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February 1, 2025

Robin Stewart

Feb 01, 2025

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This week’s Featured Newsletter, Kyeburn Diggings One-Place Study comes from
Jane Chapman
who we know from BJNL’s Genealogy.

Jane has just launched this brand new newsletter dedicated to her One-Place Study on Kyeburn Diggings. Find out more about the history of this place, its fascinating location and the people who populated it.

Kyeburn Diggings One-Place Study

By way of explanation ...

Some background …

15 days ago · Jane Chapman

Kyeburn Diggings: One-Place Study

Kyeburn Diggings One-Place Study

About Keyburn Diggings One-Place Study—The study focuses on the Kyeburn Diggings in Central Otago, New Zealand. The Diggings began not long after the discovery of gold there in 1861 and for a time was populated by many miners and their families. Coal was also mined in the area.
The study attempts to draw together whatever information can be found about the individuals and families who lived and worked at the Kyeburn Diggings. It aims to build a picture of the social fabric of the place over time through the lives and interactions of those individuals and families who lived and worked there.
The study has been registered with the Society for One-Place Studies. It is being built using the weare.xyz platform created for this purpose.
Source: https://kyeburndiggingsops.substack.com/about

Steve Stockdale

Four AI Genealogy Research Successes

Over the last week I’ve tiptoed into the AI end of the genealogy research pool. After wading around a few days, following are four encouraging results concerning…

16 days ago · 4 likes · 5 comments · Steve Stockdale

Kyeburn Diggings One-Place Study

By way of explanation ...

Some background …

15 days ago · Jane Chapman

Tracking Down The Family

Remembrance Georgina Annette Cox

Today, I am remembering great great grandmother, Georgina Maria Annette COX who died at Heathcote, Victoria, 82 years ago, on 31 January 1943, and was buried at Heathcote Cemetery…

15 days ago · 5 likes · Jennifer Jones

GenTales

Shoutout to Subscribers of GenTales

This post outside the range of the normally scheduled program (i.e., Wednesdays) is to thank all of you for subscribing to GenTales. I started this newsletter in De…

15 days ago · 8 likes · 2 comments · Alicia M Prater

Ollie - if Only i

Party Time: It Was More Than Just SNL, It Was A Real Saturday Night Live!

ifOnlyi… had not written this story, I would have left part of my journey out, and that’s not what ‘if Only i’ by Ollie is all about. My journey is about surviving it all to be able to write this and…

15 days ago · 3 likes · 3 comments · Ollie - if Only i

Genealogy Storytelling

Jailbreak Attempt

If you would like to start from the beginning, this series starts here: In the Beginning: Part 1 The Buckfoot Gang…

15 days ago · 8 likes · 1 comment · Cynthia Boatright Raleigh

Emma’s Substack

William Dey - my maternal great grandfather

Here’s the second of the biographies of my 8 great grandparents: William Dey…

15 days ago · 4 likes · 2 comments · Emma - Journeys into Genealogy

Culinary History is Family History

Saying Goodbye with Minnesota Funeral Food

Release date: January 31, 2025…

15 days ago · 9 likes · 5 comments · Lori Olson White

My Three Fathers

Language Regrets (Part 1)

I don’t have many regrets but one is that I was not brought up bilingual. Though what language I would have learnt is not clear. Thanks for reading My Three Fathers! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work…

15 days ago · 3 likes · Helene Ryding

Paul Chiddicks

Second World War Orphaned Siblings Reunited After Decades Apart

Researching family history is often filled with twists, turns, and surprising discoveries. However, when searching for a relative who was adopted and separated at a young age, the challenge can seem even more overwhelming. In this post, I’ll share the remarkable journey of my friend Rob, who managed to trace his mother’s adopted sister, Maureen, using a…

16 days ago · 5 likes · Paul Chiddicks

Ollie - if Only i

I Was To Drive South But No, I Drove North.

ifOnlyi…had driven South instead of going North, how would it all have ended…

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

Mightier Acorns

Daunting Family Fractals

I tell my fellow researchers that I use this Substack newsletter as a family history tool, but what does that mean…

16 days ago · 10 likes · 3 comments · Mightier Acorns

Genealogy by Aryn

Jean Seberg verses the FBI

When we hear the name Joan of Arc, we conjure an image in our heads. For me, it's a teenage European woman with cropped hair, high cheekbones, a full mouth, and, of course, a pious look on her face. She gazes upwards in prayer…

16 days ago · 6 likes · 2 comments · Aryn Youngless

Dr. Mary Marshall's Collection

America During The Red Summer of 1919

The summer of 1919 is called “the Red Summer,” a name given this period by African American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnso…

16 days ago · 20 likes · 6 comments · Dr. Mary M. Marshall

Anne’s Family History

Philip Chauncy’s memoir: 1837

The State Library of Victoria has an unpublished memoir of my third great grandfather, Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy (1816 – 1880), which he wrote in 1877. I have been transcribing it in this series of posts…

17 days ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · Anne’s Family History

Letters from LaBelle

Lessons, luck, and the Land Lotto

One of the things I find most enjoyable about genealogy research is discovering family ties to interesting historical events. Before embarking on this journey I had only a little knowledge of the events surrounding the Oklahoma land rush. Outside of a brief mention of it in my elementary school days and my movie memory of…

17 days ago · 1 like · 1 comment

GenTales

Civil War Ambrotypes from the Lincoln Family

This month’s behind the paywall is an article published originally on Medium on January 9. Ambrotypes and Civil War Soldiers be read there instead by using this link…

17 days ago · 2 likes · Alicia M Prater

Dominus Owen Markham

Head's Will Roll? Mr.Admin...

