February 8, 2025

Robin Stewart

Feb 08, 2025

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GenStack Featured

Each week, GenStack highlights Featured Posts that are recommended for anyone interested in genealogy and family history.

In Lynda’s post, “Grandma’s Pumpkin Pie,” she takes us on a journey through the history of a beloved family recipe. Rooted in her grandmother’s creativity, this heirloom recipe was handed down in the generations to Lynda. Her eloquent story of a family tradition and it’s evolution, told through the simplicity of a recipe paints a beautiful picture of her family’s history.

Heines Sight

Lynda Heines

Lynda writes:
I’ve been a writer ever since mom gave me that Girl Scout diary back in 6^th grade. Growing up I had lots of penpals from all over the world, and later in life taught others how to journal (or what I called Heartwriting) and also how to write their story. Through my newspaper column I found my voice in art and created a popular dyeing technique. My interest in genealogy hit me nine years ago, and I spend a lot of my time between the dye studio and my genealogy research. Meanwhile I’m a wife, a friend, a cat herder, picture taker, and iris lover. As with my art, I hope this newsletter will inspire you.
Source: lyndaheines.substack.com/about

Heines Sight

Grandma's Pumpkin Pie

Most of us have that special dish that brings back memories. Lori recently posted about Minnesota Funeral Food. I don't remember anything about food when relatives passed away, but I remember my grandma's pumpkin pie…

14 days ago · 8 likes · 9 comments · Lynda Heines

Mightier Acorns

The Double Life of Uncle Jack

William Zardie Sly (1882–1954) took his middle name from his maternal grandfather, Gilbert Zardius Avery; most of the references I have found refer to him as "Zardy," or by his initials "W.Z." which probably served to distinguish him from the generations of William Slys related to each other and living in Wood county, Ohio…

12 days ago · 4 likes · Mightier Acorns

Culinary History is Family History

Uses for a red-handled kitchen shears

Dad’s home-made haircut…

12 days ago · 4 likes · 5 comments · Lori Olson White

The Creighton Cabin

Transportation Shapes Our Lives

When I was a kid, some of our family vacations were spent driving U.S.Route 36 from Ohio to Kansas to see my grandparents. It was a two-day drive out, visit for two days, and drive two days home. On one of those visits, my mom gave my brother and me paper and pencils with instructions, “Go see your Great Grandma, ask questions about her life, and take…

13 days ago · 6 likes · 3 comments · Crystal Lorimor

Projectkin Community Forum

One-Place Studies Workshop » Part 1: Getting Up & Running with Janet Barrie

In September 2024, Projectkin was honored by the opportunity to be a co-sponsor of the collaborative program “All About That Place” featuring the Society for One-Place Studies, the Society of Genealogists, the British Association for Local History, and…

Listen now

13 days ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · Barbara at Projectkin

Serengenity

What lies beneath: digging under old gravestones

I have X-Ray vision…

13 days ago · 8 likes · 4 comments · David Shaw

Genealogy Storytelling

West Side Cave Park

This is the second of a two-part story about a man-made cave that became an infamous party spot back in 1888. The location was in Evansville, Indiana, so if you’re from Evansville, or know of it, give me a shout out…

Listen now

13 days ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Cynthia Boatright Raleigh

Chronicle Makers

Why I Quit Professional Genealogy and What I'm Doing Now

A realization hit me hard at the end of last year…

13 days ago · 30 likes · 26 comments · Denyse Allen

Dominus Owen Markham

The Confrontation...Life Changing?

Remembering that I have significant technical and investigative skills (ex-RAF Police), I spent time, within the first 24 hours of finding out my wife was being unfaithful, researching who this man was…

14 days ago · 1 like · Dominus Owen Markham

Tracking Down The Family

Letters to Bedfordshire - August 1862

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

14 days ago · 5 likes · 4 comments · Jennifer Jones

Heines Sight

Grandma's Pumpkin Pie

14 days ago · 7 likes · 9 comments · Lynda Heines

GenTales

Americans Are Children of Immigrants

My family tree isn’t very diverse. We’re essentially White Americans. My DNA comparisons on Ancestry don’t disprove this simplification - not counting matches wi…

14 days ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Alicia M Prater

Mightier Acorns

Do You Like My Schedule?

