Steam-cleaned carpets, dyed landscaping mulch, & cooked steak for mom and me.

Now, relax, watch pointless TV, & give back to those fallen or long deceased service members: I'm a citizen archivist for the Library of Congress.

Donating my time in transcribing Revolutionary War records. Honestly, this would be a dream job for me if there were such a thing that would pay the bills. #Boost

#Archivist #LibraryOfCongress #Library #Archival #Records #Transcriptionist #Genealogy #Genealogist

Walking around a local grocery store in #NewOrleans & I came across a huge stack of Poor Boy (Po Boy) bread. I absolutely grabbed one (#bread is life).

I found the name of original bakery owner: George H Leidenheimer from Germany.

What's a #genealogist to do on a rainy day in #NOLA (besides drink 😉)? Create a #WikiTree profile.

And just my luck, I happen to know a German that can help, @Flominator, until I saw which part of #Germany George came from. Drats 🫤

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leidenheimer-27

Anyone have experience with flatbed scanners? Looking for something above entry level, 11x17 capable, and has some speed to it. As a former high end drum scanner operator, I've been very spoiled in my lifetime. My little Epson v350 doesn’t cut it anymore. As the accidentally appointed family #genealogist, I am tasked routinely with scanning old photos and photo albums, some dating back to the late 1800s.

Looking for a faster better flatbed scanner.

#flatbed #scanner #scanning #genealogy

Quand je dis que je suis généalogiste professionnel, les gens s'imaginent tout de suite quelqu'un comme ça 😂

#généalogie
#genealogist
#genealogistepro

When you're on Ancestry, do you ever:
* Swear that someone else *must* have changed your tree (even though you know that's not possible)?

* Think that people are missing from your tree or that they "somehow" got disconnected from other people in your tree?

* Accept Hints from other people's trees, or maybe you used to do so, early on?

There's a good chance you have duplicates in your tree, and you might not even realize it.

A lot of Genealogists have been having problems with a glitch in Ancestry, where it creates duplicates of people already in their trees. Here's how to fix the problem now, in the easiest way possible, and how to avoid it in the future.

Do NOT delete the duplicates! This can mess up relationships in your tree, and cause you to lose sources & hint matches. Instead, try this…

#AncestryCom #FamilyTree #Research #Duplicates #Genealogist #Ancestry #Genealogy @geneadons #Geneadon #Geneadons #FamilyTrees

https://diggingintoyourfamilytree.wordpress.com/?p=294

@rodhilton

The video they put up as an example of a "Gold Mining Town in California" is so full of historical inaccuracies because it's taken from "Wild West" films, NOT from historically accurate photos & drawings. One #Genealogist YouTube account analyzed it and showed the countless errors. He was confused about why it put 1900's windows on 1860's buildings (the actual era of the Gold Rush), why there were so many buildings, a lack of signs, etc.

It's because their #Sora example video was based on Hollywood's "Spaghetti Western" movies, not on historical images. If you take it as coming from those, then what you see makes perfect sense.

Some of the mistakes the Sora people left in were embarrassing and should have been edited out-- several chimneys on each roof, horses without riders, pedestrians without heads, a two-legged horse, etc... It's actually a lousy example if you want to impress users. It shows how truly awful #AI can be.

#OpenAI #GenerativeAI

https://youtu.be/0MxBXQUmoZs?si=VRz-xv1VnVa0cR6f