February 15, 2025

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Feb 15, 2025

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GenStack Featured:
Lisa Maguire

Stacked this Week (26 Stacked)

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GenStack Featured

Each week, GenStack features content that is recommended for anyone interested in genealogy and family history. This week, we get to know Lisa Maguire’s Ancestory. Her key themes and approach are both fascinating and unique.

Ancestory

Your family has a story. ~ Lisa Maguire

Lisa Maguire

Lisa Maguire's Substack newsletter, Ancestory, explores family history within a broader historical context, using specific stories to illuminate the past. Lisa skillfully weaves together personal narratives and historical events, offering readers a unique perspective on the lives of her ancestors and the world they inhabited.

She explores Irish-Canadian history through personal narratives. Lisa examines immigrant life, urban dynamics, and cultural identity, using family stories to illuminate broader historical events. She delves into social and economic forces impacting her ancestors, from Quebec's timber trade to Montreal's industrialization. Maguire reflects on memory and storytelling, demonstrating how personal recollections intertwine with history across generations. A key theme is "Moving Day" in Montreal and its historical origins, connecting it to family mobility and urban change.

Maguire's writing is characterized by meticulous research, attention to detail, and a personal voice that invites readers to connect with her family's history and reflect on their own. By interweaving personal narratives and historical context, she makes the past come alive and demonstrates its enduring relevance to the present.

ancestory

Moving Day

One of my favorite sources for genealogical research is old city directories. Directories have told me so much about my family— where they lived, worked, and worshipped, and the people they lived alongside. I can dig into the urban history of the neighbor…

5 days ago · 20 likes · 7 comments · Lisa Maguire

Ancestory Posts
Outremont 1940: The Great Chain of Memory
In a nursing home not far from Richmond, Virginia, there is a ninety-six year old retired chemical engineer named Harrison Ruffin Tyler. He is the grandson of President John Tyler (1841-1845).
Diamond Harbor 1877: Lost Anchors
Quebec City was once an Irish town. Not majority Irish, but an Irish town nonetheless. Long ago the wealth of Quebec City lay in the port and the shipyards of the Lower Town, and its economic lifeblood flowed through the hands of the Irish who lived in its the coves and wharves.
Montreal 1894: Cast Metal Type — A story of two brothers
1864 John and Catherine Maguire sell their shop and pub in Omagh, County Tyrone. It’s all for sale— the inventory, counters, gas fittings, lease, and license. They are going to try their luck in America.

Paul Chiddicks

Mightier Acorns

Lori Olson White

Barbara at Projectkin

Emma - Journeys into Genealogy

David Shaw

Helene @ Letters…

Kirsi Dahl

Diane the FH Bowerbird

Projectkin Community Forum

Howard & Elvira: Love and the German Chocolate Cake

Lori Olson White, known in our community for her incredible publications, The Lost & Found Story Box and Culinary History is Family History, prepared for us today a fantastic film to tell her family story about Howard & Elvira and their love expressed in the form of a cake. After 60 years, the story took a twist that made it more memorable. You recognize from classics like O’Henry’s…

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5 days ago · 8 likes · 15 comments · Barbara at Projectkin and Lori Olson White

Ollie - if Only i

1981 Rolling Down 200 Foot Cliff At Night

ifOnlyi…wasn’t stupidly sitting on the very edge of the cliff with feet hanging over and had less to drink, maybe I would…

5 days ago · 2 likes · 2 comments · Ollie - if Only i

Letters from a Psychotherapist

Scars? What Scars? (in Our Family Trees)

The Appeal and Challenge of Family History…

5 days ago · 4 likes · j.e. moyer, LPC

Letters from LaBelle

Half-orphaned and “Boarded out”

One of the unexpected bonuses I’ve encountered in researching family history is making connections with unknown distant relatives. Since starting this project I have been able to make connections with distant cousins in three of the four main lines of my mother’s family (Hinkson, Northcutt & Cook) that have yielded lots of new insights and research lead…

8 days ago · 4 likes · 4 comments · Helene @ Letters…

The Lost & Found Story Box

Old Maids, Oilfields and a German chocolate cake

On Thursday, February 13, I’ll be joining Barbara Tien over at Projectkin for a presentation titled, Howard and Elvira: Love and the German Chocolate Cake . In doing the research for the project from which that presentation grew, I came across a lot of wonderful stories having to do with German Chocolate Cake, including this one about a Texas lady named…

