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December 7, 2024
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Between the Leaves
Here is what you will find in this week’s GenStack
GenStack Featured with Robin Stewart
Stacked this Week
Video Presentations
Podcasts
Ancestor Digest
Coming Events
GenStack News
Additional Stacks
GenStack Featured
Each week, GenStack highlights Featured Posts that are recommended for anyone interested in genealogy and family history. You will find them here, and also in my podcast, GenStack Featured with Robin Stewart.
Mightier Acorns
About Mightier Acorns
I started a family-only genealogy blog in 2007 and called it “Mighty Acorns,” referring to the old poems:
"as an ook cometh of a litel spyr" [a spyr, or spire, is a sapling]
-Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, 1374
"The greatest Oaks have been little Acorns."
-Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia, 1732
"Large streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow."
-D. Everett in The Columbian Orator, 1797
(citations courtesy of The Phrase Finder)My research has shaped the way I think about my roots and origins. When I was a kid, I was fascinated with the notion of finding “important people” in my family tree, but as I found more and more “little acorns” - farmers, teachers, and the dozens upon dozens of silent, unnamed women who are all but erased from their own histories - I came to appreciate the fact that I wouldn’t exist at all without any one of the people hiding in the background of history. To me, the fact that they existed and survived makes them mighty. Thus - “Mighty Acorns” was born.
In 2014, I decided to open up my work to the rest of the world, and re-branded the new blog as “Mightier Acorns.”
Stacked the Week
Video Presentations
MURDER WITH VITRIOL - Emma Van Liew
Join me, Kelley Amstutz, The Genealogy Investigator, as we learn about what was happening in the United States in the 1800s with a focus on true crime stories, uncovering some gory details... horrific events... and a lot of EARLY MURDER cases. We sate our CURIOSITY, getting an in-depth look at what the motivations were of these early criminals and what our justice and legal system was made of as we move through SOLVING these real-life whodunit crime stories. Source: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2108410/episodes/16218240
S08EP05 – “The Marine” with Richard Holt
In this sixth episode of Series Eight, host Andrew meets professional genealogist Richard Holt. He hears about how he became hooked on researching family history, what it was like to turn professional, and Richard’s attempts to access original Wills under the Freedom Of Information Act despite the efforts of the UK Government departments seemingly wishing to prevent him. Source: https://familyhistoriespodcast.com/2024/12/03/s08ep05-the-marine-with-richard-holt/
Ancestor Digest
Each week, more ancestors written about in blogs, newsletters, and other forms of digital media will be added to The Ancestor Digest, a curated gallery of articles and posts about specific ancestors. Each new entry during the week will be noted here in this section.
Added the Week:
Webb, Thomas Bailey, Alice 1837
Flicker, William 1824
Payten, Edward 1829
Rose, Hannah Rebecca Pye 183
Walton, Edwin 184
Cawood, Isabella 1847
Teeson. Charles Sampson 1820
Dean, Ellen 1823
Drinkwater, Theophilus 1828
Stephens, Mary Emma 1836
Chambers, George 1828
Beckingham, Frances 1843
Brown, Robert Charles 1853
Stevens, Elizabeth 1855
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Additional Stacks
Maps were Important to North Carolina Pioneers
Friday Genealogy Miscellany #5
Doukhobors
Flashback Friday - Who Was EMMA VAN LIEW?
Black Tudors
A kindred spirit
From the family archive
Wright Family Census Analysis:
A Victorian Working-Class Family Story (1841-1901)
From Betrayal to Blessing
In Sickness Time
6 Signs It's Time to Get Help from a Professional Genealogist
Turning Grief Into Wine and a Lasting Legacy
A multi-tasking Yorkshireman
Genealogy clean-up time!
Family Recipe Box: Fudge
Seven acres on the Warroad River
5. FRANCAVILLA FONTANA – How did it all begin?
Earth shattering shake up
Some great reading here once again Robin. Thanks for the shout out.
Love linking to this community! Thank you.