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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 6h

It was the right certificate 😍. I now know the name of my 2C2R’s war bride, and quickly found the name/birth reg index for their war baby, who is 80 yrs old if he’s still living. It’s a shame phone books are a thing of the past, his also-80 1st cousin and I would love to get in touch. #genealogy

Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 18h

YOU GUYS. My morning USPS “informed delivery” email has an envelope that looks like it’s probably from the UK! Hopefully today’s mail carrier will visit this afternoon instead of after dark — and it’s the record I’m looking for.
#genealogy

Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 15d

Update: the GRO apparently cannot update a search in progress, so I had to wait for them to complete and partially refund me for “not found,” and then initiate a new search, which I did. The estimated fulfillment date for my revised search was today.
#genealogy #ancestryhour #genhour
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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 7h

uh 5th inning stretch?!

Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 11h

OMG you named them Centimorgan 😍

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 15h

I guess it takes a special kind of weirdo to look forward to more homework as a result of completing a task

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks! if it’s the right one, the next step will be trying to identify their baby.

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 16h

This potentially explains a lot about how inflexible the request process was. I really hope they found the correct one.

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 16h

😆 OK but why?! I am 99% confident it’s a marriage certificate fulfillment by the UK GRO.

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 17h

Although I already have questions. Shouldn’t this be, you know, Royal Mail or something?

MALTAPOST FLC
1 POSTAGE PAID
Victoria
MALTA
8100

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 17h

What a great post! When I found my Meath grandfather in the 1922 Army census, a cousin in Ireland commented that he must have been pro-treaty, but I didn’t come to that conclusion. I’d love to go deeper into his involvement, and you’ve given me some excellent ideas.

Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 18h

YOU GUYS. My morning USPS “informed delivery” email has an envelope that looks like it’s probably from the UK! Hopefully today’s mail carrier will visit this afternoon instead of after dark — and it’s the record I’m looking for.
#genealogy

Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 15d

Update: the GRO apparently cannot update a search in progress, so I had to wait for them to complete and partially refund me for “not found,” and then initiate a new search, which I did. The estimated fulfillment date for my revised search was today.
#genealogy #ancestryhour #genhour
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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · Aug 26

Greetings, #AncestryHour. for those of you following my mystery World War II marriage puzzle, I finally just decided to request a search. Waiting to hear back from the UK GRO about some modifications I requested to the search after submitting the form.

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of a chef with a toothpick in his mouth is being played at 4:32 / 4.57

ALT: a cartoon of a chef with a toothpick in his mouth is being played at 4:32 / 4.57

media.tenor.com

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 1d

Holy cow, Canada 😆 #mlb #bluejays #worldseries

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 1d

brb moving to Tipperary

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 1d

brb moving to Tipperary

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2d

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck to #speirgorm on a good outcome of today’s elections, and may the photos of Misneach continue. #Aras25

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I haven’t nearly solved it yet 😆 and I’m definitely making up this problem-solving approach as I go along, but hopefully it’ll help at least one of us!

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 2d

I brought my LDL cholesterol down 20 mg/DL in the last year partly by paying more attention to/limiting saturated fat and this makes me feel stabby. metaphorically speaking, of course

Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 2d

My cousin’s tests are also only at FamilyTreeDNA - I ran the custom clustering on Ancestry using the highest cM match my mom has who’s descended from the 3GG’s family or origin. So if you have some groups of matches on Ancestry you’ve identified as likely from your grandfather’s origins…

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 2d

Ancestry’s new custom clustering may help with it.

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 2d

Good luck! even when I have my list of potential mothers, I have the problem of the same families heavily intermarrying between New France settlement and now.

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 2d

(I also registered my cousin, mom, and self with the appropriate research project, letting them know my current findings)

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 2d

I looked through my cousin’s mtDNA matches for some atDNA matches with a basic tree and built a quick and dirty matrilineal tree for each that took me to Marguerite.

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 2d

Since one of my 2d cousins who is a matrilineal descendent graciously agreed to take an MTDNA test, I have her halogroup/hypothetical matrilineal French immigrant , and now I am trying to generate a list of women of child bearing age who were living matrilineal descendants at that time.

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Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social · 2d

I spent quite a long time looking for the documentary evidence, which should exist given where she was born and when (Quebec, Canada, most likely Cap Santé, ca 1798). I believe she was baptized “parents inconnus”

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