7 days ago · 15 likes · 16 comments · Lori Olson White

Projectkin Community Forum

The Easy Chair Ride Along for us at RootsTech 2025

RootsTech is an extraordinary conference by any measure. Hosted annually by FamilySearch.org, it brings together of roughly 4 million members of the genealogy and family history community from around the globe. I participated in the 2020 show as a vendor. It was an …

7 days ago · 8 likes · 14 comments · Barbara at Projectkin

Serengenity

The 1864 battle of Pilot Knob, I was there.

A Game of Historical Telephone, The Great Chain of Testimony…

7 days ago · 8 likes · 2 comments · David Shaw

Ollie - if Only i

First Day Off To College + Huge Surprise

ifOnlyi… knew, Tom Landry's Cowboys held summer camp in Thousand Oaks at California Lutheran College (Cal Lu) from 1963-1989. I would’ve gone much sooner…

7 days ago · 1 like · Ollie - if Only i

Tracking Down The Family

Letters to Bedfordshire #3 - May 1863

Thomas Waters was my great great grandfather. He was born on 05 October 1829, at the family farm, ‘Newtonbury’ Dunton, Bedfordshire, England. He died on 28 June 1913 at Rochester, Victoria, Australia…

7 days ago · 6 likes · 3 comments · Jennifer Jones

Stories from the Tree

A Place at the Table

My mom, Katie Corbo Petrasek, had nearly every piece of one of the original Pfaltzgraff “Yorktown” stone dishware patterns. I remember her paging through the catalog and carefully earmarking the next piece she’d buy. It was a contagious behavior, for it wasn’t long before my aunt was doing the same, and they gifted each other various vegetable bowls, bu…

8 days ago · 16 likes · 20 comments · Kirsi Dahl

Mightier Acorns

A Needle In a Needle Stack

Depending on your sources and time frame, the surname “Jones” is about the 5th most common surname in the United States. The same can be said for “David” when you look at first names for males…

6 days ago · 5 likes · Mightier Acorns

GenTales

The Branch Families of 18th Century Preston, Connecticut

Another cousin line, another surname…

6 days ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · Alicia M Prater

ancestory

Moving Day

5 days ago · 18 likes · 5 comments · Lisa Maguire

Stories With Shell

Cherished Keepsakes

Moving houses a few times in the last twelve years provided opportunities to purge some junk I had been saving since the ‘80s. I’m not a hoarder by any means, but I never was as organized as I’d like to be, so finding old fabric scraps from when I tried my hand at calico blankets tossed in a box up in the rafters of the garage was no surprise. I could p…

8 days ago · 26 likes · 23 comments · Shell Norman

Mightier Acorns

Collecting Some Acorns

Cousins, I have resisted taking this step, but after considering recent events, I must turn on the donation button. If that’s all you need to hear, then bless you—here’s a button…

8 days ago · 7 likes · 7 comments · Mightier Acorns

Emma’s Substack

Relatives at Rootstech

I signed up for Relatives at Rootstech and I’ve already connected with a fourth cousin in California. She and some of her relatives are in my DNA matches so I recognised her name. I had around 48 relatives when I looked a couple of days ago and it has already gone up to 75. At the time of writing this there are over 45,600 people who have signed up…

8 days ago · 13 likes · 2 comments · Emma - Journeys into Genealogy

Projectkin Community Forum

A Brief Chat in the Livestream with Lori Olson White @Hometownwriter

Thank you Lori Olson White, Lynda Heines, Shell Norman, Tyler Loiselle, and so many others for tuning into my live video with Lori Olson White! Join me for my next live video in the app — OR now in your web browser…

Listen now

8 days ago · 11 likes · 6 comments · Barbara at Projectkin and Lori Olson White

Ollie - if Only i

Dating THREE Desiree's

ifOnlyi… had just dated two Desirees and not the third, I believe my life would’ve turned out much different…

