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May 25, 2024

The GenStack - Saturday Round-Up of Family History Substack Posts for the Week.

I share the Family History Community’s posts that landed in my inbox this week. When there is more than one post during the week from the same Substack Newsletter, I only post one, so make sure and browse their posts.

Thank you to all the Substack Authors who are making a difference in the Family History Community on Substack. If you have a Family History Newsletter that I am missing from my inbox, please let me know! I’m always looking for new reads.

GenStack is now a Newsletter Post

You may have noticed that GenStack is now on a post, rather than a Note. Sending out a post made more sense. It will come right to your inbox and be easier to find if you want to go back to previous posts. It also works much better visually.

This week’s GenStack Posts are from:

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Rainey Mitchell (L.E.E)

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Temple’s Substack

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Chronicle Makers

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One Continuous Branch

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Projectkin Ringleader

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Mightier Acorns

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A Civil Rights Power Couple

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KateMotleyStories

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Dr. Mary Marshall

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The Centenarian Playbook

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Stories from the Tree

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The Juvenile Geriatric

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Yesterday Genealogy Newsletter!

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William Larry’s Substack

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My Tree Family History

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As always, the Genealogy Matters newsletter comes out every Sunday.

genealogymatters.substack.com

This Week’s GenStack

Discover Your WWII Hero's Story Today

We are weeks away from the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion. Are you researching and writing the stories of your veterans? Need some help getting started? I have many books to help! View more than 20 of my books at the Ancestral Souls Wisdom School…

a year ago · 2 likes · Jennifer Holik

Rainey Mitchell’s Gallery

If We Build It, They Will Come: Berwind Park (Part 1)

a year ago · 1 like · Rainey Mitchell (L.E.E)

Temple’s Substack

Activity 36: Family Trivia Game

Activity: Create a family trivia game to be played at FHE or family reunion Approx. Time Required: Preparation 1 hour +/-, Game 15-30 minutes. Purpose: To learn fun facts/trivia about immediate or extended family Preparation: Gathering of fun facts/trivia about family members…

a year ago · Temple and Family History

Chronicle Makers

How to Show and Not Just Tell About Your Ancestors

One of the big reasons I’m moving away from “Professional Genealogy”, is the enforced scholarly writing style. It’s dull and unfulfilling for me to read, and similarly dull and unfulfilling for me to write. My desire is to write engaging stories of my ancestors that my family can not put down. These stories published in books become treasured family heir…

a year ago · 6 likes · 9 comments · Denyse Allen

One Continuous Branch

My father, Brian Joseph Hill, Corning NY, early 1950s My first memory of my father was when I was probably two years old, when we were living in Kentucky. My father and I are in a bed, and I’m burrowing under the covers, playing. When I come out, both of us in pajamas, my mother is standing at the foot of the bed, and she has a camera. She takes a photograph of my father and me…

a year ago · 2 likes · Sean Patrick Hill

Projectkin Community Forum

Happy Birthday, Projectkin 🎂

As some of you will know, the Projectkin community was born as the Ponga platform was withdrawn from the market on May 22nd, 2023. The software gave family historians an innovative way to organize and add stories to old photos. Though beloved, it wasn’t enough to break through with the resources we had. As co-founders, we took the platform offline while…

a year ago · 18 likes · 19 comments · Barbara Tien

Mightier Acorns

Family Reunion: Jensen

This surname can be found among my wife’s Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find the first Jensen - the maternal grandmother of my wife’s maternal grandmother. Lena Marie Dagmar Jensen - 10 Sep 1874 - 04 Jan 1952 Lena was born in Chicago to Danish immigrants…

a year ago · 2 likes · Mightier Acorns

My Grandmother's Life of Service

Last month’s paid post was a mini-biography of my grandmother. I mentioned in her story that she did a lot of volunteer work when she lived in New York City. While going through my late aunt’s stash of photos and newspaper clippings last year, I found quite a bit involving this side of my grandmother’s life. So this month’s behind the paywall will be the available photos, news clippings, and my remembrances of my grandmother’s life of service. She was enthusiastic about her community and her country, working towards a better world for everyone - especially those who couldn’t rally for themselves, the children…

