#OTD 30 March 1872 Charles Christey Cushnie was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of 6 children born to immigrants David Park Cushnie and Margaret Maize, who had been pregnant on the ship from Glasgow. David had been a miner in Scotland and found employment in a coal mine in Pennsylvania. Charles followed his father into the coal mines, but as an engineer. He later became an electrician in a tin mill. He married and had 6 children, including my father's stepmother.
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Had a #genealogy scare today: it appeared that I had lost 14 months of data input from my Legacy database & I couldn't tell why.

So I determined the missing input date range & then went to Facebook to see if anything I might have posted lent any clues. Turns out that I got my new laptop in December 2023, with Windows 11 and with it, the dreaded OneDrive.

Fast forward to February 2025, when I had a different Legacy issue that led me to correcting the backup to my hard drive (as opposed to OneDrive). Somehow it made Legacy forget everything it had saved before.

Fortunately, I found a whole bunch of old backups, including February 1, 2025...which had all my old data!

I completely turned off OneDrive (I have Backblaze as a backup anyway), unzipped the Feb 1 file & opened it & proceeded from there.

Now I only have a month worth of data to input instead of 14 months. Annoying but much, much better!

#geniatip : Bei der Arbeit am #ofb #Lampertheim habe ich es mit vielen #Auswanderer in die #USA zu tun. Besonders viele Lampertheimer dabei sind in der Stadt #Chillicothe (Ross County #Ohio) gelandet - darunter die Familien #Boxheimer #Griesheimer #Hamm #Heiselbetz #Medert #Schobeloch #Uhrig #Wegerle und #Wennesheimer

Hier ist das #Online-#Archiv von "The #RossCounty #Heritage Center" eine tolle #Fundgrube: https://rosscounty.pastperfectonline.com

'Curl up in a comfy chair and enjoy this intriguing romance!'

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#ASummerOfSecretsByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #Romance #Mystery #Genealogy #GenealogyFiction #FamilyHistory #KindleUnlimited @bookstodon

#OTD 29 March 1866 Isaac H Lake was born in or near Morgan County, Illinois, to Lindsay Lake and wife number 6, Elizabeth Witte Beagle. Elizabeth died sometime in the next 3 years. Lindsay remarried, but died when Isaac was 10. By age 14, Isaac was on his own, working as a farmhand. He later married in Arkansas and moved to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where he became a stock dealer, dying without issue in 1943.

How much of that is true? US census records are very imperfect. In the census records between 1910 and 1940, his birthplace and that of his parents were terribly inconsistent. His death record has his parents as unknown. There may be two different men or it may reflect lack of family knowledge due to being orphaned.
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#GenChat TY for a fun and mouth-watering #Genealogy #FamilyHistory chat today! Have a good day, all. Go Lady Huskies.

#Genealogy FamilySearch has updated its catalog search tech: https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/new-familysearch-catalog

#geniatip : #Deutsch​e #Kolonisten - die #Webseite von Jutta #Rzdadkowski über #Migranten aus #Süddeutschland:

https://deutsche-kolonisten.de/start/willkommen/

Die #Datenbank enthält #Information​en über 180.000 #Person​en zum Teil mit #Scan​s der entsprechenden Einträge im #Kirchenbuch

Lohnend auch ein Blick ins #Inhaltsverzeichnis mit Verweis auf viele interessante #Blog​beiträge über #Auswanderer nach #USA #Russland #Ukraine #Georgien #Polen

#OTD 28 March 1934 Mary Jane Smith Pryor died in Oklahoma City. She was born 12 January 1853, the eldest living child of the farmer George Fraker Smith and Nancy Alley. When she was nine years old, the Civil War came to the area of Jasper, Tennessee, where the family lived. The Smiths survived the war and thrived. At 17, Mary Jane married Benjamin Franklin Pryor. Frank made some unwise money choices and my great-great-grandparents left to start over in Texas. They had 5 girls and one boy.
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https://scrappinmyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/10/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-39-mary-jane.html

I've finally managed to find a copy of a record I've been looking for for ages! This was my 3rd great grandfather Dafydd John's favourite song. He passed away in 1894 so wouldn't have ever heard it on a record. The choir is from the Borough Welsh Chapel in London, which is still in existence. They won the National Eisteddfod in Liverpool in 1929 with the same conductor on this record, so my guess is that it was recorded late 20s or early 30s.

Interestingly this record plays at 80rpm, and Discogs has what I assumed was a repress on a different label, but that one plays at the standard 78. (Do I now need to acquire a copy of that one for comparison?)

Baptist Handbooks 1832-1955 have arrived on #FindMyPast
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/britain-baptist-handbooks-1832-1955 #£ #Baptist #nonconformist genchat @genealogy @geneadons #genealogy

Meine Urgroßtante Emma verstarb 1967 bei einem Verkehrsunfall in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Mein Vater war damals 10 Jahre alt und hat mit seinem Bruder und seinen Eltern die Wohnung ausgeräumt. Emma hortete neben Massen von Pralinen und Schokolade auch Geld, vor allem aus vergangenen Zeiten – darunter 100 Reichsmark und einen 5-Mark-Darlehensschein. Diese beiden Scheine sind bis heute erhalten geblieben. #genealogy #ahnenforschung #Familienforschung #urgroßtanteemma

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#OTD 27 March 1873 Joseph McFarlane was naturalized in the Circuit Court at Monroe County, Wisconsin. It had been 24 long years since he arrived in the United States. He had declared his intention to become a citizen in 1850. Did immigrants then (and now) understand the process? Was it procrastination? Joseph had acquired a homestead in the 1860's, but could not finalize the claim without becoming a citizen. That was certainly a pressing reason for my great-great-grandfather to complete the naturalization process.
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Emailing my auntie, mentioning I have physical descriptions for our Irish ancestors. Her granny was 4 foot 11 inches. At least as a teenager. I also have the granny's eye colour and hair colour. And similarly her parents and other relatives. Thanks so much to petty crime and Dublin prison registers! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ireland #Dublin #Crime #Prison

#genchat is Saturday (March 29) on Mastodon! We’re having an Open Mic about Foods of Our Ancestors…that includes recipes, ancestral eating habits, what they may have grown or bought, old cookbooks - anything food & #genealogy related!

#genchat is tomorrow night on Bluesky! We’re having an Open Mic about Foods of Our Ancestors…that includes recipes, ancestral eating habits, what they may have grown or bought, old cookbooks - anything food & #genealogy related!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g34q5st6wp4kfpzxrswi3iqw/post/3lkf5akptdj23

I was astonished to read about this milestone as it turns out that 81 of these 100 soldiers were heroes I researched. #genealogy

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4135314/hegseth-announces-100th-service-member-identified-from-remains-turned-over-by-n/

As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information | Adam Rutherford https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/geneticist-mourn-23andme-useless-health-information #Biotechnologyindustry #Lifeandstyle #Genealogy #Worldnews #Genetics #Privacy #Science #Biology #Family