9 days ago · 4 likes · Ollie - if Only i

Jenny’s Scrapbook of Family History Stories

A Journey Through Two Soldiers' Letters from WWI

This week's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" prompt, "Letters and Diaries," couldn't have come at a more perfect moment. As I've been diving into my family's WWI history, I've had the privilege of reading two sets of wartime letters that bring our past to life…

9 days ago · 6 likes · 7 comments · JenealogyScrapbook

Tracking Down The Family

Sunday Snippets

One of my highlights this week was to attend a talk by Dr. Perry McIntyre AM, Fellow of the Society of Australian Genealogists. The talk was titled “In Good Health & Fit to Undergo the Voyage.” The topic was about the young girls who came to Australia between 1848 and 1850, as part of the Earl Grey Scheme. Perry is well known as an expert on the subj…

9 days ago · 9 likes · 1 comment · Jennifer Jones

Mightier Acorns

The Huffs Move West. Twice.

Albert C Huff (1854-1936) was the son of Lewis Huff and Catherine Stroud, born on 11 Apr 1854 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio. He grew up in Hancock County, but by 1875, his rather large family had moved nearly 800 miles southwest to Elsmore Township, Allen County, Kansas…

4 days ago · 6 likes · Mightier Acorns

Paul Chiddicks

Touching History

History is All Around Us…

4 days ago · 7 likes · 5 comments · Paul Chiddicks

Culinary History is Family History

A family love story that tastes like chocolate

I grew up knowing a family story by heart. It was about my grandparents, Howard Semerau and Elvira Stelljes, and a German chocolate cake, and for a long while, I thought it was a story about a recipe…

4 days ago · 6 likes · Lori Olson White

Chronicle Makers

How to Connect to Your Family History Using the Relatives at RootsTech App

A simple 3-step guide to finding cousins and family history treasures at the RootsTech conference, March 6-8…

4 days ago · 4 likes · 2 comments · Denyse Allen

Family History Bowerbird

My Sixteen – John William Giles – Part 3

In Part 1 and Part 2, we were introduced John William Giles and his wife, Elizabeth Foreman, who lived in Sofala, central New South Wales, during the 1850s and ran a hotel. Their son, Larkin Foreman Giles, was born on 8 September 1862 but John William Giles may have already left Sofala by then. DNA may answer the question of whether John William Giles w…

8 days ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · Diane the FH Bowerbird

Journeys into Genealogy

John Rocque map with Matt Brown

I recently interviewed Matt Brown of Londonist (full interview available from journeysintogenealogy.co.uk and links below this section) and we did this additional interview for my Substack subscribers on the John Rocque map of London in 1746…

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6 days ago · 3 likes · Emma - Journeys into Genealogy

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KateMotleyStories

Many thanks for the mention. As usual, a great selection of articles, thank you for all the work you have done to pull it together. I love the expression “the great chain of memory”.

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February 15, 2025

If you are a family historian who appreciates quality content from other family historians who are committed to genealogy and love it just as much as you do, you have arrived at just in time for this week’s Saturday Roundup!

How can you support these amazing Family Historian Community Authors and Content Creators?

—ReStack, Comment, Recommend, and Like their publications.

How can you get their posts right when they are published?

—Subscribe directly to their Newsletters.

DM me! I’m always looking for new publications to add to GenStack.

Stacked Between the Leaves

Here is what you will find in this week’s GenStack

GenStack Featured: Lisa Maguire

Stacked this Week (26 Stacked)

Video Presentations (5 Stacked)

Podcast (4 Stacked)

Coming Events (7 Stacked)

GenStack Coterie ( 2 Openings)

Additional This Week (32 Stacked)

GenStack Featured

Ancestory

Ancestory Posts

Did you know?

Watch for Barbara at Projectkin on Mondays with Myrt!

Now a member on Substack: DearMYRTLE

Are you a genealogy and family history content creator? Are you looking for a way to:

GenStack Coterie has (2) Openings right now.

Find out More about the GenStack Coterie

Pierre Roquemore, Jeanne Seguin, and their Journey to America South Carolina Genealogy Leslie Rigsby

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GenStack Featured:
Lisa Maguire

Watch for
Barbara at Projectkin
on Mondays with Myrt!

Now a member on Substack:
DearMYRTLE

Pierre Roquemore, Jeanne Seguin, and their Journey to America
South Carolina Genealogy
Leslie Rigsby