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. 2. My mom found ~50 letters from 1870-1871, sent from Paris to my ancestor Adolphe Grünberg 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!

🧵 What are some genealogy mysteries you're hoping to solve this year? 🧵 1. I'm hoping to find out what really happened with the Fort Daspoortrand plans in Pretoria during the Boer War in 1900.

When Felix Zottier was found with plans of this fort in his home, he claimed to be the original designer and accused Leon Grunberg of copying his work...

What are the 7 OSI layers?

Wrong answers only. Economy
Business
Corporate
Agile
DevOps
SRE
GitOps

About to unleash the ultimate #lockdown weapon Some good progress already!

Warm up has started for 🇨🇦 v 🇩🇰 🏒 at #Lausanne2020 Pretty tough times for Denmark so far

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 Léonie 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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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

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

As a genealogist, I found #StarTrek DS9 episode "Dax" very interesting. It deals with Jadzia Dax, who is a Trill, a person comprised of two creatures joints: a host (Jadzia) and a guest (Dax). Jadzia Dax is being accused of a murder commited by her previous host, Curzon Dax. The whole episode debates whether Jadzia Dax, the new host, can be held responsible of the acts of Curzon Dax. Same guest creature, different host. I find it very interesting that the "surname" used is that of the short-lived host, while the "family" name is long-lived Trill's.

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 Léopold's mother, Elisabeth Baruch (or Horschitz in some documents) gave birth to 12 more siblings: Frummet, Cecilia (my 3rd great-grandmother), Ernst, Salomon, Esther, Gütel, Wolf, Hirsch, Sulamith, Gnendel, Franziska and Karoline. 2/10

#AncestryHour paying a tribute to a great-great-great-uncle, Samuel Léon.

I'm currently writing a book about the Grünberg family (Ashkenazi family). My great-grandfather the engineer Léon Grunberg participated in the Boer War, along with his friend and associate Samuel Léon. 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

Last week, I went to the pharmacy and asked for Magnesium as I'm having a low and a twiching eye. I was given Schüssler Salts (Magnesium Phosphoricum). Not knowing what it was, I took it and went home. I then searched online for posology as there was nothing on the box and learned it was minerals prepared with homeopathic methods. The box being 6D, it means the Magnesium was diluted 6 times in 10 times its volume of water, i.e. a million times in total.

@ovh_support_fr bonjour, j'essaie de joindre @ovh @hubic au sujet d'une facture Hubic que j'ai reçu. Est-ce à vous qu'il faut s'adresser? @olesovhcom @olesovhnet une idée? Ça fait plus de 2 semaines que j'essaie de contacter OVH…

J'ai reçu une facture de renouvellement @hubic alors que la fin du service a été annoncée il y a presque un an. Quel est le status @OVH ? @OVHcloud peut-être?