#GenHour Or at the very least, make the label on the default setting "biological (inferred)" and have a separate setting for "biological (DNA tested)".
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@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour Or at the very least, make the label on the default setting "biological (inferred)" and have a separate setting for "biological (DNA tested)".
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour This also comes back to my biggest peeve in #genealogy, which is the default assumption that all children are the biological child of their legally-married parents. Which, as so many people who have taken #DNA tests, quickly discover is NOT true for everyone.
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour How hard would it be for software developers to make the default setting for the child's relationship to parent "undetermined" so that the user has to change the setting to "biological". Make users think about it.
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour If only someone would have *any* awareness adoptees exist when they create or hand out these forms. Does the doctor want history of the genetic family (for which I have 0) or the adoptive family (second-hand smoke risks, diseases influenced by diet, etc.) or both? Give us a clue.
@genealogrebecca.bsky.socialOy. That sounds awful. #GenHour
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour The most extreme case being adopted kids who are barred from having their own medical family history due to privacy laws in closed-records states. So much fun when you're filling out the forms at the doctor's office. I was tempted to make up a stamp: "Heck if I know, I'm adopted."
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour Modern privacy restrictions make me so angry sometimes. Some future genealogist with a distant or no connection to the deceased may have access to these records, but living people now, who may need the death certificate for a study of family medical history, can't get access. 😡
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour How disappointing!
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour Oh, who am I kidding? I do know what gremlins send me off to areas of #genealogy research I should be leaving until later. One of them is called "FamilySearch".
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@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour For the letter shapes themselves, I look for textbooks that introduce children to cursive writing. But I'm having difficulty finding the clerical books used for church-related documents or the legal formularies for probate, etc.
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour Clerks used example books for many of the documents we use now for #genealogy. I would love to find copies but so many times when I ask, people don't know what I am talking about. bsky.app/profile/pack...
@genealogrebecca.bsky.socialHi #GenHour. My news for the week is that I called a few places in New Jersey in the last month (the state in which she died) trying to obtain my great-aunt’s death certificate. As I expected, I can’t get it because I’m a great-niece and not next-of-kin.
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour My top tip for decoding 20th century handwriting (e.g. census records in the USA): find a printed reference with the street names for the place you're studying. City directories street index w/heads of households = instant index. #OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour The image from Kelly's 2nd post, with alt-text.
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@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour This is a tremendous discovery! So many times these clues about the possible movement of records are overlooked.
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@oneplacestudies.bsky.socialGlad you enjoyed it Jan! The recording of Jude’s talk is now available to catch up with (or enjoy again!) via the Members’ Area of our website. #OnePlaceStudies #GenHour
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour Here's another topic I need to get back to for my husband's #FamilyHistory research and for the #OnePlaceStudies as well. There are Methodists in multiple branches of the family and possibly a few Catholics as well.
@packrat74.bsky.social#GenHour I don't know what #genealogy research gremlin drives me to be studying people in the USA when I should be thinking about people in the UK and vice versa.
To get the max value from talks, I should be using the takeaways to inform future research planning but so often the impulse fizzles.