Genealogy

I’m going to be trying this next week I’ll be updating with results

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/18/nx-s1-5002241/this-database-could-help-descendants-of-enslaved-people-learn-about-their-ancestry

Hi Lemmy, I wanted to share a story about trying to find a very distant ancestor with DNA.

In the early 1800s, my 3x great grandfather came to Canada from Portugal. I have no record of his birth, his immigration or anything from before 1850, and he definitely changed his name after leaving Portugal. For a long time, I thought that I would never be able to break this brick wall.

But about a year ago, I noticed something interesting in my Ancestry DNA matches. I found several distant relatives with Portuguese ethnicity who consistently share DNA with descendants of my 3x great grandfather. I realized that since I have no other Portuguese ancestors, they must be related through my 3x great grandfather.

In fact, almost all of these matches had ancestors from a small island called Porto Santo in the Madeira archipelago.

I decided to give triangulation a shot since some of the DNA matches had public family trees. Using the Madeira archives website, I built off of their research and extended 3 trees back to the late 1700s. When I did this, I found a few duplicate ancestors, but none that show up in all 3 trees.

Which brings us to now. I've not been successful so far at triangulating my 3x ggf, but I feel so close. Out of curiosity, I made a rough calculation of the likelihood that 3 random people with ancestors from Porto Santo share the same 4x ggf, and it came out to 0.4%. So if I get a triple match in my DNA matches family trees, I can be almost certain that I found a close relative to my 3x ggf.

Any thoughts or advice? This is probably the nerdiest thing I've done to solve a mystery. I'm not sure if it'll work to be honest, but I find it crazy that DNA can make it even remotely possible.

I'm sure not many of us here are from Slovakia but just wanted to share.

So this is kind of embarasing but after 4 years of making family tree I found out that 1930 and 1940 census from Slovakia is apparently online. I don't know how I missed it. Nevertheless to say the least, my excitement has been through the roof for like 2 weeks.

Note that 1940s census is "blacked" since it hasn't passed 90 years from its creation. It'll be "un-blacked" in 2030. However you can still see the names which might be also helpful (it was for me).

Note 2: there is an (quite successful) attempt at indexation of the results here:

https://scitacieharky.sk/

Note 3: you cannot download the forms because of license. Printing sucks so screenshots are probably the only option

I’d like to but the privacy problems are holding me back

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while something less complex than your normal chart. Something fun to look at like this

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For me it’s my 5th great grandmother anyone further back in the tree is my ancestor because I think 6 greats is a bit much.

This is something I’ve always wanted to do since I’ve started genealogy research for my family.

When I was way younger I had 2 great grandmothers I didn’t know what a great grandmother was until I was older to me they were just my grannies. I lost one of them years ago and there isn’t a lot about her out there. Someone I knew in my lifetime and I’ve had to dig deep to find records about her.

I’ve still got family left who know a lot about my family history and I’d like to interview them before I don’t have a chance anymore has anyone done this themselves?

When doing genealogy there’s many different documents to look through my favorites to find are census records and death certificates because they provide a lot of info in very few documents. However there are a lot of other types including social security index records and tax records. Today I am asking what type of record or document has a lot of good information that you don’t see used enough in genealogy?

The one who seemingly has no records or takes so much work to dig up one record

I finally found some Info on mine. I went back to the basics and asked some family who was alive when I believe this mystery person was and it helped a lot. let’s hear yours!

I know folks here on Lemmy love FOSS so I’d suggest Gramps if you’re looking for suggestions!

Please fill out forum to apply https://forms.gle/E2baEBSF6LZBgtkr9

For me anything before about 1750 is pretty murky and the records are harder to find and confirm

Did they live amazing live? Did they pass away in a odd way? Let’s hear Whatever stories you’d like to share!

I’ve done this a few times including members of my family who passed in the 1800s. It always felted strange knowing this is my family from over 200 years ago and I can visit their final resting place even today. Has anyone else done this and what’s the oldest headstone you’ve visited?

I’ve seen this a lot in my research every family seems to have one even my family tree has a women some claim was a Native American(or about 3 other races the story isn’t clear) but what’s up with this?

