Highlight of today's #grandma recording for sure was the farmer living next to the house, she had bought later in her life and the story, a neighbor had told her about him: During the sermon in church, he reportedly got out cotton swabs ("Ohrenstäbchen") and started cleaning his ears. After that […]

Couldn't sleep anymore and took the chance to document one of the Polish forced laborers, who used to work for my great-grandfathers brother Joseph #steurenthaler. Meet Marianna Pióro: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pióro-7 I really like, how one can link people on #wikitree with each other […]

I spent the bigger part of this morning trying to make sense of the contradicting sources around the origin of the family of priest Heinrich #bank, who at one point simply called himself #von_bank. The origin of his ancestors either was from the #vorarlberg area or from the #breslau area (less […]

ZDF #magazinroyale zum Rechtsruck an Schulen, enthält auch argumentative Hilfe für Lehrer, um sich zu wehren, daher nochmal explizit fürs #fedilz: https://www.zdf.de/play/shows/zdf-magazin-royale-102/zdf-magazin-royale-vom-19-september-2025-100 #wegpimmeln

I think, I finally managed to separate Mathias Klingele https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Klingele-21 from Matthias Klingele https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Klingle-10 and from Mathias Klingele https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Klingele-68 . What a mess! #donaueschingen #wisconsin #wikitree #todtnau […]

Today’s 3 good things: - had online tea with my mom today and she gave me some very much needed words of love and affirmation - went on a spontaneous neighborhood walk with my partner and we laughed a lot along the way - I think I have made in-person friends with another grown up (this seems […]

I just finished the final episode of #outlander. The ending is shocking, but it doesn't leave me as angry as the end of #lost did.

Fediverse! I need some help! I have a fellowship to go to Aotearoa New Zealand for a few weeks, and also an offer of an additional fellowship to give lectures around NZ. This is INCREDIBLY EXCITING!! ...but I have a lot of animals! And it's going to be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Belated #3goodthings - (yet another) new laptop battery arrived and I managed to install it via YouTube, although the cable was rigid and twisted. I was glad that I remembered to order the correct torx 5 screwdriver together with it. - our new mattresses (and the things for below) came and I had […]

Hattest du nicht vor einiger nach positiven Taten der Regierung gefragt, @sven? Via @inkorrupt und @lobingera erfuhr ich gerade hiervon. Das wäre vermutlich ein Kandidat: https://www.finanzwende.de/presse/pressestatement-zum-kabinettsbeschluss-der-verlaengerten-aufbewahrungsfristen ( via […]

#grandma also talked about her old lodger, who they received with renting a farm house, since he had the right to live there. He was a unique character and she really appreciated him. He asked her, if she would do a trip with him back to his home-town (she had a car), which they did. There she […]

Today's first #grandma recording was from April 2020, the early days of the #covid19 pandemic. She had strong doubts, that it would be over until May and I told her about our life with working from home and going shopping with a mask, avoiding contact to people. Back then, we also had the […]

I'm a little impressed by **how** decentralised the Fediverse is. On the Mastodon server genealogie.social, I see about 170,000 accounts from the Fediverse. These come from over 11,000 (eleven thousand) different domains (roughly = servers). mastodon.social is of course the largest, but only […]

#rhino loves House of the Rising Sun https://youtube.com/shorts/WxqD_5moZ5U

#dataretention: There also is an English guide from @edri which helps you to fill in the EU citizen consultation against extension of the current rules (possible until September, 12th). You will either need a free EU account or can log in via Google and Facebook (lol?). Then you can invest a few […]

Yesterday's #grandma recording was mainly about handling manure and slurry back then, before tractors etc. The horses had a two hour lunch break. She also told that her family used to eat a wild plant together with potato salad. Later, she thought, she also found that plant and made salad from […]

Weil alle Netflix-Kanäle belegt waren, habe ich vor lauter Verzweiflung in der #zdfmediathek die Vampirserie #lovesucks angefangen. Klar, waren viele Elemente der Handlung schon mal da, aber deren Kombination ist teilweise durchaus kreativ und macht die ganze Sache durchaus bingebar. #zdf #serie

The tracking of the #hermes package, which I sent on Monday, slowly starts to feel like it might turn out as some kind of boomerang 😔

Golden rule of doing #Genealogy phone calls to people, who won't know you: always do another call to someone else, when you have an unpleasant call. I must have overran the poor old lady with explaining to her that I'm the grandchild of the widow of her late husband's mother's brother, since she […]

#Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Der @ccc.de#vorratsdatenspeicherunghat einen Ratgeber veröffentlicht, der hilft, noch bis 12. September den Fragebogen der EU zur Bürgerkonsultation auszufüllen. Man muss sich ein Konto bei der EU anlegen oder sich mit Facebook oder Google einloggen (LOL?), um dann den Fragebogen auszufüllen […]

So help me, I laughed #shitpost #meme #distractedboyfriend

Trying out a new deodorant while having a presence-day in the office might not have been that smart. Now I'm stressed and sweating that it might not work all day 😂

My South African cousin recently sent me photographs from potential #haiss or #haisz family members recorded in #birmingham, #blackpool and #london. I've been able to find information on some of the photographers, but would really appreciate additional clues and suggestions about the missing […]

Hat jemand Erfahrungen mit #vinted? Macht man das normalerweise per DM und PayPal oder offiziell über deren System? Kann es sein, dass das Preisniveau niedriger ist als bei #kleinanzeigen, zumindest bei Kleidung? #pleaseboost

Across Europe, when centrist parties have adopted far right themes and sought to appease far right voters, they go down in flames. Why? Because: 1. They alienate their own base. 2. They tell other voters that the far right is correct. The determination not to learn this lesson is a wonder to behold.

