Ron Williams
@rwgenealogymemoirs.bsky.social
Author “The Lost Fifty-Seven: A Genealogical Journey of Discovery, Deception, Secrets and Scandal.”
www.ronwilliamsmemoirs.com
www.ronwilliamsmemoirs.com
Never expected over 1000 sales! Thanks everyone! #selfpublish #selfpublishing #memoir
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November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Never expected over 1000 sales! Thanks everyone! #selfpublish #selfpublishing #memoir
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I learned that online DNA success is possible! Read how I discovered an unknown 2x Great Grandfather. #ancestrydna #genealogy #ancestry #dnadiscovery #familyhistory
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The DNA trail that led to an unknown grandfather (pt. iI)
In my last blog, I shared thoughts as I began what I considered a “deep-dig” into both my own and my father’s DNA results. It was a task I described as “daunting,” but certainly one that was …
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November 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I learned that online DNA success is possible! Read how I discovered an unknown 2x Great Grandfather. #ancestrydna #genealogy #ancestry #dnadiscovery #familyhistory
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Looks like a useful resource!
Do give this a read! I read the book & thought it gave so much food for thought for ensuring your #genealogy work lives on…
Get your copy below. ⬇️
Get your copy below. ⬇️
October 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Looks like a useful resource!
My grandfather’s 1910 NY home. As we unravel his mysterious life, we’re slowly visiting the many places he lived. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory #dnasecrets
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October 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My grandfather’s 1910 NY home. As we unravel his mysterious life, we’re slowly visiting the many places he lived. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory #dnasecrets
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Follow my genealogical missing persons case page by page. Available now at a temporarily reduced price! #genealogy #missingpersons #ancestry #mystery
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September 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Follow my genealogical missing persons case page by page. Available now at a temporarily reduced price! #genealogy #missingpersons #ancestry #mystery
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Wow! Sounds like an extremely useful guide!
I think this is my favorite use of ChatGPT so far.
Get the guide here: www.theformidablegenealogist.com/product-page...
#genealogy
Get the guide here: www.theformidablegenealogist.com/product-page...
#genealogy
September 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Wow! Sounds like an extremely useful guide!
Always great advice!
Thank you to @familytreemag.bsky.social for publishing this!
You can read my piece below. ⬇️
#Genealogy
You can read my piece below. ⬇️
#Genealogy
Hot of the press! In this new article by @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie, explore the do's and don'ts for using Find a Grave: 🔗 bit.ly/46VRMBG #genealogy #familyhistory #findagrave
September 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Always great advice!
A genealogical, real life, missing person story! #genealogy #dnamystery #missingpersonstory #ancestry
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September 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A genealogical, real life, missing person story! #genealogy #dnamystery #missingpersonstory #ancestry
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Another excellent episode in a great new format. BONUS: involves my home, Vancouver. @genejean.bsky.social #genealogy #GenChat #AncestryHour #familyhistory
S01EP09 – BRICKDUST with Pam Smith
Join host Andrew and guest Pam Smith from Season One for this first Brickdust episode: Did Pam break through her brick wall and find the Etherington connection?
Join host Andrew and guest Pam Smith from Season One for this first Brickdust episode: Did Pam break through her brick wall and find the Etherington connection?
S01EP09 – BRICKDUST with Pam Smith
Join host Andrew and guest Pam Smith from Season One for this first Brickdust episode: Did Pam break through her brick wall and find the Etherington connection?
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September 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Another excellent episode in a great new format. BONUS: involves my home, Vancouver. @genejean.bsky.social #genealogy #GenChat #AncestryHour #familyhistory
Hello folks! There's a brand new episode, of a brand new episode type, out this Friday!
Hop into our email list to catch the latest: subscribepage.io/familyhistpod
#AncestryHour
Hop into our email list to catch the latest: subscribepage.io/familyhistpod
#AncestryHour
September 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Their stories ended on the battlefields of WW1, but they won’t be forgotten. This weekend, I share the final tale from my Western Front research. Stay tuned! #Blog #WW1 #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
September 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Their stories ended on the battlefields of WW1, but they won’t be forgotten. This weekend, I share the final tale from my Western Front research. Stay tuned! #Blog #WW1 #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
Always wondered why this was the case. Male ego?
A few weeks ago, I posted about the resurgence of old-timey first names. This article is 3 years old, but talks about another naming phenomenon - women naming their daughters after themselves. #genealogy (gift link)
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The Women Naming Their Babies After Themselves
Female “Juniors” are rare. But for certain mothers, passing down their name is a no brainer.
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September 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Always wondered why this was the case. Male ego?
Haven’t used this feature…looks worthwhile though!
I see Ancestry are readying a 2025 update to their Ancestral Origins report. This will include new "Macro-regions"
Personally, I prefer the Places feature at dnapainter.com. If you can research your ancestors back a "reasonable number" of generations it gives you a much better feel (Caveats apply!)
