To mark #BlackHistoryMonth in the US, I've shared some webinars and other free resources, focusing on African-American family research #AncestryHour #Genealogy buff.ly/4hmyqsk
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It's a public holiday here in Ireland but I've still got a fresh newsletter for you to read,
claires-newsletter-3b3509.beehiiv.com/p/changes-at... #IrishGenealogy #Genealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour #FamilyHistory #Speirgorm
claires-newsletter-3b3509.beehiiv.com
Changes at the NAI
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Greetings #AncestryHour friends! How's your #genealogy research going this week? I revisited Crista Cowan's video on Genealogy Source checklists and tweaked my earlier design so I could start on a review of some old research.
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Genealogy Source Checklists | Ancestry
YouTube video by Ancestry
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Feeling chuffed after a successful evening at my local history group, helping someone to break down genealogy brick walls. “My father was 1 of 10? I thought he was 1 of 8! You’ve helped me so much, I’m thrilled!” 😃 #GenHour #AncestryHour
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#genealogy Tips for BlueSky Newbies:
Use CamelCase for your hashtags: #AncestryHour #GenHour #GenChat #FamilyHistory
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space
So here's a REALLY simple thing to do that makes posts more accessible with barely any effort: If you use a hashtag made of multiple words (like #mathstoday) then capitalising the first letter of each word (e.g. #MathsToday) makes it easier for screenreader software to read it properly.
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#AncestryHour I do like to gripe about Ancestry, but sometimes they have useful stuff on the blog.
How many people miss out on finding arrival records because they don't think to look at ports outside of NYC?
www.ancestry.com/c/ancest….
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Exploring Baltimore Immigration Records
Learn more about your family's immigration experience through the port of Baltimore, Maryland, by searching the immigration records at Ancestry.
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Great news from @virtualtreasury.bsky.social & @briangurrin.bsky.social who have recovered 1821 census returns for 7000 people in Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim. #IrishGenealogy #GenHour #AncestryHour
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Bit late for #AncestryHour but: I found digitized Hampshire wills at Ancestry and excitedly researched them yesterday. Felt a bit familiar but I wasn't sure. I then reviewed my notes and found I had ordered paper copies and done the same research except perhaps more thoroughly back in 2016. Oh dear!
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#OTD my paternal grandparents, John STANLEY and Margaret “Margie” WEINER got married 82 years ago (ie in 1944). Happy anniversary to them! #AncestryHour
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I understand that for some, they would prefer to see no politics when it comes to genealogy. However, everything is political, including genealogy. It's okay if you wish to unfollow me. I won't be trying to pull the two apart as it's simply not possible. #genealogy #ancestryhour #genhour
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Looks like Irishgenealogy is loading on the new year of records. Indexes for the 3 new years are now up but the images aren't there yet. It surely won't be long now! (births for 1924, marriages for 1949 & 1974 deaths) #IrishGenealogy #GenHour #AncestryHour
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Update on NAI site: the genealogy collections have been restored!
nationalarchives.ie/colle…. #GenHour #AncestryHour
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#AncestryHour Thanks all for chatting! I'm off to play with FamilySearch's Full text search again. See you next time, or on Thursday for #GenHour.
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#AncestryHour Joe Beine's guide on US Ports of Entry (fun fact: land crossings are also called "ports")
www.genesearch.com/ports.html
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US Ports of Arrival and their Available Passenger Lists and Records
A list of many US immigration ports with links to their available passenger lists, indexes or finding aids. Includes Canada and Mexico border crossings.
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#AncestryHour I do like to gripe about Ancestry, but sometimes they have useful stuff on the blog.
How many people miss out on finding arrival records because they don't think to look at ports outside of NYC?
www.ancestry.com/c/ancest….
www.ancestry.com
Exploring Baltimore Immigration Records
Learn more about your family's immigration experience through the port of Baltimore, Maryland, by searching the immigration records at Ancestry.
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#AncestryHour A lovely photo! Thanks for sharing.
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#AncestryHour However, I spotted some record sets that I might want to search on Ancestry's page of recently updated collections, so ...
It is good to have multiple ways to do things.
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#OTD my paternal grandparents, John STANLEY and Margaret “Margie” WEINER got married 82 years ago (ie in 1944). Happy anniversary to them! #AncestryHour
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#AncestryHour Gripe of the day: why do web designers put a tab to leave Feedback about websites on the right-hand side of the page, so it's in the way of using the scroll bar to navigate?
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Thanks Jan! Thankfully I'm a pretty diligent backer upper so didn't lose a thing, just had to re download some genesligy software and remember some passwords 😅 #ancestryhour
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#AncestryHour The blog encourages us to bookmark their page of recently updated collections. I usually go to the Card Catalog instead and filter by Date Updated or Date Added because then you can use all the filters.
www.ancestry.com/cs/recen….
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Recently Added and Updated Collections on Ancestry
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#AncestryHour Also! In the top Navigation bar on the blog, the selection for "HIstory" has a typo!
Chris Jolliffe @cjolliffe.bsky.social
It’s also funny that the 1st record they show has been mis-transcribed.
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#AncestryHour Note that the Source Information has been buried at the bottom of the Record Page again where no one will see it, instead of being hidden on a tab where no one will see it. But somehow it's so important that we have the gunk from our tree to compare, without using a slide-out panel.
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#AncestryHour Yes! You'd think they'd have put in a corrected transcription before publishing this on the blog!
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