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Since September 2021, I've been busy photographing, transcribing, and documenting the gravestones at my local churchyard, St Nicholas, Sutton Parish, Surrey (now Greater London). 👉 Here's a thread about 15 months spent in a #graveyard. [1/25] #AncestryHour 
This entire project started as an excuse to get outside and get some exercise. “Why not photograph a few gravestones and add them to @FindaGrave?” I said... [2/25] #AncestryHour
Yeah, right. Like an enthusiastic #genealogist is just going to take a few gravestone photos. Absolutely NO chance that it might lead to a compulsion to photograph EVERY. SINGLE. GRAVESTONE. I mean, AS. IF. [3/25] #AncestryHour
A few years ago I was contacted @FamilySearch about a common research interest – how was I related, the lady (Sheila) wanted to know? Well, my mum’s Auntie Liza had married a Henry Hunter & that’s where the connection lay #AncestryHour 1/5
Sheila was descended from the Hunters & had recently arranged for a headstone in a Glasgow cemetery as her mother was buried there. Also interred in that plot was a Margaret Paul. What relation was she to me? Sheila wanted to know #AncestryHour 2/5
I explained she was my ggmother, Auntie Liza’s mum. “Hopefully you’ll be pleased” Sheila said, “I included her name on the stone” and she sent me a photo of it #AncestryHour 3/5
I often talk about using the #WikiTree website to record my #FamilyHistory research. Here’s a thread for #AncestryHour with some reasons why I ❤️ @WikiTreers. [1/17]
I’ve spent hours researching my #FamilyHistory, but don’t have anyone to leave it too. #WikiTree provides a place to record information for others to read and critique (now and in the future). #AncestryHour [2/17]
I won’t be around for ever, so I need somewhere that my #FamilyHistory research will survive long after I’ve gone. #WikiTree provides that. It’s free, so no need to worry about subscription fees when I’m not around to pay them. #AncestryHour [3/17]
I often talk about using the #WikiTree website to record my #FamilyHistory research. Here’s a thread for #AncestryHour with some reasons why I ❤️ @WikiTreers. [1/17]
I’ve spent hours researching my #FamilyHistory, but don’t have anyone to leave it too. #WikiTree provides a place to record information for others to read and critique (now and in the future). #AncestryHour [2/17]
I won’t be around for ever, so I need somewhere that my #FamilyHistory research will survive long after I’ve gone. #WikiTree provides that. It’s free, so no need to worry about subscription fees when I’m not around to pay them. #AncestryHour [3/17]
Does your Twitter biography explain what you Tweet about? You’ve only got 160 characters to capture people’s interest. Why not check your bio now? Tell us about the changes you’ve made using the #AncestryHour tag.
Of course, the problem with scheduling Tweets in advance is that you need to be able to tell the difference between - eg - 16:55 and 18:55 hrs. Oh well, it’s gone now, so looking forward to your replies.
Doing a quick test to see what happens if I say "@threadreaderapp unroll." I might want to use this handy feature for something else next week.
Two good surprises this week!
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1. I was contacted by a lady who inherited a big pile of letters from ~1889, sent to her ancestor by a teenager friend from Paris. This friend often mentions her neighbor friends in her letters: my ggfather A. Dreyfus and his family.
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1. I was contacted by a lady who inherited a big pile of letters from ~1889, sent to her ancestor by a teenager friend from Paris. This friend often mentions her neighbor friends in her letters: my ggfather A. Dreyfus and his family.
2. My mom found ~50 letters from 1870-1871, sent from Paris to my ancestor Adolphe GrĂĽnberg as he was away with his family during the siege of the city by the Prussians. I only saw 3 letters so far, but it's very promising content!
There are in particular some letters about the children organizing theater plays and operas, with some fun scenes.
1841 Scotland Census — Is a *photograph* of the instructions to enumerators of the 1841 census on-line? Helpfully there is a transcription at sites.rootsweb.com/~sctfc/enum-in…, but I would like to see a copy of an actual document and can’t find one. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #AncestryHour.
By the way, I’ve tried the sites for @ScotlandsPeople, @FamilySearch and @NatRecordsScot, but can’t find a digital image.
Thanks to a fantastic message from Emma at @scottishindexes, I think I’ve got all the information I need for my current research. Lovely to see what the householders’ and enumerators’ schedules from 1841 actually looked like. Thanks, Emma :-)
Until 1929 women in Scotland could marry as young as 12 yrs old, but rarely ever did (nrscotland.gov.uk/registration/g…). Anyone know a *reliable* source for average age that women actually did marry in Scotland in 18th & 19th centuries, pls? Am struggling to find one. #AncestryHour
Thinking about it, I've got a massive Scottish family tree which would help work out ages at marriage, if only I could extract the data from a gedcom into a spreadsheet to do the analysis. #AnecstryHour
I have a partial answer to my question from my own family tree, showing age at marriage of people mostly from Ross-shire, Banffshire & Aberdeenshire. The software doesn’t have options to cleanse data (eg. remove marriages outside scotland, or those where birth year is estimated).
