With yet more restrictions being imposed on how you can use Twitter, here are two ways you can still keep up to date with the #Genealogy community on Twitter.
A thread...
The first way (and this is not intended to be self-promotion) is my Twitter community. All sorts of genealogy blog posts, and dilemmas are here. I will work on bringing discussions into this as well. To join, go here: twitter.com/i/communities/…
Way number two (and the majority of this thread) will be using Twitter lists. They are not my favourite, but with the feeds being loopy - this might be the primary way I see things now.
To find the lists feature, if you're on your PC, see picture one, phone - picture two.
(The method is the same on the phone and PC versions.)
1/ When you're on the lists page, click the button at the top right to create a list, give it a name, and a description and then create.
It is up to you whether you would like to make the list private.
2/ Then add who you want to, then hit done.
Then, what I'd recommend doing is pinning your lists. This will allow you to see them in your timeline like so. You can easily alternate between them as you like.
3/ To do this, scroll down to the list you just made and click the pin button.
There is a limit as you can only have 5 lists pinned at any one time.
There are some limits however, you can not have more than 5,000 accounts in one list and you can not have any more than 1,000 lists on any one account (although, I'm not sure if anyone would need that many!)
Here are some suggestions in terms of list ideas you could use.
1. Following - a list of ALL accounts you follow.
2. Regulars - those who you do not want to miss anything from.
3. [Interest name] - have an interest in a certain area? Add accounts that interest you.
I hope this will be of use to some people but it's probably the best way of keeping connected on here. The lists feature might not be for everyone but it's worth having a go anyway!
[Also, if you-know-who bins this feature as well, I don't know of any other alternatives!]
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Good suggestion from @onthrshoulders, might be a good idea to make your lists private...
• A poem from Katherine Zappone was apparently the driving force behind the Government investigating mother and baby homes (according to Leo Varadkar).
• The Seanad voted to not include 10 additional institutions in the research scope of the COI...
...which would've meant that institutions like Temple Hill (where my mum's half-sister was adopted from) and St. Clare's, Stamullen (where my mum was adopted from)
• The apparent win of giving adoptees unredacted basic information in *2022*, which has gone badly as...
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...adoptees are still getting redactions on their information. Mum's still has redactions.
• Ex-Taoiseach Micheál Martin reflects that the State should've bought Bessborough, despite him once having the ability to do it.
• Still trying to find the Bessborough Missing.
At the beginning of her life, my mother was born in a mother & baby home with the third highest death rate in Ireland.
At 15 days old, my mother was sent in a taxi to an adoption home halfway up the country with her mother.
Her mother would visit her a few times by...
...working and earning money to buy stuff and visit her a few times before she could no longer bring herself to do it.
At 54 days old, my mum was put with her family who'd later adopt her.
She was raised in a family that always supported her to find her birth family.
At 25, my mum married my father - a detail the religious order who ran Bessborough, (a place she only spent two weeks of her life at) would note down on her file, despite no clear reason for how it got there.
[There was no marriage notice and Mum didn't know her original name]
I'm am giving (and continue) to give my all into @Project_Infant to turn it into a beacon for people wanting to:
a) learn more about the homes and their backstory
b) learn more about those who died
But recently I've felt vexed. Which is why I'm adding another small thing to NLB.
For those who aren't adopted, we are lucky as we can easily trace our family back to goodness knows when, you have to admit that.
But I want to use my skills to help those adopted through mother and baby homes, I want to help them trace their birth families.
So, if you were born in a mother and baby home and would like help finding your birth ancestral roots, I'd love to help. I don't charge whatsoever for this research. This is my way of giving back and helping survivors find who their ancestors are.
Hey #Genealogy Twitter, don't scroll past this yet!
So as time progresses, I've seen people wondering if Twitter does go down in a ball of fire or people leave, where to go?
One of these suggestions was Mastodon.
While it's been described as not an alternative to Twitter, it's very similar to how it operates. You can respond, boost (retweet) and favourite (like) tweets and even see all the hustle and bustle of Twitter.
There are also some improvements to Mastodon that aren't on Twitter.
One of these things is the character count in a post. You can have 500 characters in a post on M compared to 280 characters on T. Another thing is there are no ads or algorithm-suggested/popular tweets, who you follow is all that will appear in your timeline unless...
This tweet had gained a bit of traction, some people were sympathetic with Simon that this has happened (and especially in this way) and the BILE that others quote tweeted Simon’s tweet with is horrendous.
Guess any sort of human interaction has just gone out the window then?
But if there’s one thing that @SBkcrn has done is create and develop a wonderful feature for Twitter for its diverse communities to interact with one another.
And for that I’m grateful to him for allowing me access to the feature and create the Genealogy Twitter community.
And I shall! Second tech tip of the day, who would’ve thought it! So #genealogy folks who have either an iPhone or iPad, this is for you. (Android folks, stay tuned - I may have a similar way)
Firstly, what you’ll want to do is open up TweetDeck on Safari on your device (it has to be Safari, from what I’ve tried) and make sure you sign into your account. Once you’ve done that, and your TweetDeck has appeared. Hit the share button (box with an up arrow - as shown)
Once you’ve done that, scroll down the options and select “Add to Home Screen”.