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December 14, 2024

Dec 14, 2024

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

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Video Presentations
Ancestor Digest
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Additional This Week

Note: I apologize. Due to illness this week, there will be no featured content this week. All the articles are still added. I will return to GenStack Featured next week.

Mightier Acorns

Ollie - if Only i

Barbara at Projectkin

Diane the FH Bowerbird

When I was putting together the Callin Family History, I spent about seven years doing research to augment the work I had inherited from George W. Callin, my 2nd-great uncle. Along the way, I submitted dozens of photo requests to Find-a-Grave…

a month ago · 5 likes · 3 comments · Mightier Acorns

Ollie - if Only i

Teenage Stupidity; Driving Drunk, Blacking Out. Divinely Guided Home.

…ifOnlyi… hadn’t been ‘three sheets to the wind’ while trying to impress one of my beautiful classmates, I believe I would have been going to the Prom with her. Had I not been so afraid of missing my…

a month ago · 2 likes · Ollie - if Only i

Family History Bowerbird

My Sixteen – John William Giles - Part 2

In Part 1, we were introduced John William Giles and his wife, Elizabeth Foreman, who lived in Sofala, central western New South Wales, Australia during the 1850s and ran a hotel, the Barley Mow. Their son, Larkin Foreman Giles, was born on 8 September 1862 in Sofala but John William Giles may have already left the area. His identity was hidden within t…

a month ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · Diane the FH Bowerbird

GenTales

A Tale of Two Williamses

My paternal family tree seemingly has two Williams families. A thread that has yet to be pulled is to determine whether this is true…

a month ago · 1 like · Alicia M Prater

Mightier Acorns

Shepards and Rounds

Harriet Jenevereth "Hattie" Shepard (1874–1923) was the paternal grandmother of Merilyn Martin, my wife’s maternal grandmother - and thus, one of “Her Sixteen…

a month ago · 4 likes · Mightier Acorns

Dominus Owen Markham

Mr Fahrenheit and the Christmas Shop

As I mentioned in the previous edition, the city centre of Hull, in the retail sector was rife for both opportunist and organised crime. House of Fraser is well known for its high ticket offerings and so this kept my Security team and I constantly on detect and deter…

a month ago · 3 likes · Dominus Owen Markham

Ollie - if Only i

Doing The Switcheroo On Christmas, Thinking No One Would Ever Know!

ifOnlyi… wasn’t a selfish shithead. Yes, I call myself that because I ruined everyone’s Christmas morning, including mine. And all because I believed that Santa Claus was real and wouldn’t find out, …

a month ago · 3 likes · Ollie - if Only i

Jane Chapman

John and Alice's Fleet Marriage

John and Alice married in 1733. At that time, the Julian calendar was in use. This was later replaced by the Gregorian calendar; the calendar most widely used today. In this article, I have used Julian calendar dates, where applicable, with the equivalent Gregorian calendar date …

a month ago · 5 likes · 6 comments · Jane Chapman

The Lost & Found Story Box

When Christmas Came to Nashville: Part 2

When Christmas Came to Nashville is a four-part holiday story based on actual events which took place in and around Nashville, TN between 1883 and 1888. Some creative liberties have been taken in bringing this wonderful lost & found story back to life, however, every effort has been made to honor the heart, soul and sentiments of the original story thro…

a month ago · 8 likes · 1 comment

Ollie - if Only i

Mom loves rubbing soap in my mouth; WHY, Mom? Do I stink?

if only i…. had not gone through those horrible mouth-soaping events in my teenage years, maybe things would have turned out differently for me and my Mom. Today, I still shake in horror at the thoug…

a month ago · 4 likes · Ollie - if Only i

Genealogy by Aryn

The Santa Claus Bank Robbery: Part One: The Birth of Cisco, Texas & a Bank Robber

On December 23, 1927, in Cisco, Texas, a man donning a moth-eaten Santa suit walked into the First National Bank intending to rob it. What he didn't anticipate was everything that happened next. This incident set off a chain of events that would span for two more years, leaving death in its wake. This is a five-part series titled The Santa Claus Bank Ro…

a month ago · 4 likes · 2 comments · Aryn Youngless

Anne’s Family History

Karlsruhe 1918

In World War 1 prisoners of war captured on the Western Front were, broadly speaking, treated humanely, at least by the standards of later wars. They were accommodated and fed more or less adequately, and subjected to little systematic cruelty…

a month ago · 3 likes · Anne’s Family History

Stories With Shell

Embrace A Surprise Like This 101-Year-Old

Denise is lucky at almost 70 years old. She still has her mother-in-law, not just living nearby in a nursing home, but going strong at the age of 100+. Denise and her husband, Vic, just put on a grand celebration at their retirement complex, a place they whimsically renamed in fun from Century Village to “Cemetery Village…

a month ago · 15 likes · 3 comments · Shell Norman

Paul Chiddicks

As Genealogist's how do we differentiate between ‘Fact and Fiction’?

As genealogists, we search for the truth, we look for evidence to prove and disprove a theory, and we look at all the evidence before we reach a reasoned conclusion. But what if the facts are not correct? What happens if the facts that have been recorded are wrong? How do we decide which facts are true and which facts are fiction? Sometimes it’s not tha…

a month ago · 10 likes · Paul Chiddicks

Tracking Down The Family

Sunday Snippets

Time for another in my occasional Sunday Snippets series. This is where I share what’s been happening in my world of genealogy. Sunday Snippets will appear weekly in 2025. Thankyou for reading Tracking Down The Family. Subscribe for free to receive new posts as they are published…

a month ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Jennifer Jones

Ollie - if Only i

Running On Empty, Dad & I rebuild My Strength

ifOnlyi…acted like a grown teenager should rather than a loose, free-spirited idiot. I may not have ever gone down the road of stupidity…

a month ago · 5 likes · Ollie - if Only i

S08EP06 – “The Homesick” with Jennifer Jones

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.

No new names this week.