Every day at work was full-on. As well as my Operations and Tech Management role, a sudden departure of the Quality Control Manager, who had decided he couldn’t manage and was off to a better life in Tenerife…that job dropped into my lap also…

17 days ago · 1 like · Dominus Owen Markham

Tracking Down The Family

Letter to Bedfordshire, England - May 1862

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…

18 days ago · 7 likes · 1 comment · Jennifer Jones

Ollie - if Only i

Went To The Mall, Came Out To Find The Main Part Of My Car Was Stolen.

ifOnlyi…didn’t need fresh new underwear, this event would never have happened…

18 days ago · 5 likes · 4 comments · Ollie - if Only i

Stories from the Tree

What’s in a Name? Quite Possibly, Everything.

According to AncestryDNA(R) I come from ten different ancestral regions. None of which include the Scandinavian countries. Yet, my name – Kirsten, or Kirsi – is of Scandinavian origin. Won’t that be confusing to future descendants researching the family tree…

18 days ago · 14 likes · 6 comments · Kirsi Dahl

Mightier Acorns

How the Headlines Got It Wrong

“If it bleeds, it leads…

18 days ago · 9 likes · 5 comments · Mightier Acorns

The Lost & Found Story Box

The Incorrigible John George: Part 4

The Incorrigible John George is the true story of John Mathias George, a notorious Alabama bootlegger, lawbreaker and storyteller. If you’re new to the story, you might want to start at the beginning of this four-part series…

18 days ago · 11 likes · 8 comments

Anne’s Family History

A busy bee

When my 3rd great aunt Theresa Chauncy (1807-1876) emigrated to Australia, the voyage from Gravesend to Adelaide lasted 115 days. It was a smooth and uneventful passage, so calm and unremarkable that Theresa complained that she was bored, writing to her father…

19 days ago · 1 like · Anne’s Family History

BJNL's Genealogy

George and Elizabeth's Children - Unravelling the Evidence - Trying to fill the gaps?

This the fourth part of a four part article about two convicts transported to Australia who eventually met and raised a family, firstly in Australia and later in New Zealand…

19 days ago · 6 likes · 2 comments · Jane Chapman

Stories With Shell

Shadows of Death

Ricky flew into our yard uninvited one day when my mom and I were swimming in our little above-ground pool. The beautiful azure markings caught our eye immediately in the bush just above the siding, and the song bursts seemed shared just for us. A parakeet in the middle of a Detroit neighborhood was not a common sight…

19 days ago · 23 likes · 14 comments · Shell Norman

My Three Fathers

The Brazilian Story

This story was originally written for my blog in 2006. It should have been simple to update, but as always, what seems simple usually isn’t. But because of later developments I have added some more information, and checked the dates. In the middle of checking information and dates I began to have some doubts about what was really going on…

19 days ago · 3 likes · 3 comments · Helene Ryding

Legacy Carvers

Can I Turn Dad's Old-fashioned Poem into a Song?

Show Your Work…

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

Anne’s Family History

Bound for South Australia 1837

In October 1836, my third great grand aunt Theresa Chauncy (1807-1876), her sister Martha (1813-1899) and Martha’s husband Charles Berkeley (1794-1856) sailed from London in the “John Renwick”, arriving in South Australia four months later. Martha and Charles Berkeley were married a week before the voyage began…

20 days ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Anne’s Family History

ancestory

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). It’s astonishing to think that there is someone alive today who is the grandson of a ma…

20 days ago · 23 likes · 10 comments · Lisa Maguire

Projectkin Community Forum

A Brief Chat in the Livestream with Jane Hutcheon

As we all navigate new experiences and tools, these live sessions have become a fun way to connect personally and spontaneously. Though the live sessions are only available to Projectkin subscribers, I make the recordings available to everyone on our website. On my home page, I’ve endeavored to keep the focus on the current week’s recording, but you can…

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20 days ago · 10 likes · 4 comments · Barbara at Projectkin and Jane Hutcheon

Ollie - if Only i

No Job, No Car, Moving Out Of The Family Home With Only Faith.

ifOnlyi… knew what was about to lie ahead for me on my own. The events and many blessings may not have happened at the same time, but I certainly am full of gratitude that I survived it all…

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

Legacies of Love: My Great-Grandmother's WWII Triumph

23. Siegmund Abraham - Early Years

Siegmund is BornLegacies of Love: My Great-Grandmother's WWII Triumph is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber…

20 days ago · Geoffrey Marx

Anne’s Family History

Australia Day Memories

Five years ago my husband Greg and I wrote about our national holiday. At that time there had been major bushfires where we lived. It was just before the pandemic…

21 days ago · Anne’s Family History

Anne’s Family History

Philip Chauncy’s memoir: 1835 and 1836

Philip Chauncy’s 1877 memoir continues with an account of his training to be a surveyor…

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

Heines Sight

Using AI to Translate

I was reading the other day that AI can now translate. Although that's hard to believe, I decided to test three AIs to translate German into English…

14 days ago · Lynda Heines

A Pioneer Mother's Challenge

( I couldn’t get the link to work correctly for this post, so I improvised.)

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