Hello!

Sorry, I found this post, and was wondering. Do you know how to get the baby's name? Or was the annotation different?

https://www.tumblr.com/petermorwood/676099233232945152/salparadisewasright-irisharchaeology-love

The easy way would be to check the 1921 census and see what name the now ten-year-old daughter of that family was given.

At least it would be easy if the 1921 census was on-line, but it isn't. :-P

The Dark, Twisted, Inbred(???) World of Sailor Moon Fan-made Family Trees

For over thirty minutes I show you around the deep dark world of Sailor Moon fan lineages, like TMZ for anime. Did you know hair color can be patrilineal?

I genuinely love Sailor Moon fandom and every single Sailor Earth it has ever produced. All fandom wants is for two characters with the Tsukino last name to marry each other and if that takes skipping six generations then so be it, how else are we gonna pass down Sailor Cosmos's starseed?

random storytime bc im autistic about geneaology

family history on my dad's side of the family is weird. my (catholic) grandmother had a few customs that are like jewish mourning customs (shiva). there was another custom involving the red string that she had told me and my sister about when we were kids. her family is from germany, galway ireland, and moselle france. idk why she did it, but her sister said the mourning customs sound like something people "did in the past." mayhaps it's a whole anusim situation, since i did find a (unverified) connection on the french side to a tree on JewishGen.

then there's my grandfather, an only child who was orphaned (temporarily) as a child. his father was 9 years older than his mother, and seemed to have met her when she was a minor. they married when she was 19, and my grandpa was born when she was 20. she abandoned him and his father quickly after, and never got back in contact. he was taken care of by his aunt while his father was a soldier in WW2. his father remarried, so he had step siblings.

...but my dad has a half first cousin match on ancestry... meaning my grandfather has/had a half sibling out there somewhere (potentially, a brother who's 2 years younger than him and died in 2012). normal people would just go message my dad's cousin and ask about it. will i do that? not yet. i'm gonna sleuth on my own, cause this may actually be something i can figure out... unlike my grandmother's customs.

i wrote an entire account of my Appalachian family, tracing from the late 1600s to my great-grandma’s passing in 2016. it was one of the hardest things i’ve ever done on multiple levels but also one of the most, if not THE most, rewarding projects i’ve ever completed.

my family is Melungeon but i’ve found that our ancestors had more Jewish blood (and possibly Romanichal blood based on the given names they had that were common among Romany in the 19th century i.e. Luvenia, Herod and Aquilla, and how some of them moved back and forth a lot in short timespans, but i’m not sure) than the Black and Native DNA that people think of when they think “Melungeon”, though i’m possibly descended from a Pamunkey chief, Totopotomoi, a long way back. our family has constantly intermarried with the Sizemores and gosh that makes me feel like i have a connection to royalty!

i got a very tiny amount of West African on my 23AndMe test and my dad took a MyHeritage test and got back Balkan. but the African results I got are really confusing bcuz it didn’t say anything specific, just “African Hunter-Gatherer”.

i know it sounds weird talking about tiny bits of African DNA i have but for context for those who don’t know much or anything about Melungeons, our identity isn’t as much about the non-white blood we have, but rather about how our ancestors formed tight-knit, insular communities because of how they were discriminated against and from there they formed their own unique culture that’s trickled down to us. a lot of us today are phenotypically “White” and therefore have white privilege and yet at the end of the day, race is and has always been a social construct and we still have legitimate spiritual connections to our ancestors.

my grandma says she’s going to take me on a road trip to see my relatives in Ohio and our ancestral state of Kentucky and i’m SOOOO excited. i’m genuinely stoked.

I decided to start using Tumblr. I will introduce myself soon.

~Just Jewish Things~

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The Chitimacha language of Louisiana has two family terms that, as best I can tell, refer to any female relative on one's mother's/father's side respectively that isn't a grandparent:

qamq /ʔamˀ/ = paternal female relative

koq /koʔ/ = maternal female relative

So this includes the following:

aunt

grand-aunt

female first cousin

female first cousin once removed (in either direction: either the child of one's first cousin, or the cousin of one's parent)

None of this is certain, because the speakers that linguist Morris Swadesh worked with in the 1930s (Benjamin Paul and Delphine DuCloux) didn't remember all the family terminology well, but it's my best analysis given the materials I've gone through so far.

My most recent custom project for a new customer!

The project was to find a connection between their family and that of a fiction writer who lived in the early 1900s: Clark Ashton Smith.

Smith’s mother’s maiden name was Gaylord, a prominent surname in colonial America. This customer was interested in knowing if there was any familial relation between their Gaylord family and that of Smith’s Gaylord family. After researching each Gaylord line, through generations of records such as baptisms and census records, the answer was found. Indeed there was a connection between Clark Ashton Smith and my customer, although their most recent common ancestor was born approx. 1585 in England.

Clark Ashton Smith was known as a well reviewed published poet from 1912–1925. From 1926 to 1935 he published about 100 weird fiction short stories in Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. He's best remembered for these stories today. He was a friend and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft.

Livin for the fact that I just realized we are related to the person that “Rollo” from the tv show. Vikings, is based off of……and then, if you move shows, we’re also linked to Mary, Queen of Scots, from Reign.

curse genealogy sites and their paywalls. I'm just trying to see an article in a newspaper from 1933, not pay them my entire paycheck.

Unforeseen consequences of tracing my friend’s family tree for him: becoming lowkey obsessed with the cool people I keep finding in their tree

Hi so today I learned from my mom, who has been doing family genealogy for both her and my dad’s family trees for some years now as a hobby, that on her side we have some Jewish ancestors from somewhere in Germany, many generations back(I am not sure of the exact number, I would have to ask her for more info). We know that they were Jewish because the records for them that she found are synagogue records.

It is probably not an unbroken maternal line, so by the heritability rules of Judaism, I am probably not officially Jewish. But there is some Jewish ancestry there and that is pretty cool I think.

Finally found some of that family drama people warn you about. Apparently my 1st cousin 3x removed divorced his first wife (still figuring out who that was) to marry his mistress when she got pregnant. Guessing that didn’t go over well with the Catholics since he’s listed as living with his MIL in the 1920 census. 

The first Hawaiians In Tech hackathon, in partnership with Purple Mai‘a. The challenge: Hawaiian genealogy research. #hawaiiansintech #hawaiians #hawaiian #kanaka #kanakamaoli #purplemaia #halauinana #geneaology #hackathon (at Hālau ‘Īnana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg1Ic6duPt5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

more of my ancestors

My half great uncles Owen and Leon Jaynes. The shorter one is Leon. I was told that he became a professional boxer. He died a long time before I was born. Owen died when I was a baby.