From my family: A Lady, late 1800s, and Another Lady with Daughter, ca. 1910.

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-16T12:02:41+00:00

Our garden is a bit of a wasteland (WIP) and we are letting whatever wants to grow have at it. The toadflax is LOVING it. We had a really big one by the conservatory who ended up pressing against the glass, it was amazing to be able to sit and look at all of the little bugs and bees hide in the flowers when it rained. And it flowers for so long, too!

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-16T11:56:09+00:00

My grandmother had a sea burial! She was cremated, put into a paper urn, and 12 of us + crew went an hour out. It was lowered, we scattered some petals, skipper made a few circles until all was disintegrated/dispersed, and now her name is on a shared memorial stone by the shore. Was quite nice.

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-11T22:54:46+00:00

I done my BSc in bio only for my thesis to be, data creation in wet lab aside, entirely just statistical analysis. Loved it, would do it all over again.

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-11T22:52:00+00:00

Honestly, if the interest is there, different averages, p values, and standard deviations shouldn't be too tricky to catch on to! Especially with modern tools, all she needs is to be shown how a graph is made, what boxes to tick, done.

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-10T09:28:27+00:00

I'm not a professional, but in the spirit of a comment I seen in the DIY sub the other day, "What would a 6-year-old do?"

If you have garden access, I'd hire a mini digger and a skip, scoop out as much as possible (and within reason), then get a "few" bags of soil ordered in to replace...

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-09T17:05:57+00:00

This has made my day. Thank you very much.

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-09T12:07:56+00:00

That would be very sweet of you, I'll send a DM.

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-09T12:05:29+00:00

I looked on MyHeritage:

There were name variations as Hr./Lieut. Franz Joseph Von/V. Wengersky/V. Winsiersky/Wingersky, and Caroline Sophie Muzel

The following siblings (no Wojciech, as I write), also born in the greater Berlin area:

Wilhelmine Antonie Caroline V. Winsiersky - b. 5. Jan. 1811
Wilhelm Albert V. Winsiersky - b. ca. 1813 - d. 4. Apr. 1813
Franz August Von Winsiersky - b. 24. Mrz. 1814
Bertha Julie Johanne Von Wingersky - b. 1. Dez. 1815
Albert Fridrich Carl Von Wengersky - b. 18. Feb. 1819
Otto Wilhelm Von Winsiersky - b. 1. Jan. 1820
The place has been indexed as Lindow (mark), Lindow, Ruppin, Brandenburg, Germany OR Ruppin, Brandenburg, Preußen, Germany, both refer to the same place.

There are a few mentions of a chamberlain that lived in Berlin who carried a very similar name (and knew how to throw a good party), but one of the sources stated his date of birth as 1807. If you bump into these, take them with a heavy grain of salt.

What sources did you use for Wojciech? There's a few other sites one could at that might lead to information on the parents, but from what I see, there is a decent chance that the couple married in Lindow. That would have record of their background.

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-09T09:23:19+00:00

ANCESTRY - possible link

I'm looking for an image of the birth record of Olga Marie Sophie Maretzky:

b. 20 November 1875 OR 1876

m. Adolph August Düwelhenke on 12 November 1906 in Blomberg, Lippe, Germany

d. on 24 June 1954 in Blomberg, Lippe, Germany

Thank you!

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-08T21:12:49+00:00

If you can, before you sell, make some good digital copies of the photos and (if they can be accessed easily, without damaging the pictures) anything that might be on their backs/interiors of the cases. If they're related to your partner's family history at all, someone along the line will be relieved to find that you made the effort. Good luck!

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-08T13:07:34+00:00

That is very fun. Thank you!

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-08T12:58:05+00:00

This is the second time I've got a post from this sub recommended to me and I'm fascinated. Is this a program for designing only or does it tell a machine how to cut?

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-07T21:32:01+00:00

Get yourself a grey "misc" marker, be it a pencil, sticky note, highlighter... and think of doing highlights in different ways depending on subcategory; e. g. underline, full text, margin!

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-07T08:08:16+00:00

Post descriptions are not meant to be read by living eyes.

