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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]
#WikiTree won’t last for ever, either, but they have a serious plan about preserving the records long-term: wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Prot…. #AncestryHour [4/17]
#WikiTree places great importance on citing sources. It’s helped me become a better genealogist as I want my research to stand-up to scrutiny: wikitree.com/wiki/Help:How_…. #AncestryHour [5/17]
#WikiTree’s "Honour Code" explains what’s expected of contributors and is a requirement on those who participate at a higher level on the tree: wikitree.com/wiki/Special:H…. #AncestryHour [6/17]
Forget sites that try to do the work for you, with hints or shaky leaves — they have their place — but #WikiTree is different: a free place to record your #FamilyHistory research to share with others. #AncestryHour [7/17]
A single world-wide tree sends shivers down the spines of some #genealogists, but I believe #WikiTree is more likely to attract family historians with some experience behind them. #AncestryHour [8/17]
Every change to every profile on #WikiTree is recorded and can be reviewed and reversed. You get an alert to any change made to a profile you set-up or adopt. #AncestryHour [9/17]
Here’s an example of a recent #WikiTree biography — one I produced about my great great grandfather, John Ligertwood Jr (1833–1925): wikitree.com/wiki/Ligertwoo…. #AncestryHour [10/17]
‘Free-space’ profiles on #WikiTree enable you to add all sorts of information which relates to people you are researching. I’ve used it to explain a group of farms associated with my ancestors: WikiTree.com/wiki/Space:Bro…. #AncestryHour [11/17]
#WikiTree even caters for #OneNameStudies — My (currently very small) #MoggachOneNameStudy now has a home there at wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Mog…. #AncestryHour [12/17]
There‘s a very active members’ forum on #WikiTree: wikitree.com/g2g/questions. It’s amazing to see how experienced users help others. There are even volunteer mentors: wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Cont…. #AncestryHour [13/17]
#WikiTree is on Twitter too, of course. You can follow their account at @WikiTreers. #AncestryHour [14/17]
Full disclosure: I ❤️ #WikiTree so much that I volunteer some time to be a member of their Ambassadors’ Project: wikitree.com/wiki/Project:A…. #AncestryHour [15/17]
Hope you have found this thread useful. If you have never heard of #WikiTree, here’s where to start: wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Abou…. #AncestryHour [16/17]
Maybe the Tweets weren’t quite in the right order, but now I’m done, let’s ask @threadreaderapp to unroll this thread, for those who’d prefer to read this as a web page. #AncestryHour [Ends]

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Jan 17, 2023
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 A self-photographed picture of David Dobie (@DavidDobie2) we
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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] Image
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]
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Aug 20, 2020
Reply from a @FindaGrave volunteer: “Not accurate - Their data conflicts with my data". OK, so the two contemporary newspaper reports about the deceased‘s fatal road accident giving the correct year of death that I sent ya not good enough, huh? findagrave.com/memorial/21448… Image
In the interests of providing visitors to his @FindaGrave page with the *correct* information about John Smith Shireffs (1900-1955), I've added a picture of the press cuttings with dates, which just happen to match his entry in the statutory Register of Deaths. Images: @BNArchive Image
There is a John Ellis F Sherriffs, who died in Forfar in 1949, but John Smith Shirreffs who died in the road accident at Stirling and was buried at the Campsie-Lennoxtown Cemetery died in 1955.
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Aug 3, 2020
Yesterday I posted official extracts of my birth and adoption records to @HighlandCouncil with the hope that the burial lairs of my birth mother, grandparents and great grandparents in #Gairloch’s New Cemetery can be assigned to me, the only living descendant. [1/3] Image
The graves concerned are the middle and right-hand ones in the photo above. I want to have the graves cleaned & the lettering re-done. When the time comes, I may join them there, as there is still space. [2/3]
More people to whom I am related are buried in this cemetery than anywhere else on earth, with more distant ancestors and relatives buried in the adjacent Old Burial Ground. [3/3] Image
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Feb 22, 2020
Researching a C19th branch of my direct line from New Pitsligo in Aberdeenshire, who seem to have been extremely poor souls. Quite a few premature deaths from communicable diseases (mostly TB + 1xtyphoid). Very different to most of my middling (and usually long-living) relatives.
None of my ancestors made it above the level of tenant farmer, apart from the ones who owned a small cargo ship, but is a rather sad to think about the hard-up lot in New Pitsligo. Impression is they seem to have been close, and looked after each other with what little they had.
Oh dear. Looking across the 1861, ‘71 & ‘81 censuses, one of my 3x gt aunts in New Pitsligo may have had 7 illegitimate children (all with different surnames) before she married a man 13 years her junior. That’s going to take some working out...
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Jan 30, 2020
Goodness, this is exciting! I know I have a 4th gt grandmother called Christian (Christina) Taylor née Mowat, but until now, that’s all I had. Think I’ve just found her. Now examining parish registers, valuation rolls & census records to see if the records show it’s really her.
So, *if* I have found Christian, my 4th gt grandmother, she lived a long life as a widow, knitting stockings for a living until goimg blind. I’d also know who my 5th gt grandparents are on that line. The *circumstantial* evidence is good, but not enough to be confident, yet.
More circumstantial evidence that Christian Mowat (c.1778-1865) is my 4x gr grandmother. Have now found a promising older sibling of my 3x gt grandmother, born in the same parish. An older sister to them both is a bit erratic over her age and place of birth on census.
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