evaluated & connected the evidence. An Author's Note tells what rests on records and what on inference.
Free preview of the October issue: gmmagazine.aflip.in/6ea1760229.h...
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#AncestryHour I don't know if I can make the live event, but I hope to see the recording later on YouTube. Congrats again on the release of your book! I'm looking forward to reading it.

Really looking forward to #AATP26! See you there, at #GenHour on Thursday, or see you again next week for #AncestryHour.

#AncestryHour WDYTYA magazine shared a link to their guide on circus life this week, which reminded me of this startling discovery. l did not expect to find a relative who had gone away with the circus, nor did I expect what happened later.

#AncestryHour I encourage everyone who is stuck in their #FamilyHistory or #genealogy to take a break, find the local newspapers, and just read them to see what's happening in the places your people lived. You don't have to have a formally registered #OnePlaceStudy. Just have fun exploring.

#AncestryHour Yes, and sometimes with the plays you get a cast list so you can see who performed which roles.

I also like seeing how far news spread geographically, and in time. My farthest-out stories so far: a "150 Years Ago" column; USA news in papers from Yorkshire, & English news in NZ/AUS.

Hello #AncestryHour just to let you know I'm organising this free event to coincide with my book release. Hope you can join me.

One of my great-grandfathers played in an accordion band! Like you, this was a nugget gleaned from a newspaper article. It even lists some of the tunes that were performed. #AncestryHour

#AncestryHour You never know when some one-line story about a person visiting relatives will crack open a research problem, or confirm an analysis that you worked out the long way. I especially like description of events with out-of-town guests like anniversary parties. So useful for #FAN research.

#AncestryHour so many #genealogy and #familyhistory events! #AATP starts online tomorrow. I won't make the NZSG Auckland Family History expo this weekend, but making up for it here! Huguenot family history at SOG in London, 2 days at The National Archives. Next week APGs PMC event online too 🙌

#AncestryHour US historical newspapers, especially in the social news sections, can be full of things like this. Which club put on a show, who acted in a play, who was known for cooking at the clambake. I enjoy the accounts of market days and local fesivals in papers from England, too. 📰

#AncestryHour Lately I've been reviewing old research, looking for clues I may have missed in records already collected. I've also been searching newspapers, and have made a lot of little discoveries. One of my husband's great-grandfathers was known for his harmonica solos!

And for anyone else transcribing old documents, this newly published book from @federationfhs.bsky.social is excellent!

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