#genealogist

[crafty-genealogist]

Howdy y'all! Today I thought I'd make a small zine about some of the free resources you can find on the internet to start your genealogy journey! Feel free to send me a direct message, ask, or email if you have any questions related to genealogy!

A one-page, foldable version of this zine is below the cut! Perfect for libraries, museums, and places of education!

[wandanatsbee]

OMG BEE!!! YOU ARE A FAMILY HISTORIAN?!!! Which countries do you specialise in?!!! I’m looking for someone to hire for my family in Australia!!!!

Hi lovely,

Yes, yes I am, I have the business and degree to prove it. I specialise in England, Scotland, Ireland and Australia! But if people want me to look into other countries then they can request.

So yes Australia is on the list!

Bee💛

[edensparty]

Byler not happening genuinely feels worse then it felt for me to find out that my ancestors (who I thought had a loving relationship) didn’t see each other for years because they didn’t like each other 😔

At least my ancestors non loving relationship made my 13th great grandmother rich (girlboss) but Byler not happening gives us NOTHING! NOT EVEN MILEVEN SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING??

(I ship both Byler and Mileven, because I just want them to be happy tbh.)

(I know I’m drawing strange parallels to real life here but I’m going insane, I can’t take it.)

[artbyraynichols]

NC artist and author. Baron of Sealand. Lord of Scotland. Lord Knight of the First Order. Doctor of Divinity. Master of Dungeons. Music Producer. Youtube creator.

[solvingyourmysteries]

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.

[heshefamilytree]

Great Grandparents and Sacrifice:

I finally found the graves of my great grandparents in Southern California. I have wanted to find them for many years. My great grandmother contracted Tuberculosis after taking care of her mother, who died from it. My great grandmother was placed in quarantine in a TB quarantine hospital for five years. My Grammie and Uncle Jack were ripped away from their mother and father, and placed in quarantine as well. Grammie went in as a five year old, and came out as a 10 year old and Uncle Jack as a 3 year old and came out when he was 8 years old. The doctor told my great grandfather that he needed to take my great grandmother west to a place that was less humid than Georgia so she could breathe easier. My great grandfather had run away from home at the age of 12 and went to Canada and lied about his age and joined WWI. They needed boys so badly (remember America was not in the War yet). He fought in this war from the age of 12 until it was over and he got out when he was 17 years old. He suffered from “shell shock” (which we call PTSD today). It took them two years driving in a coupe in the 1930s with the rumble seat which Grammie and Uncle Jack sat in with their little heads out in the air like a convertible to cross I-10 to get to the west. They lived in a tent off the road and would stop in towns along the way. Great Grandfather was a gifted pool player and card player and he would play pool and cards and win enough money to take the next leg of the journey until the money run out and then would do it again. This couple loved their lives in California and died quite young in their 50s. They had a good life once they got past these obstacles and enjoyed their family. The view in the cemetery where their stones sit is breathtaking.

[random-bookquotes]

DOD: According to this family tree, you’re a descendant of the bloodline of the last czar of Russia. ROMANOFF: Every Russian family line ends in a czar. That’s the only way the genealogist gets paid, sir.

Margaret Stohl, Black Widow: Forever Red

[likethesword]

A website, just trying to stop potential hackers: aha! The perfect solution! We'll ask them what their grandmother's maiden name is!

My mother, an amateur genealogist: you absolute fool