@GraveyardSnoop in my genealogy classes people are often syrprised to learn that consistent soelling of surnames is fairly recent. 16c documents can have 4 or more spellungs of tge same surnane on one parchment. #surnames#genealogy@genealogy
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What's the largest number of people with identical names you've ever come across in one household?
I've just found a census record in which Margaret Rankin is living with her husband, her sister-in-law Margaret Rankin and several children, including another Margaret Rankin. It must've been a confusing household!
#geneadons#genealogy@genealogy I teach a genealogy class twice a month at the lical senior center. Yesterday made my day. One of my attendees announced she was leaving for Denmark in 3 days to visit the locations of her ancestors. She saud I was the reason as I helped her to find them. That's what its all about. (I think she's in her 80's!) It's never too late to get started with #familyhistory
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Johannes Nepomucenus Kottal was born on 4 May 1763 in Albrechtsried, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). My Kottal ancestors lived nearby, so there could be a familial connection.
At age 17, I began a #OneNameStudy on the surname Kottal but I had no idea how to approach such a study then, so the task was too overwhelming. Now I am starting over. The first step is to sort all my old notes, which I have luckily kept.
Been researching some distant cousins again today. The occupations on the censuses are predictable as always: coal miner, coal miner, coal miner, coal miner, professional footballer for Manchester City, coal miner, coal miner... #genealogy#geneadons#FamilyHistory@genealogy@geneadons