I have just registered for the November @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social Seminar ‘Getting the most out of the Genealogist Website’, and my Google calendar says “Possible conflict with Recycle bin”. It might be time to change my settings!

Ah, that feeling when your ancestor appears in a Police Gazette as 'missing' ('inquired for by his wife', the mother of his infant son) but Ancestry lists the fact as 'Residence' and his status as Head of House. As Mark Twain said, 'Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.'

This.

If you want a copy of the story about Roald Dahl's daughter Olivia that you can print out and share, here's a PDF:
UNPROTECTED PEOPLE REPORT #108
Measles: A Dangerous Illness

www.immunize.org/wp-content/u...

@comma54.bsky.social Thanks for your response (for some reason I can't reply directly).
@comma54.bsky.social Thanks for your reply (for some reason I can't reply back).
Tom was a Royle; Amelia was a Burton. No evidence of any more offspring of my 2xGGparents ... 1/3

‪Can anyone help me identify my 2xGGF’s birthplace? The 1891 Census shows ‘Cheshire Rungerwood’, while two other records show ‘Dukinfield’. A Google search for Rungerwood has produced no results. If there was such a place, it has (like my ancestor) vanished without trace.
#Cheshire #Genealogy

This. Engagement with your source, is key; anything less, is merely flirtation.

Sheri Byrne-Haber's "Giving A Damn About Accessibility" has great tips on how to deal with people who challenge or dismiss the need for accessibility.

uxdesign.cc/giving-a-dam...

In Iceland, on Christmas Eve, people give each other books so they can spend the evening drinking cocoa & reading. It’s called, Jolabokaflod, the Christmas book flood. I’ve never been more in love with Iceland than I am right now ♥️♥️

If you feel like you don't know what you don't know about accessibility, it can help to follow folks who discuss assistive technology, accessibility and disability. Here's a Bluesky list of people who post a lot about those topics.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Did you know each emoji has a coded description that gets read aloud by screen readers? This demo by Alexa Heinrich shows what happens when a screen reader encounters a post that uses an emoji to function as a bullet point.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMs...

#genealogy tips I wish I had thought of.

If you're scanning old family photos, write or print your caption on a slip of paper, then scan the photo and the caption together as one image. Or make a sketch or tracing of the photo and label the people in the photo on the tracing.

#genealogy One of the cool things you can do with Gmail is label your emails any way you want. I have a label Surname and then nest the surname labels underneath it.

Especially useful when you have surnames like Burns, White, Green, Brown, Young in your tree.

My #OnePlaceStudy has 'Bastard'.

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

FamilyTreeDNA has offered a means to nominate a beneficiary to handle your digital and DNA assets for some time, good to see Ancestry now offering a similar Legacy Contact feature. #genealogy #FamilyHistory #digitallegacy