Mary Kirtland
@marykir.bsky.social
Experiencing sensory overload since 2002. Multitasking challenged. Hermit in training. Genealogy, gardening, reading, Lego. I will try to keep the sports commentary to a minimum.
Between 1570 and 1615, there are 5 church records with the surname Bissinger in Rudersberg, Württemberg - all relatives of a Vincenz Bissinger. So is "Zyntheß" (Fyntheß??) a really weird spelling of Vincent? 🤔 Or do I keep trying to read this funky handwriting? 🤣 #genealogy
![Den 5.te Jannuary, 1616, obyt Rhuoderßberg--, Zyntheß Byssinger, 80, Jarig. [some abbreviated latin which I can never remember what this guy's formula is]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mbpshe2q27ktmdpjc52f3vms/bafkreicex54432j2lb6af66dabs6aazodhyo7rwewqt2c2kemmdxxwwwsi@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Between 1570 and 1615, there are 5 church records with the surname Bissinger in Rudersberg, Württemberg - all relatives of a Vincenz Bissinger. So is "Zyntheß" (Fyntheß??) a really weird spelling of Vincent? 🤔 Or do I keep trying to read this funky handwriting? 🤣 #genealogy
hmm, apparently all the ancestors whose origins I don't know where from southeast England or the other side of the channel...
...and so were most of the ancestors I found in German church records 🙃 #genealogy #ancestry
...and so were most of the ancestors I found in German church records 🙃 #genealogy #ancestry
October 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
hmm, apparently all the ancestors whose origins I don't know where from southeast England or the other side of the channel...
...and so were most of the ancestors I found in German church records 🙃 #genealogy #ancestry
...and so were most of the ancestors I found in German church records 🙃 #genealogy #ancestry
Excellent juxtaposition 🤣
September 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Excellent juxtaposition 🤣
So I tried Ancestry's new transcription tool on an admittedly challenging German church record. (If it wasn't challenging, I wouldn't need a transcription tool...) #genealogy
September 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
So I tried Ancestry's new transcription tool on an admittedly challenging German church record. (If it wasn't challenging, I wouldn't need a transcription tool...) #genealogy
I think there was a spider web across every possible place I wanted to walk or work in my yard today 🕸️
August 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I think there was a spider web across every possible place I wanted to walk or work in my yard today 🕸️
Why do the most interesting looking records have the worst handwriting? 🤔🤣 #genealogy
July 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Why do the most interesting looking records have the worst handwriting? 🤔🤣 #genealogy
Close, Ancestry. You were very close... 🤣😒 #genealogy #Ancestry
July 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Close, Ancestry. You were very close... 🤣😒 #genealogy #Ancestry
I suppose one way of dealing with poor location indexing in your records is to just remove the location (and date!) fields from the search form 🤔 #Ancestry #genealogy
June 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I suppose one way of dealing with poor location indexing in your records is to just remove the location (and date!) fields from the search form 🤔 #Ancestry #genealogy
stop your doomscrolling and look at some flowers 🙂
June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
stop your doomscrolling and look at some flowers 🙂
Tree peony & California Lilac starting to bloom...
April 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Tree peony & California Lilac starting to bloom...
Wow, the city was *not* fooling around when they cut back the street trees today...
April 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Wow, the city was *not* fooling around when they cut back the street trees today...
I am working on a section of my tree that is all from the same part of Germany. I work back on each line until I run out of church records, which is usually people born late 1500s to mid 1600s. One recently *did* die of plague (peste correptus)!
![my best guess: peste correptus nic pastor M. Heinricus Pfenning [Leauamis Leomontanus].
Beate vitam suam cum morte commutavit 4 May Anno 1611.
relinquens post se ui duam Matrem Trium Liberorum, quae et
ipsa praegnans peste simul correpta convaluit Immaturo partu
Liberata et superato.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mbpshe2q27ktmdpjc52f3vms/bafkreihbddgrqmunvftuiipuv2k5crta3uuhdnuv5eezdnat7uzvodb4oq@jpeg)
April 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I am working on a section of my tree that is all from the same part of Germany. I work back on each line until I run out of church records, which is usually people born late 1500s to mid 1600s. One recently *did* die of plague (peste correptus)!
Who wants to practice their 17th-century #Latin transcription and translation skills? #genealogy
(Full page from Fürnsal church records is on Archion if you have a sub. www.archion.de/p/9fd4bf8a7c/)
(Full page from Fürnsal church records is on Archion if you have a sub. www.archion.de/p/9fd4bf8a7c/)
April 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Who wants to practice their 17th-century #Latin transcription and translation skills? #genealogy
(Full page from Fürnsal church records is on Archion if you have a sub. www.archion.de/p/9fd4bf8a7c/)
(Full page from Fürnsal church records is on Archion if you have a sub. www.archion.de/p/9fd4bf8a7c/)
Magenta heather, red pasque flower, yellow daffodils, and white/yellow tulip turkestanica in amongst the oak leaves that fill my yard (I do not have any oak trees 🤔)
March 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Magenta heather, red pasque flower, yellow daffodils, and white/yellow tulip turkestanica in amongst the oak leaves that fill my yard (I do not have any oak trees 🤔)
daffodils demanding your attention - think these are 'Decoy' although the cups look more salmon than red to me
March 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
daffodils demanding your attention - think these are 'Decoy' although the cups look more salmon than red to me
neighbor's *very* thorn-y quince and forsythia that try to take over my back yard every year...
always fun to get stuck on the thorns while up on a ladder 🙃
always fun to get stuck on the thorns while up on a ladder 🙃
March 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
neighbor's *very* thorn-y quince and forsythia that try to take over my back yard every year...
always fun to get stuck on the thorns while up on a ladder 🙃
always fun to get stuck on the thorns while up on a ladder 🙃
Started out cold & wet, but turned into a beautiful day...
March 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Started out cold & wet, but turned into a beautiful day...
now I know what Grandma meant when she complained my handwriting was too small... #genealogy
March 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
now I know what Grandma meant when she complained my handwriting was too small... #genealogy
March 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
March 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Almost all the places of origin I know are southwest German or British, except for a couple Scandinavians...
March 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Almost all the places of origin I know are southwest German or British, except for a couple Scandinavians...
Nice try, Google Translate... #genealogy
March 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Nice try, Google Translate... #genealogy
March 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
February 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I have definitely seen upside down entries in Württemberg evangelical church records. None my family, though, to have saved or translated. This is a partly upside down record from Rötenerg 1697, which looks like the parents aren't married... (www.archion.de/p/cc71c22d0a/)
February 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I have definitely seen upside down entries in Württemberg evangelical church records. None my family, though, to have saved or translated. This is a partly upside down record from Rötenerg 1697, which looks like the parents aren't married... (www.archion.de/p/cc71c22d0a/)