Hello everyone! As the previous mod of this community is no longer active I requested to be made mod and am very thankful to the admins to granting my request. Over the next week I will be attempting to revive this community so stay tuned!

Hello, I just wanted to share with you the info that I successfully found my great great grandfather which I mentioned in previous post here

https://lemmy.world/post/186728

Just few days ago I received the death certificate from Wisconsin Department of Health Services and I can confirm that it's my great great grandfather and the grave I mentioned in previous post is indeed his grave.

I want to thank everyone who helped me, it was a wild ride and it took few years but at last, I reached successful finish. Thank you all

>Researchers have found that previous studies analyzing the genomes of people with European ancestry may have reported inaccurate results by not fully accounting for population structure. By considering mixed genetic lineages, researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, demonstrated that previously inferred links between a genomic variant that helps digest lactose and traits such as a person’s height and cholesterol level may not be valid.

Although this article refers to medical issues, it could have an impact on implied associations for DNA genealogy.

Hello everyone I made a post earlier but I decided to delete it. I worded it very poorly and would like to rephrase it. From what I can tell the first ever photo was taken in 1816 or 1826. If anyone can find other wise please let me know. There is a famous picture of my of my 5th great grandmother that has been passed off as her for many years but I was able to prove that It was a different women entirely. Some people claim to have photos dating back to the 1700s which I believe are not authentic but I could be wrong. I am sorry for my earlier post as I wrote it quite quickly. I hope to see this community more active too thanks for reading.

If you know me on r/genealogy, you've seen this post from me before. It usually succeeds in generating conversation, so I'm hoping we'd all like to talk about it here.

So for me:

1. Morgan Cremin b.1821 m. Ellen Egar b.1826

They married in 1848 in Co. Kerry and promptly boarded a ship for the U.S. in order to escape the famine. They settled in SE Illinois. It appears Ellen's father's name was Jacobus, which I think is James? Cremin, I have learned, is an agnomen for McCarty, and indeed, my uncle has a lot of McCarty matches at FTDNA. In the U.S., the name morphed into Crimmins.

2. George Hazlett b. 1795 m Agnes McKee b. 1799

Family lore says George's family were originally from Scotland, but I haven't confirmed that. His children were born in Co. Monaghan. I found an Agnes McKee born 1799 in Co. Down, which might be my Agnes (she went by Nancy). George and Nancy and their adult children also fled the famine in 1850. George died on the ship, and Nancy and her children settled in Monona, Iowa.

3. George Hazlett Jr. b. 1824 m Jane Whittaker b. 1830

In Monona, Iowa the younger George married Jane Whittaker, who had emigrated from Co. Sligo with her aunt and uncles. Her parents and sister had all died in the famine. Her aunt who cared for her was named Ellen Irwin.

4. Robert Stunkard b. 1759

He settled in Pennsylvania, and may have been born in Co. Down. It's been suggested to me that the name might have originally been Stankard.

5. Samuel Clark b. 1790 m Jane Millar b. 1785

Samuel and Jane were from County Down and they settled in Quebec.

Hi everyone, I have this address from a Milwaukee cemetery, the person is maybe my gggfather. If I read it right it's "3511, 37th street"(No. means North? Or number?) I wanted to verify this by finding this address in a 1930 census (he died in 1934). I'm not from US and I'm really struggling to understand the US street system and how the collection of that census was performed.

I found this website to help me narrow the results

https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html?year=1930

so I put there the address and as suggested, I took a look on the Google Map to see which street crosses it. The closest is Keefe Ave so I set it as such. It gave me 2 results.

https://i.imgur.com/mEtT0dE.png

I went through both of them and nothing. Actually the house numbers on 37th street weren't even close to 3511 in those reports, they were around 1000 - 1500.

What am I doing wrong? How the street numbering works in the US? Also just out of curiosity - why weren't addresses indexed in Family Search?

How do you manage your trees? Myself, I use webtrees. The interface may be a bit "old" and the handling of media in particular could have been better, but it's an online solution (so I have my tree available all the time), it's open source, it's 100% standards compliant, and the community is wonderful, so ... What is your favourite programme?