GeneaGeek

Passionate about #genealogy and history; ambivalent about exercise. Host of podcast ‘Geneageek’s Gems’ - sharing stories from people's ancestry.

[GeneaGeek @Geneageek]

If you’re into #genealogy and #familyhistory you might like my new podcast where I tell people interesting stories about their families https://t.co/2no49uqKyY

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@Whoamiftr Oh it’s horrible isn’t it! I always have to skim over anything that mentions animal cruelty as I’ve read too much horrible stuff 😢

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@Dave_Lifelines A born again Christian, perhaps? 😁

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A newspaper article titled, 'Alleged Outrage by a Walsall Man', led to the discovery of an interesting couple living in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire in the late 1800s. Were they really so outrageous? https://t.co/j1ILzqMgC2

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Breaking OUT of the Newcastle-under-Lyme Union Workhouse for the night...
and it sounds like he wasn't the only one doing it!
https://t.co/MJQNOpZPf4
#Newcastleunderlyme #Staffordshire #workhouses #History

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Great DNA/ethnicity analogy:

[Yvette Hoitink 🇳🇱🧬🌳 @yhoitink]

@sibsandnibs We're soup. We get a half a bowl from each parent. Some of us get more veggies, others get more meatballs. It's random.
Different kinds of soup were popular in different regions. By looking at the contents of our bowls, companies can predict where our ancestors came from.

[Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe]

Eat like a Tudor this Christmas and help an author pay her bills. Two good reasons to make this somebody’s stocking filler this year. 🎁🤗

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I've just seen residents of River Street in Brechin are being evacuated from their homes! The historical floodings of River Street and how they affected one particular family were discussed in the podcast episode, '107 River Street'.
https://t.co/tij1ryMhsW via @acast

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One of my convict ancestor's children was born in South Melbourne in the 1850s.
THIS is South Melbourne in the 1850s. 📷
Certainly provides some context to their story...
#convicts #AustralianHistory #goldrush #Melbourne #Victoria #History #SouthMelbourne #VictorianHistory

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@rapalje1625 @DLGenealogist 😮

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@ElizabethJBond @DLGenealogist I love how someone must have added the naturist bit as a joke and it stuck 😂

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@jahboeren Very interesting. I look forward to seeing if there’s anything about my family in the CABR files in 2025

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I’ve spent the last few days absorbed in the #AllAboutThatPlace event & gained some ideas for my own OPSs. Well done to all involved! @OnePlaceStudies @SocGenealogists @geneastories

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In 1863, a rural village in Essex made news all over the world after some of its inhabitants took part in a ‘witch trial’ of sorts. What happened that summer night at the Swan Inn in Sible Hedingham? Who was accused of practicing witchcraft and why? How would it all end?

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NEW Podcast Episode: The Sible Hedingham Witch

https://t.co/86JCmsW85W

#SibleHedingham #CastleHedingham #Ridgewell #EssexHistory #witchcraft #witchtrials

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@Historylady2013 I'm sure you're going through a whole RANGE of emotions. Best of luck!

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@Finaedel @HorribleSanity @_newspapers 😲

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The kettle is broken. Think of me at this trying time...

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Suffolk painter Thomas Gainsborough painted 'A View of Ipswich from Christchurch Park' c1748.
About 275 years later (May 2023), I took a photo from the same viewpoint (as close as I could).
#thomasgainsboroughart #ChristchurchMansion #Ipswich #Suffolk #thenandnow

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"EXTRAORDINARY CHASE AFTER A NAKED MADMAN.

EXCITING CHASE IN THE BLIZZARD.

THEY TRIED TO CLOTHE HIM, BUT HE STRUGGLED VIOLENTLY"

- The Illustrated Police News, 5 January 1907, p4

#Wales #Ruabon #oldnewspapers #history #nakedmadman #madman #lunatic

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From the Birmingham Daily Gazette, 30 March 1870:

"Fatal Result of a Spree"

#Bloxwich #Walsall #Staffordshire #WestMidlands #oldnewspapers