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Be sure and save it to your hard drive, if you haven't already.
I did (the great-grandfather photo) but still haven't heard back from the person who added it-- I found her family tree and see no family connection to this ancestor or even to Georgia. I'm not going to post it to my Ancestry account where it might go viral and then turn out not to be him.
I've seen photos misattributed to people several times-- the last one I noticed was attached to the Ancestry profile of someone who died in 1906, standing in front of a 1950's car. Another was a photo claimed to be of my 3rd great-grandmother, dated 1909, when she was born in 1805 and died around 1860. At least a dozen people have copied it into their trees. I add notes to those photos mentioning the mistake but they don't get taken down.
"If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth"-- so true in genealogy.
I did (the great-grandfather photo) but still haven't heard back from the person who added it-- I found her family tree and see no family connection to this ancestor or even to Georgia. I'm not going to post it to my Ancestry account where it might go viral and then turn out not to be him.
I've seen photos misattributed to people several times-- the last one I noticed was attached to the Ancestry profile of someone who died in 1906, standing in front of a 1950's car. Another was a photo claimed to be of my 3rd great-grandmother, dated 1909, when she was born in 1805 and died around 1860. At least a dozen people have copied it into their trees. I add notes to those photos mentioning the mistake but they don't get taken down.
"If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth"-- so true in genealogy.
Amazing. Even with pictures too many people are that dumb. Makes me wonder about the future of our species.
Not sure any Salem, Mass. "witches" were burned. They were hanged or crushed under rocks. Morbid, it's true. Burning occurred in Great Britain and continental Europe. Never heard of it being done in North America.
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Whatever it was, I am related to judges and jurors involved in the trials.
Whatever it was, I am related to judges and jurors involved in the trials.
i recently discovered a 5 or 6 (forget which) great grand uncle was one of the justices in the witch trial of Grace Sherwood in Virginia. She survived the 'ducking' and was found to be a witch. She went to jail for several years, got out and lived to be 80.
i recently discovered a 5 or 6 (forget which) great grand uncle was one of the justices in the witch trial of Grace Sherwood in Virginia. She survived the 'ducking' and was found to be a witch. She went to jail for several years, got out and lived to be 80.
She's lucky she was jailed and allowed to live.
When I was younger, learning about the witch trials, I always felt like I was some how connected to it but I can't be since all of my family is in Hungary.
So far, the only branch of my family tree that has anyone in Mass is my son's grandmother but I haven't worked that line farther then the early 1800's.
When I was younger, learning about the witch trials, I always felt like I was some how connected to it but I can't be since all of my family is in Hungary.
So far, the only branch of my family tree that has anyone in Mass is my son's grandmother but I haven't worked that line farther then the early 1800's.
Except that was in Virginia, 1706 I think. I had not realized that there were witch trials in Virginia.
Except that was in Virginia, 1706 I think. I had not realized that there were witch trials in Virginia.
There were also some in Connecticut that predated Salem, but the Salem Witch Trials tend to eclipse everything else. I am descended from people involved in the Connecticut trials.
i recently discovered a 5 or 6 (forget which) great grand uncle was one of the justices in the witch trial of Grace Sherwood in Virginia. She survived the 'ducking' and was found to be a witch. She went to jail for several years, got out and lived to be 80.
Wow. I love that. I bet we may be distantly related as well. My connection was with Henry Sewall.
My mother in law, who is 95 years old, recently found her birth family (through SIL's persistence). She was adopted at age five. She missed meeting her birth mother by TWELVE YEARS. Her mother was in her late 90's when she died. I guess longevity does run in the family.
MIL was the product of a teenage pregnancy. Her real mother had hoped to get her back, but MIL was eventually adopted by DH's battleaxe (non-biological) grandmother. She wasn't the warm, loving type (neither of our daughters ever got a birthday card or present from her). She was a Seventh Day Adventist religious fanatic who left her four million dollar estate to the SDA church. She left MIL zilch. She never liked me, personally, although I gave her gifts and decorated cakes on her birthdays and Mothers Day. The fact that I wasn't SDA was an extremely sore spot with her.
She wouldn't let MIL go to her high school graduation because it was on Saturday (their sabbath). She wasn't allowed to read any fiction, or go see "Gone With The Wind" or any other movie, because that was a "sin". (DH and I rented it to show her when we got our first VCR). MIL would have had a happier upbringing, I think, had she been raised by her real mother.
MIL discovered she has half-siblings from her biological mother's later marriage. She's gotten close to a half-brother, who is about ten years younger. They call each other weekly. From what I heard, they aren't very "religious".
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I add notes to those photos mentioning the mistake but they don't get taken down.