So @DavidDobie2 found this fascinating advert for a roup (Scots for auction) of leases in North-East Scotland, mostly in Botriphnie, where many of his ancestors come from. #AncestryHour /1
He asked the right question - why were all these leases being auctioned at the same time? #AncestryHour /2
The obvious answer was some form of "improvement", possibly even a clearance. But how to prove if that was the case? #AncestryHour /3
Dear #AncestryHour friends, I have so many questions. This I found some years ago in my grandmother's possessions. It's made of postage stamps. Finally today I have tried to find out more about it. 1/
On the mount in pencil is written "Doram Sibley, St Just, Penwith, Cornwall". You're going to have to take my word for that because I've only photographed this with my phone so far and it's behind glass. 2/
On the back is written "Fore Street, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall" then "Composed in Postage Stamps by Doram Sibley 1935 (Under the patronage of HM the Queen). 3/
I missed #ancestryhour yesterday as I was busy breaking a wall I've had for months. Thanks to a generous researcher who went through 700+ pages of census to help me find a family, I have now been able to put names on the people in these family pictures.
Here they are: geni.com/people/L%C3%A9…
Better yet, I now know that LĂ©onie Baranger was my great-grand-mother's (who appears on the first picture) cousin (1C1R actually), hence the reason I have this pic.
Next step: find descendants to send them the pictures!
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Better yet, I now know that LĂ©onie Baranger was my great-grand-mother's (who appears on the first picture) cousin (1C1R actually), hence the reason I have this pic.
Next step: find descendants to send them the pictures!
#ancestryhour
Researching my gt grandfather’s illegitimate son, John Murdoch or Cameron (d.1887, aged 16 days). Last night I found the child’s birth record, which gives his mother’s usual domicile. Now tracking her down on the census. #AncestryHour. John’s biography at wikitree.com/wiki/Cameron-9….
You know when you have got genealogy badly when tracking-down the mother of an illigitimate great uncle makes you late for the office... #AncestryHour
However, this research has left more questions. Why does a girl from the Scottish Highlands end-up as a pregnant domestic servant in rural Aberdeenshire and give birth in the city of Aberdeen? And what happens to her after her poor child dies?
On the 16th of January 1799, in Ligny-le-Ribault (Loire Valley, near Chambord), in the wake of the French revolution, my ancestor Marguerite Pinson gave birth to her first born son, François Pinson. No father was declared. #AncestryHour #mystery
At that time, Marguerite's older sister Marie Françoise Pinson was married to Firmin Moreau. However, after giving birth to two boys, Marie Françoise died in 1803. Firmin stayed at the Pinson farm and started living with Marguerite. #AncestryHour
In the 10 years that followed, Firmin and Marguerite had 6 children, all recognized by their father, even though they were not married (something I've never seen anywhere else at that time in my family). Yet François remained without a recognized father. #AncestryHour
My 3rd-grandfather Avigdor (or Victor) Grünberg was born in Mezritch, Poland, on 1802-12-10. This is very likely Veliky Mezhyrichi, a village in modern-day Ukraine, known for the its role in the spread of Hasidic Judaism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velyki_Me… #AncestryHour
Victor moved to Brody, Austria (nowaday Ukraine). His father Aaron and his mother stayed in Mezritch, and it seems they lived in poverty according to Victor's testament. In 1821, Victor married in Brody with Mirel (or Maria) Schorr, daugther of Schachne Schorr. #AncestryHour
Victor and Maria had at least 4 children: Jochwed (maybe the same as Debora/Dorothea?), Jacub, Able/Abraham (or Adolf) and Ahron (or Arnold). In the end of the 1840s, Victor moved with his son Adolf GrĂĽnberg to Paris, where they settled as merchants. #AncestryHour
Tonight for #ancestryhour, let me tell you about my fourth great-uncle, Léopold Wertheim. Born Löb Wertheimer, he was born on the 13th of October 1808 in Fürth, Bavaria. His father Isaac Joseph Wertheimer was a glass maker and probably worked with the mirror factory. 1/10
LĂ©opold's mother, Elisabeth Baruch (or Horschitz in some documents) gave birth to 12 more siblings: Frummet, Cecilia (my 3rd great-grandmother), Ernst, Salomon, Esther, GĂĽtel, Wolf, Hirsch, Sulamith, Gnendel, Franziska and Karoline. 2/10
Léopold studies medicine at the faculty of Munich, and finds interest in Preissnitz' hydrotherapy. He migrates to France in the end of the 1830s and requests the authorization to practice medicine there books.google.ch/books?id=iANTA… 3/10
#AncestryHour paying a tribute to a great-great-great-uncle, Samuel LĂ©on.
I'm currently writing a book about the GrĂĽnberg family (Ashkenazi family). My great-grandfather the engineer LĂ©on Grunberg participated in the Boer War, along with his friend and associate Samuel LĂ©on. 1/n
I'm currently writing a book about the GrĂĽnberg family (Ashkenazi family). My great-grandfather the engineer LĂ©on Grunberg participated in the Boer War, along with his friend and associate Samuel LĂ©on. 1/n
In South Africa, Sam Léon worked closely with French Colonel de Villebois-Mareuil, who was there as a volunteer on the Boer side. Villebois-Mareuil was known at the time as a veteran of the 1871 franco-prussian war, as well as one of the founders of the "Action Française", 2/n
a French royalist and antisemitic association, created during the Dreyfus Affair in 1894.
Villebois-Mareuil & Sam LĂ©on spent a lot of time together in 1900 as Sam LĂ©on accompanied the troops to take care of the Long Tom, a canon he and LĂ©on Grunberg had brought from France
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Villebois-Mareuil & Sam LĂ©on spent a lot of time together in 1900 as Sam LĂ©on accompanied the troops to take care of the Long Tom, a canon he and LĂ©on Grunberg had brought from France
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