https://tdrnow.family.blog/2025/08/28/the-plantagenets-episode-4/

Now available... Episode 4 of the Plantagenet's, Thomas Wyatt the Younger, Wyatts Rebellion those whom lost their lives and affects in the family. #history #familyhistory #dna #Genealogy #généalogie #podcast #blog My Family History and ancestors connected to the event are at the bottom of the blog in a slide. It's an interactive blog and podcast, learn and listen, and read, look truth photos all at the same time. #wyattsrebellion #tudors #Plantagenets

Feeding the chickens! Irving Joslyn Call and Helen Elizabeth Call - about 1911.

More photos at https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/08/early-1900s-call-album-page-34.html

Today I'melebrating my 17th #Genealogy blogiversary! I've written hundreds and hundreds of blog posts about #FamilyHistory research, methodology, issues and concerns, brickwalls, breakthroughs, sharing with descendants, and more. I really appreciate connecting with readers & cousins through my blog!

Seems a good time to share my research about Taylor Swift's fascinating ancestors! #genealogy

https://smolenyak.medium.com/taylor-swifts-formidable-female-forebears-7862a19e6c28

Today's last #grandma recording I didn't finish (46 minutes, stopped after 11). I had transcribed another one before and this big recording is the most emotional one I have from her. She told me about a grave injustice, which she had never told anyone before. She cried and then apologized for crying. I'm so glad that I managed to push record in the middle of this.

#genealogy #newspapers #Georgia #BlackHistory

'The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce that it has completed the digitization of several historically significant Black-owned Georgia newspapers...'

https://blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu/?p=9351

Digital Library of Georgia: Black-Owned Georgia Newspapers Now Available Online. “The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce that it has completed the digitization of several historically significant Black-owned Georgia newspapers with partial funding assistance from the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/27/digital-library-of-georgia-black-owned-georgia-newspapers-now-available-online/

Genealogy Roundup, August 27 – Megan Smolenyak

Ellis Island – 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 I gave the police access to my DNA—and maybe some of yours – I believe I’m in the minority, but I find this attitude a little flippant.

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2025/08/27/genealogy-roundup-august-27-megan-smolenyak/

https://medium.com/@jeannetteaustin261/where-to-find-images-of-old-wills-estates-of-hardin-county-kentucky-38153c81bbf2
#genealogy #kentuckypioneers #stories #indian

Our Next Help Desk Day is on Monday 1st September 10.00am - 12pm at Conisbrough Library. You will be able to access Find My Past and Ancestry websites for free plus the 1921 census for free. Volunteers from the society will be on hand to help and advise you. Please remember your library card. It is open to anyone and it is free so do come along and bring a friend. #genealogy #familyhistory

So many exciting finds for my Pattersons vis FamilySearch today. Maiden names! Married names! Family whereabouts! #genealogy

It won't get any better today, so:

- managed to transcribe at least one chunk of #grandma recordings
- rediscovered the postcard https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Kaiserparade_1909_in_Karlsruhe-3 , while cleaning my closet. Somewhere on it, there's probably my great-grandfather. It was rather expensive for a postcard, so it would have been a pity, if it would have been lost for good
- disassembled a water tap, put some grease in it and put it back together. Guess what: still seems to work!!!

All photographs, scrapbooks, & albums in the Kennedy Family Collection have been digitized in full & are now accessible online through the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library’s digital archives.
Approximately 6,000 items document the life & times of the Kennedy & Fitzgerald families from 1878 through 1980.

Finding aids & container lists available at website.

#KennedyFamily #FitzgeraldFamily #PresidentialLibraries #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
@geneadons
@histodons

https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/kfc

Caused by disturbing events on #WikiTree, I didn't manage to transcribe a #grandma recording last week, so in need of catching up this week. Today's contained the story of my dad visiting grandma in her room and asking her to clean the baby (guess who?) because he simply couldn't (probably, because of the smell, oopsie). Another story mentioned the closet which grandma's grandma Marie #Schindler had received for her wedding, see
https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Schindler-1412-3

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
https://www.newsminer.com/eillis-island/image_6c829a2e-42be-4132-be14-bc955c72f28b.html

Elly #Mommer I only knew as the side note "That's Mr(s) Mommer from #Rostock" when #grandma described one of the photographs in her mother's album. After creating her profile some weeks ago I reached out to a local history group in Rostock. From there I instantly received pages of a book that had a short biography of her. With that, the story of the friendly woman on the photograph turned a lot darker:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mommer-147

Still working through my full-text-search treasures, inputting into Legacy. Finishing the McMasters of Nova Scotia; soon I’ll be starting the Pattersons of Ontario. #genealogy