Geneology Thread: Where did we come from?

[MissThundercat]

Re: Geneology Thread: Where did we come from?

I have to do something called a genogram for school; mapping out my family and the tension and terror in the family. I can also use code to say which relationships have been cut off, which ones are good, and which ones are under duress.

But I will admit this: if the people I am related to died off tomorrow, my response would be "pity. Let's get some brunch."

[leswp1]

Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Not sure if anyone will see this after the downgrade but I need help!

I am trying to request someone take a pic from a cemetery in DeLand FLA. I have a deed with plot number etc from 1914. I got an acct for Find a Grave, I sign in and I cannot find how to request someone look for this plot for me. I have googled, gone to FAQ, tried the double screen thing so that I can follow the directions and had mr les look to see if maybe I was missing something. Has anyone ever used this feature and can lead me to the right link to request? I am sooooooooooooooooooo AGRAVATED. Been at this for a half an hour without success. It keeps bringing me back to the search page.

[Kepler]

NatGeo is killing public access to their DNA info for clients on 30 June.

The Genographic Project was launched in 2005 as a research project in collaboration with scientists and universities around the world with a goal of revealing patterns of human migration. Since then, nearly one million people have participated in The Genographic Project through National Geographic’s “Geno” DNA Ancestry kits.

We are writing to let Genographic Project registrants know that, after fifteen years of research, the public participation phase of this research project will end on June 30, 2020. After that time, National Geographic’s Geno website will be discontinued and “Geno” DNA Ancestry Kit results will no longer be available on the website or otherwise.

We highly recommend that you log in to the Genographic Project website prior to June 30, 2020, and download a printable version of your results through the Print Your Results link available on your individual results homepage

[joecct]

Kep

You may like this:

https://www.demilked.com/historical-...ign=DemilkedFB

See you 11/3/20!

[Ralph Baer]

As i mentioned on the Rep Retirement thread a while ago, because of Covid 19, I could not go to NYC over the weekend for what was the 100th anniversary of my mother's birth. My brother did go with his children and grandchildren, and a niece took pictures of my parents' stones and those for my mother's parents which I have uploaded to Find a Grave.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77312674/eric-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77312694/lore-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...a-gunzenhauser
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...r-gunzenhauser

BTW, I will be buried in the same cemetery. Check the Dead Thread. :-D

[leswp1]

As i mentioned on the Rep Retirement thread a while ago, because of Covid 19, I could not go to NYC over the weekend for what was the 100th anniversary of my mother's birth. My brother did go with his children and grandchildren, and a niece took pictures of my parents' stones and those for my mother's parents which I have uploaded to Find a Grave.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77312674/eric-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77312694/lore-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...a-gunzenhauser
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...r-gunzenhauser

BTW, I will be buried in the same cemetery. Check the Dead Thread. :-D

Only if you don't post good morning in the middle of the night. Is there significance to the stones on the grave. I know Scots leave stones on cairns. Is this the same thing?

A wonderful person saw my request on Find a Grave went to the cemetery in FLA that my GGF is buried in and took pictures of the plot for me. There are some nice people in the world. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...arles-anderson

[Ralph Baer]

Is there significance to the stones on the grave. I know Scots leave stones on cairns.

We're too cheap to buy flowers?

It's an old custom. I suspect that if you google it, a lot of different answers will come up. IIRC, it is an eastern European Jewish custom also.

A distant relative took pictures of my father's parents' stones because the names sounded familiar.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...29/julius-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...30/liesel-baer

That means I have only one other ancestor buried in the US, my father's mother's mother, whose grave needs to be photographed. My other seven great-grandparents are buried in Germany. I don't think that any have been uploaded to Find a Grave although some are in cemetery documentation. E.g. http://www.steinheim-institut.de/cgi...idat?id=mmd-99 with the picture on the bottom.

[leswp1]

We're too cheap to buy flowers?

It's an old custom. I suspect that if you google it, a lot of different answers will come up. IIRC, it is an eastern European Jewish custom also.

A distant relative took pictures of my father's parents' stones because the names sounded familiar.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...29/julius-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...30/liesel-baer

That means I have only one other ancestor buried in the US, my father's mother's mother, whose grave needs to be photographed. My other seven great-grandparents are buried in Germany. I don't think that any have been uploaded to Find a Grave although some are in cemetery documentation. E.g. http://www.steinheim-institut.de/cgi...idat?id=mmd-99 with the picture on the bottom.

That is a cool inscription.

[Ralph Baer]

Add to the people whom I have never heard of who are in Wikipedia (well wikipedia.de) who are on my tree: Franz Wilhelm Beidler. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Wilhelm_Beidler

He is apparently mainly famous for being the composer Richard Wagner's first grandson. His wife Ellen Annemarie Gottschalk is the blood relative.

[leswp1]

ancestry.com has now posted a lot of the Probate court books for Scotland. You can scroll thru the books to find multiple people instead of looking each one individually. Great fun. Now to have time to do this. .....

[Kepler]

You WASPs are lucky. Oily Bohunks have only the 1887 Frýdek-Místek Police Blotter.

[leswp1]

You WASPs are lucky. Oily Bohunks have only the 1887 Frýdek-Místek Police Blotter.

Hmm. Yes and no. The basic rule was oldest male child was named after the Paternal grandfather. If there were 5 male siblings who married within a 10 yr period and all produced a male child in the same general vicinity-John Doe. Further they frequently married women with names that were recorded in different ways- Janet, Jenny, Jean, Jessie all for the same woman. It gets complicated. Add that many of them travelled no more than 10 miles and usually stayed working on the same set of farms and UGH! Gordian knot.

[Ralph Baer]

I found out yesterday that my mother had a short-lived first cousin whom I previously did not know about. I suspect that my mother did not know about her either. This cousin lived less than four months, both born and dying while my mother was one year old. She was the only child of a brother of my grandfather, and thus there was no other person who was likely to have mentioned her. Interestingly, this cousin was almost certainly named for the same person for whom my mother was named.

[Kepler]

Hmm. Yes and no. The basic rule was oldest male child was named after the Paternal grandfather. If there were 5 male siblings who married within a 10 yr period and all produced a male child in the same general vicinity-John Doe. Further they frequently married women with names that were recorded in different ways- Janet, Jenny, Jean, Jessie all for the same woman. It gets complicated. Add that many of them travelled no more than 10 miles and usually stayed working on the same set of farms and UGH! Gordian knot.

We have the same problem with 5 names interchangeably for the same person. It's also not unusual for my Popovich ancestors (meaning "son of a priest"! The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!) to have 6 children named Josef. As Josefs die in infancy they just keep trying! Not to mention that Popovich is also rendered as Popović, Popovitsa, Popov, or Popovitch, and not just with regional or generational variation but for the same person depending upon whether records were in the local church baptismal record (Slovak), the town property registry (Hungarian), or the county tax assessor (German).

Slavs get no respect. Hence the name.

[leswp1]

Yikes!

mr les is French Canadien. They named all the med Joseph and the women Mary. DIfferent middle names. They also named the men Maria. Thankfully I am not the one who was researching that