I registered yesterday. See you there. I participated in #MyColorfulAncestry back in the day. My cousins enjoyed seeing the charts I made for them—a big win there!

Watch out Cumbria and Yorkshire, and London, I’m coming back! #familyhistory #genealogy #ancestry #cumbriafhs

Nine years ago today, a volunteer in the Cumbria FHS fulfilled a request for a photograph of my 3xGGmother's tombstone, which almost certainly was carved by her grandson-in-law, a talented stonemason and sculptor. #genhour #genealogy 1/3

I received @janetfew.bsky.social’s book, A History of Women’s Work, last week on its debut in the US. I was traveling so I first saw it last night. I plan to read it on a cross-country flight this weekend. It looks very promising. #genealogy #familyhistory

…and I found a new-to-me article about my bootlegging Ulster-Canadian great-grandfather in my first search on the new site. #Genealogy (oops 4/3)

The Bottineau pioneer (Bottineau, N.D. USA), June 23, 1894; image 3, column 1; Chronicling America, lccn.loc.gov/sn88076679. Accessed 4 Aug 2025.

My sister and I took the Settle-Carlisle line (starting from York) last summer. Such beautiful scenery from every angle.

A favorite feature of FamilySearch was the map of 1851 English jurisdictions. Sadly, it had outdated tech and frequently broke. I opened the page and it has a whole new user interface. www.familysearch.org/en/mapp/

Early Historical Maps #genchat post for this weekend. #Ancestrychat #Genealogy

This year, no. Last summer I spent 2+ weeks in the north of England visiting ancestral haunts. We stayed a where my 3xGGmother spent her last years and I visited her grave every day. Nice stone for a woman who died in an alms house! It was likely carved by her granddaughter’s husband, a stonemason.

#GenHour friends, help me out. The minister of Dufton Parish in Westmorland seems to have signed off on the Bishop's Transcript that includes his burial. What was commonly done when BTs were created around that time?

A gravestone helped identify the origin place in Ireland for my Shannon immigrants in Ontario, Canada. I can only guess that this Robert was a brother of my 3xGGF John Shannon. (The light makes it look like he was "aged 33 yrs" but it does say "aged 93 yrs.") Sadly, John Shannon's stone is gone.

On my very first visit to an archive, I found my grandfather's mother's family register pages cut from her bible. It was an indescribable feeling.

Brothers who averaged seven feet tall. Years ago, my distant cousin sent this snippet about our Joseph Ryder of Bellerby. I haven't connected the Rev'd Dr.'s great uncle to our family but I hope the legendary giants do belong to us. #FamilyLore #GenealogyStories #FamilyHistory

Scammer? Heir Hunter? The first ad below 6 June 1863 in the Missing Friends page of The Boston Pilot sounds so scammy.

The two ads above the date are my husband's 3x ggparents' ads for their siblings. I found it years ago when it was on the Missing Friends website. #familyhistory #genealogy

I have one where the child’s name (George/John) was corrected in the PR but not in the BT so I suspect the cleric realized the error long after the BT was sent to the Bishop. My relative’s entry, which I suspect was Ann not Matthew, appears to have been added not only later but in two phases.

A clump of mistakes. No other records exist for Matthew, yet his sister Ann—born around the same time—has no baptism record. Could it be that, just before the Bishops Transcripts were handed over, a church warden hastily added a fitting biblical name to both books? #familyhistory #genealogy

I found a Bishops Transcript for a 1761 baptism in Hauxwell parish, Yorkshire, at FamilySearch a couple years ago. Now I find the Parish Register but his baptism entry was in 1760!?! In the corner of the BT, the churchwardens say it is a true copy of the entries for 1760. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

Ten years ago, I found this article about my 2xggfather taking his children to the church for a mass baptism. Jane Hough @allthosebefore.bsky.social on S8E9 of The Family Histories Podcast @familyhistpod.bsky.social described a similar family baptism. #familyhistory #Genealogy #ancestry 1/3

My great-grandfather Alfred likely trained as a stonemason with his father in England, with his apprenticeship years falling neatly between census records. In 1888, he emigrated to Toronto with his wife and eight children, where he worked for two summers on the Parliament building. #genealogy

That #MyColorfulAncestors was a fun exercise. Wow—9 years ago now. #Genealogy