Personally, I prefer the Places feature at dnapainter.com. If you can research your ancestors back a "reasonable number" of generations it gives you a much better feel (Caveats apply!)
September 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Haven’t used this feature…looks worthwhile though!
Genealogy brought us all together! #ancestry #genealogy #AncestryHour #GenChat
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September 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Genealogy brought us all together! #ancestry #genealogy #AncestryHour #GenChat
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Definitely an artist whose work I want to know better…
an important thing about Kate Bush as an artist and maybe the reason she is my favorite musical artist is that at no point is she ever trying to look cool. nothing she does is informed by the need to look cool. and sure, people have over time decided she is cool - but that never motivates her music.
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Definitely an artist whose work I want to know better…
DNA Mystery Lovers! Check out my latest blog post showing how I expose an absentee father! #dnamystery #genealogy #ancestry #familymystery
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September 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
DNA Mystery Lovers! Check out my latest blog post showing how I expose an absentee father! #dnamystery #genealogy #ancestry #familymystery
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Interesting…although my four grandparents all immigrated to North America, I discovered none came through Ellis Island. Is this rare? #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
I think most don't realize that there's a little bridge to Ellis Island, so it's possible to drive there. I got to do this once and thought it was incredibly cool! #genealogy
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Eillis Island
A car travels across the bridge to Ellis Island, back to Jersey City, with the Statue of Liberty and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in the background, Aug. 30, 2019.
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August 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Interesting…although my four grandparents all immigrated to North America, I discovered none came through Ellis Island. Is this rare? #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
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The remarkable story that I wrote about Adelaide Springett has been viewed over 30k times #Genealogy #Spitalfields #FamilyHistory #History #London #Victorian #FamilyTree a poor child that suffered so much but it was her courage and bravery that shone through
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Who Was Adelaide Springett?
Another iconic picture and another innocent life captured forever behind a lens, but who was the poor little girl whose life was perpetually framed in this picture and what was her story? The littl…
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August 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The remarkable story that I wrote about Adelaide Springett has been viewed over 30k times #Genealogy #Spitalfields #FamilyHistory #History #London #Victorian #FamilyTree a poor child that suffered so much but it was her courage and bravery that shone through
chiddicksfamilytree.com/2024/02/15/a...
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Summer trip with family…
August 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Summer trip with family…
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Good morning everyone. I hope you are okay today - especially you, Minneapolis. Check on your neighbors. Call your family members. Smile at children and old people. Pound your swords into plowshares. Topple tyrants with righteousness. Call your reps. Demand the cessation of gun sales. Pet a puppy.
August 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Good morning everyone. I hope you are okay today - especially you, Minneapolis. Check on your neighbors. Call your family members. Smile at children and old people. Pound your swords into plowshares. Topple tyrants with righteousness. Call your reps. Demand the cessation of gun sales. Pet a puppy.
Sites of Summer…not bad so far.
July 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Sites of Summer…not bad so far.
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I’m off to France and Belgium next week on a #WW1 Military guided tour of the battlefields and cemeteries. Look out for plenty of pictures!
#Genealogy #History #MilitaryHistory
#Genealogy #History #MilitaryHistory
July 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I’m off to France and Belgium next week on a #WW1 Military guided tour of the battlefields and cemeteries. Look out for plenty of pictures!
#Genealogy #History #MilitaryHistory
#Genealogy #History #MilitaryHistory
You realize how fortunate some of us are today to live with the discoveries of modern medicine.
Truly, talking to my older relatives, the question when doing genealogy and coming across younger people who "disappear" from the record is "they just died" 🤷♀️
From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination.
Row after row of baby headstones.
Row after row of baby headstones.
July 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
You realize how fortunate some of us are today to live with the discoveries of modern medicine.
Family Researchers! I present to you a 1947 letter my grandfather obtained from his bank so he could cross from Canada into the US. I’m told this was not the norm, so…gimme your theories! Thanks. #genealogy #ancestry #familymystery #familysecret #thelostfiftysevenbook
July 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Family Researchers! I present to you a 1947 letter my grandfather obtained from his bank so he could cross from Canada into the US. I’m told this was not the norm, so…gimme your theories! Thanks. #genealogy #ancestry #familymystery #familysecret #thelostfiftysevenbook
Love seeing the old buildings. Anyone else imagine the stories that could be told?
Abandoned by the side of the road.
What first caught my eye about this barn were the vines slowly climbing out from the door.
#Nikon
f/8.0 1/250sec 18mm ISO 125
#Scape
#Landscape
#EastCoastKin
What first caught my eye about this barn were the vines slowly climbing out from the door.
#Nikon
f/8.0 1/250sec 18mm ISO 125
#Scape
#Landscape
#EastCoastKin
July 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Love seeing the old buildings. Anyone else imagine the stories that could be told?