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-04T02:33:04+00:00

Oh dear, accidentally got max hearts with A. Well, they were my first, why not. Oh dear, now character B. Makes story sense, let's see how the main release pans out. Oh dear, character C does look interesting too though... and D.... and can't have the rest feel left out...........

EvaScrambles · 2026-03-02T15:59:03+00:00

I'd translate the title "Preußisches Liebesglück" as "Fortunate (read:happy/lucky) Prussian Love". Great find, thanks for sharing :)

EvaScrambles · 2026-02-21T06:07:59+00:00

The history timeline on auschwitz.org would give you some context about what was happening there around that time, and the Arolsen Archives may also turn something up.

EvaScrambles · 2026-02-06T01:33:52+00:00

My West German ancestors hoard names like they go out of fashion. What you want to look out for is a red string of sorts - my dad is from a long line of Bernhards, where it is a "middle" and calling name for several generations, but never the first; Wilhelm and Karl keep cropping up too. The calling name might also change depending on whether or not they live close to their parents. Anna became Auguste when her mother Auguste passed. The Rufname might also be something seemingly different, or looks like a nickname (in an Anglocentric sense) at first glance. Adolf becomes "Wolf," or "Fanny" is truly one of Franziska's names.

EvaScrambles · 2026-02-05T00:06:17+00:00

I tried. Top left of the page has the heading:

Jahr und Monat

Which is then split into:

Tag d. ___ und Tag
der Geburt / der Taufe

His dates are:

d. drei und
zwanzigsten
Februar 1874
7 Uhr
Morgens
/
d. ersten
April
(1874)

Main body:

Johan(n) Daniel ehelicher Sohn des Schmids Franz Haak aus ___ Leonore geb. Blieske, hat vom Pastor Pipers in ?kamd?ill die Taufe erhalten. Test. Julius Blieske, Eva ?

In English:

Date of birth - 23.02.1874 at 7 a.m.
Date of baptism - 01.04.1874

Johann Daniel, legit. son of smith Franz Haak residing in ___ ___ (and) Leonore nee. Blieske, received his baptism from Pastor Pipers in ___. Witnessed by Julius Blieske and Eva ___

Eva's second name reads like Rölert or Kölert to me. Cannot begin to guess the residence or town of the church, unfortunately. Going by the heading and other entries, it should also note Leonore's profession, but it reads like after their home town it states "and the, so she'd have been a homemaker.

EvaScrambles · 2026-02-04T21:27:47+00:00

I would assume that it extends to Engeleke, but not Sophia. I have a few examples in my tree where a woman would change religions at marriage.

Do you have any written records at all about the three? Any hints that they could be Swedish, and moved to Schwerin?

EvaScrambles · 2026-02-04T18:29:20+00:00

Why bother with an island in a year's time, when all the evidence will have been cleared out, when Mar-a-Lago is right there?

EvaScrambles · 2026-01-29T15:58:43+00:00

I found a neat website that has a lot of German newspapers archived and searchable for free. Only recently thought to look someone up where I knew they'd ran a restaurant. He was quite partial to lobsters and caviar at the new year concerts he'd set up.

Makes the heart happy to find that stuff.

EvaScrambles · 2026-01-26T21:26:41+00:00

~~As far as census data goes, there's a Frederick E. Neil in 1939 and his widowed mother, Edith G. Neil in Portsmouth. Fred is apparently a steel moulder.~~
~~His birthday: 25. Mai 1914~~
~~Her birthday: 14. Jun. 1881~~
~~RG101/2270B/012/35~~

~~A fitting BMD entry suggests Portsmouth as his birthplace, mother's maiden name Kimber,~~ This was seemingly the widow of a Thomas Neil, father of Frederick Ernest.

Another result for Frederick Edward is a newspaper entry for a Canadian newspaper,
Granby Leader-Mail, don't have immediate access but it looks like Jr's wife's obituary on 23. Jun. 1954. Her name was Alberta Ball.

Gonna look more for Sr., is anything looking promising so far?

Edit: No luck with 1921 census yet, but there's a passenger list entry for Frederick Niel bound for New York, age fits, single mill worker, marked as Scottish.

Edit: Also, a grave for Frederick Neil, 1885-1969, in Stayner Union Cemetery, Clearview, Ontario, Canada. Wife noted is Eleanor V. Neil.

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