a year ago · Alicia M Prater

A Civil Rights Power Couple

January 17, 1944: My Grandfather Writes to "Everyone" About Army Life from Monroe, Louisiana

a year ago · 2 likes · Chandra Hardy

Lost sock memories

If you are reading this in the hope that I can help you prevent the annoying problem of lost socks, I am afraid you are out of luck. Though this YouTube video shines a new light on the courage of the lost sock. Instead, I was interested in the concept of…

a year ago · 15 likes · 12 comments · KateMotleyStories

Dr. Mary Marshall's Collection

The narrative on death in family history is important to understanding one’s life and their place in family history. My first encounter with death came when my grandmother transitioned May 21, 1972. Though her death was not a surprise, it did leave me unsettled and feeling life would never be the same. Shock embraced me, leaving a gaping hole in my understanding of what this thing called LIFE really is…

a year ago · Dr. Mary Marshall

The Centenarian Playbook

A Century in Motion: Grandma Kay's Walking Ritual

👋 Hello, I’m Kevin Ferguson, author of 🍷 Rain on the Monte Bello Ridge,🍷 my forthcoming memoir about health, aging and winemaking. (Read the book’s origin story.) 🍇 The Centenarian Playbook is my newsletter, which features longevity tips and stories from Grandma Kay’s long life. It also includes stories of the Gemello Winery, which her late husband…

a year ago · 14 likes · 13 comments · Kevin Ferguson

The GenealCymru Newsletter

Top 5 Websites for Genealogy

Hey everyone! Today’s video covers my top 5 picks for best genealogy websites. They are all free resources that I use almost daily that I think anyone with Welsh or English ancestors, especially, would benefit from. And if your ancestors are from elsewhere, there will be analogous online resources for the places they lived…

a year ago · GenealCymru

Stories from the Tree

Burdens of Honor

Eddie Conlin was born with a smile and an adoring disposition, always wanting to help others. In 8th grade, when his parents divorced, he dropped out of school to help support his mother and younger siblings. In 1942, after turning 18, he registered for the draft and though many of the young men from the neighborhood were called, Eddie never was. He cho…

a year ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · Kirsi Dahl

The Juvenile Geriatric

A Family Story Conversation Starter Kit

Hello friends, I’ve been busy working on Beginning, next week’s online family stories workshop. As well as that I’m preparing for my Let’s Talk event at the Bathurst Writers’ and Readers’ festival this weekend. I went to university in this beautiful regional city and I also performed…

a year ago · 10 likes · 9 comments · Jane Hutcheon

Yesterday Genealogy Newsletter!

Pungoteague, Virginia

The name “Pungoteague” was derived from the Native American term “Pungotekw,” which means Sand Fly River. It was the name used by the earliest inhabitants. The little town still enjoys the same name and had 346 residents in 2020. "A Community Gone: The Eastern Shore Natives…

a year ago · 1 like · Jeannette Austin

William Larry’s Substack

My apologies to all subscribers who have been patiently standing by since my last post in December. A reaction to my initial round of Parkinson’s medication knocked me out of action in January, and I am just now adjusting after slowly ramping back up toward a full dosage…

a year ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · William Larry Groves

My Tree Family History

The Missing Man Who Started It All

Where did Tadeusz go? I was in my teens when my mother told me she wished she had the answer. I remember she spoke of going to the Red Cross to see if she could find out where her beloved brother may have gone since their separation. I believe she did make enquiries, with no success…

a year ago · My Tree Family History

7. A Child's Gift

The lights are off. I’ve drawn the curtains with their pattern of little sailboats. And I’ve kissed the top of my son’s freshly shampooed, blond head at least five times. He has finished telling me about what happened to Thomas, the Tank Engine. I hope this will be an easy trip to the land of nod because I would like to have some time to myself. I am fo…

a year ago · 8 likes · 5 comments · Alice Goldbloom

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My Tree Family History

Thank you so much for the mention, Robin! I look forward to checking out the other Substacks you mention here as well!

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Barbara at Projectkin

These GenStacks are such a fabulous way to discover new members of the Family History and Genealogy community on Substack. Now, they're just essential. Gosh, @Robin Stewart, however do you do that. Well done 🎉 (I saved some 🍰 for you. 🥰)

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