I don’t know how I did it, but at some point, I shifted from scheduling my Mightier Acorns posts on Wednesday and Friday mornings. My music newsletter All Kinds Musick was posting Tuesday and Thursday nights at midnight, and I think I mentally shifted both schedules back during a transition from one month to the next…

14 days ago · 4 likes · Mightier Acorns

BJNL's Genealogy

It's been a Journey ...

I am currently travelling in search of sun and sand. That always happens at this time of year. That means that family history research slows down a bit during February. Although, I never completely leave it behind…

15 days ago · 8 likes · 7 comments · Jane Chapman

Ollie - if Only i

My 74 Year Old Grandmother Saw My White Butt, The Moon Shining On It At 3 Am In The Morning!

ifOnlyi… had stopped being so terribly immature. Then, experiencing guilt and living with it is not how you get the most out of your life’s journey…

15 days ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Ollie - if Only i

Family History with Bill Moore

Shaped by the Oil Boom - Lester L. Boardman of Wichita Falls, Texas

The oil boom around Wichita Falls, Texas, in the 1920s and 1930s was a transformative period that reshaped the region's economy and culture. The discovery of oil in Burkburnett in 1918 marked the beginning of a frenzy of drilling and exploration that attracted investors and workers from across the country. The Burkburnett oilfield, often called "the wor…

16 days ago · 4 likes · 3 comments · Bill Moore

Steve Stockdale

My 2nd Introduction: Why I'm Here

After posting my 16-Ancestor introduction here, and being so warmly welcomed to this community, I feel as though a couple more introductions are warranted. This can can be considered the first part of my genealogy origin story as a late-in-life convert…

16 days ago · 10 likes · 10 comments · Steve Stockdale

Mightier Acorns

When Were We Neutral?

As I have conducted my family history research over the years, I have had to go back more than once and reconsider my biases…

16 days ago · 21 likes · 8 comments · Mightier Acorns

Jenny’s Scrapbook of Family History Stories

A Fuel Stop Surprise

When Amy Johnson Crow's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" prompt "Surprise" was listed, I initially drew a blank. Then I remembered this story - one that perfectly captures how family history research can surprise us in the most unexpected places…

17 days ago · 5 likes · JenealogyScrapbook

Stories With Shell

The Dangerous Games Children Play

Sliding down the side of the garage…

16 days ago · 21 likes · 14 comments · Shell Norman

Genealogy by Aryn

Graveyard Gossip

February 2025 is upon us, and boy do I hope and pray it’s much kinder than January. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work…

17 days ago · 5 likes · 1 comment · Aryn Youngless

Anne’s Family History

Philip Chauncy’s memoir: 1839 part 1

Early in 1839 Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy (1816 – 1880), my third great grandfather, completed his articles with a surveyor, Joseph Jackson, of March, Cambridgeshire…

17 days ago · 2 likes · Anne’s Family History

Legacy Carvers

Dear Future Descendants: Yes, That’s Really Me

Friday I released my latest video. You can watch it here…

17 days ago · 5 likes · 4 comments · Nancy At Legacy Carvers

Ollie - if Only i

Police, Ticket, Court, Attorney That's Me!

ifOnlyi…I had different thoughts, as my friend Jim did; I might not even have gotten in trouble with the courthouse. Ultimately, I was extremely grateful for how I was treated in court. BLESSED…

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

Anne’s Family History

Philip Chauncy’s memoir: 1838

Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy (1816 – 1880), my third great grandfather, continues his memoir with events from 1838, beginning with his return to Over, Cambridgeshire, where he resumed his surveying work. His projects included a major land subdivision in Sutton…

18 days ago · 5 likes · 1 comment · Anne’s Family History

Kyeburn Diggings One-Place Study

Accidentally Drowned

' … the deceased Lawrence Peter M'Carthy was drowned accidentally in the Kyeburn River on the 10th August, 1881, being swept down the river about eighty yards, after falling from the crossing…

12 days ago · Jane Chapman

Ollie - if Only i

Dental Drama, Driving Castastrophy: My Journey To Lompoc Prison.

ifOnlyi…I hadn’t driven to Solvang. I had not eaten any solid food for two-plus weeks, and I knew it was a risk to take the 141-mile trip, then work for four hours. That day didn’t end well, and the …

12 days ago · 2 likes · 4 comments · Ollie - if Only i

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