Between Lucy lawless and Gillian Anderson, how was anyone supposed to be straight

IT’S BASICALLY THE ONLY PLACE ON THE INTERNET THAT DOESN’T FUNCTION AS A CONFIRMATION BIAS MACHINE. https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

I just lost my #gro order virginity, I guess. Probably I should go back to bed, before I come up with other things to order. #Genealogy

My home feed didn't change for the last two hours, do we have a problem, @david?

Finished transcribing the very emotional #grandma recording from last week https://genealysis.social/@Flominator/115104608818891166 . AS it turns out, I also cried during it. I also hadn't recognized, that this meeting in person had happened on a morning at 9:30 AM after the last recording was […]

Parallel zur Essensvorbereitung habe ich mir in den letzten beiden Tagen diese Episode aus dem #Funkenflug-Podcast mit @a_koschinski und @EvaList zu #mastodon und dem #fediverse angehört. Es waren für mich keine großen Neuigkeiten enthalten, aber es war trotzdem schön, euch zuzuhören. Der Blick […]

We accidentally made sweet popcorn yesterday (which my family doesn't like, and apparently had bought accidentally). I bagged it this morning and offered it to the neighbor. She gladly took it and brought me some brownies in return. Somehow I feel guilty for leaving her with a bag of one day old […]

First day of work after three weeks of vacation. It will be an office day. What was I thinking???

Is there any software, preferably #opensource, that takes an audio file with a timestamp in the file name and will then show #jpg photographs with the #exif timestamp that fits the moment in the recording? #fedihelp #pleaseboost

#dataretention: There also is an English guide from @edri which helps you to fill in the EU citizen consultation against extension of the current rules (possible until September, 12th). You will either need a free EU account or can log in via Google and Facebook (lol?). Then you can invest a few […]

#Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Der @ccc.de#vorratsdatenspeicherunghat einen Ratgeber veröffentlicht, der hilft, noch bis 12. September den Fragebogen der EU zur Bürgerkonsultation auszufüllen. Man muss sich ein Konto bei der EU anlegen oder sich mit Facebook oder Google einloggen (LOL?), um dann den Fragebogen auszufüllen […]

Belated #3goodthings: - I got rid of two huge items the previous house owners left us (a candle and a vase, each about 50 cm). I used online classified ads (#kleinanzeigen) to offer them for free. A very warm woman picked them up with a bike (!) and gave me a package of #raffaello in return. - I […]

Seems like some people are having a hard time getting their head around the idea of "decentralized" and open source. Still I was surprised to see this piece on Yahoo Finance. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mastodon-says-doesn-t-means-155011286.html #mastodon #fediverse #ageverification

Hey Mastodon, ich brauche Eure Hilfe! Meine Frau hat heute im Laufe des Nachmittags in #ulm ein Tuch verloren. Gegen 13:00 hatte sie es noch. Wir sind dann von der Nordsee in der Hirschstraße zum Bahnhof gegangen und mit der Tram zum Westbad gefahren, aber von dort gleich wieder mit der Tram […]

Belated #3goodthings: - I visited the son of a cousin of #grandma - I was allowed to take an album of old postcards with me for scanning - I saw, touched and photographed the hand broom of my great-great grandmother (with her name on it) #threegoodthings #Genealogy

Kann man bei #kleinanzeigen und "ich komme 10/10:30" um 11:30 guten Gewissens mit dem nächsten Interessenten weitermachen?

Faschismus arbeitet immer nach dem gleichen Muster. Er beginnt mit Minderheiten, um das Zusammenleben zu destabilisieren, und weitet die Gewalt dann auf immer neue Gruppen aus: ⬇️

Does anyone know, why the website of @Database_Jews_German_Empire does not show up as validated, although there is a rel="me" link? #mastodon #fediverse #fedihelp

[violence against children] And talking about injustice: in the previous #grandma recording, she talked about her foster child. When his mother came to take him home, all the wooden clothes hangers from the closet were laying broken in the trash bin. The mother had beaten him with them. Grandma […]

Today's last #grandma recording I didn't finish (46 minutes, stopped after 11). I had transcribed another one before and this big recording is the most emotional one I have from her. She told me about a grave injustice, which she had never told anyone before. She cried and then apologized for […]

It won't get any better today, so: - managed to transcribe at least one chunk of #grandma recordings - rediscovered the postcard https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Kaiserparade_1909_in_Karlsruhe-3 , while cleaning my closet. Somewhere on it, there's probably my great-grandfather. It was rather […]

Caused by disturbing events on #wikitree, I didn't manage to transcribe a #grandma recording last week, so in need of catching up this week. Today's contained the story of my dad visiting grandma in her room and asking her to clean the baby (guess who?) because he simply couldn't (probably […]

#breakingbad is so unrealistic: There is a pile of money they can't count anymore and the wife still washes the dishes by hand.

Stahlwolle ist von Schafen die Metal hören.

Elly #mommer I only knew as the side note "That's Mr(s) Mommer from #rostock" when #grandma described one of the photographs in her mother's album. After creating her profile some weeks ago I reached out to a local history group in Rostock. From there I instantly received pages of a book that […]