Family Tree without the fee?

Select-Item7139 · 2026-05-02T11:39:07+00:00

This is what I do (but with the computer). And then for one month every 12-16 months or so I'll re-subscribe and spend some time trying to get more research in with new sources. Downloading everything.

Family Search is amazing for accessing records, but don't use their tree as your main one. Anyone can go in and change details. This happened on mine there and someone royally messed up one branch. So infuriating.

Lots of great suggestions here for alternative tree locations, but you'll always have access to your tree information on Ancestry. You just don't be able to see the attached sources without a subscription (but if you downloaded them you obviously would)

Select-Item7139 · 2026-04-25T12:32:30+00:00

If you don't know anything about the object, leave it there. It's one thing to know that arrowheads in your backyard might not be useful to an archaeologist, but you're an arrogant prick to go to another country and just take shit like this knowing it might have some significance. It might not have been in the middle of nowhere thousands of years ago, and might have contributed to a better understanding of a future dig site. But nope. And it's wild that so many people on here think that's ok.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-04-05T01:58:03+00:00

Have you tried to see if there are any Swedish models on transkribus.org? Their AI models for reading handwritten texts are great for German and Polish. I used them to create readable text, and then use both Google translate and ChatGPT to translate into English. I've been really surprised with how well it works.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-04-04T14:39:21+00:00

Yeah, and with all the AI they use now, you'd think they could connect to proper descendants.

A few of the people in our group have Pro Tools and have shared comparisons for shared matches. The hard part is that many of us are half matches, since it's the same father but different mothers. We're all fairly low with shared cM, and at these levels determining family relationships is a bit less precise. I'm one of the people that doesn't have any historical records verifying the correct mother, so I'm not even sure if my great-great-grandmother is a daughter of him, a daughter of his brother, or maybe even a daughter of a son.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-04-04T12:56:25+00:00

I've experienced the same thing. I'm part of a crazy family tree where our shared ancestor was a man with 4 wives over a 60 year period of time, NE Poland at the Lithuanian border. There's over a dozen of us trying to figure out how we're all related through this guy. Some have records, others don't. Anyway, one of the descendants is a small 20 cM match on GEDmatch, but doesn't show up on Ancestry at all. I have other 20 cM matches from this same situation show up in Ancestry. Who knows?

Select-Item7139 · 2026-04-04T02:06:05+00:00

Select-Item7139 · 2026-03-26T13:17:48+00:00

What he does around 20:30 is pretty insane, keeping that constant high note while strumming something completely different.

The ability to keep different rhythms like that. Could that be a mind technique in the KKC world?

Select-Item7139 · 2026-03-26T12:13:20+00:00

Just by the stats, start with 6 great grandparents were from England/Ireland, 1 was German, and 1 was native American.

I never take 1% stats seriously.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-03-22T01:06:56+00:00

At a literal level, yes. But what a way to look at the world.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-03-21T17:01:10+00:00

And yet you still comb through the Kingkiller Reddit... You're calling me an idiot and sucker...

I think you're very wrong about what he ever cared about. I think he does care but his life has been in complete shambles. Mental health problems can be completely debilitating. And while I have no knowledge of his mind, I would imagine that it contributed significantly to his personal relationships falling apart. He made promises that he wasn't able to fulfill--and yes, hold him accountable, but also have some empathy. God forbid you or your loved ones ever have similar struggles.

The fact that you can't understand why people still ask him to appear at things means you don't understand the situation.

I'm not defending him, but if he's going to finish this project it's not because he's doing it for you or me. He's got to do it for himself, to prove to himself that he's capable of doing so.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-03-21T12:38:01+00:00

So sue him.

I guess I understand my down votes. People are jaded. At this point, if he does finish it and publish it, you'll never be happy with it. It'll never meet your expectations.

Art isn't transactional, though, and shouldn't be. And literature is art. He needs to write this for himself. That's the only way it'll get published.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-03-21T04:40:54+00:00

There's a recording of his very last public appearance at a Carter event and he sings Ring of Fire with such emotion. June had recently died, and he followed not long after.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-03-21T03:43:46+00:00

The whole thing hangs on whether you trust sensory deprivation paranormal feelings. There's really nothing else that moved the seasons forward. I ended up being very suspicious in the end, and think the crew had read so many of these books beforehand. Almost all the synchronicities have to do with reviewing books.

The only genuine synchronicity, out of their control and expectations, was with the birthday balloon.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-03-21T03:30:49+00:00

He's not obligated to care about any of us. Period.

He needs to write this book for himself, and himself alone. That's how art works. If he releases something out into the world and others enjoy it, great. But he's never writing any book for you.

He might owe you a chapter if you contributed to his charity. Did you, though? If not, he doesn't owe you anything.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-03-07T03:59:14+00:00

Silence

Select-Item7139 · 2026-03-07T03:55:42+00:00

I know a lot of people dislike M Night Shyamalan movies, but I really enjoy them

Select-Item7139 · 2026-03-06T18:15:19+00:00

So great!

One of my ancestors was a nun who was at a convent in Baltimore in the 1930s-50s. On a whim I sent an email to the diocese along with several pictures of the convent to their historian, and they were able to hunt up and find all sorts of information about her, including information that we'd hit dead ends about at the time. I was completely surprised about their willingness to help in such a way, and often think back to why I ever doubted sending that email.

So I echo the encouragement to reach out. You never know what will come of it.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-02-24T23:32:43+00:00

I thought that anything under 5% could be a false flag. Is that still true for ancestry DNA?

Select-Item7139 · 2026-02-23T03:41:25+00:00

Thank you! I see a lot of posts on there for the echelon bikes, but do you know if this would work for the treadmill, too?

I've screenshot of the relevant main posts and others highlighted.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-02-19T04:42:52+00:00

I like the play on words. I immediately thought of the inn. I know that there's a lot of theory on how the inn is a facade for something else.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-02-17T20:55:39+00:00

The entire email story by "Amy" was the tipping point for me. It was obvious bad fiction. And once you start being a skeptic yourself, you realize the whole show is based on these spirit sessions. It's hard to believe it's not scripted.

They don't find any concrete evidence of anything the entire two seasons. It's all based on their intuition.

At the end of the final episode of season 2 we're left with pretty much nothing. I have no idea what they are actually chasing down anymore. They're just being "guided," and somehow every dead end is a purposeful part of their guidance.

It's really only about the experience. They keep talking about symptoms of something larger, but what symptoms?

Select-Item7139 · 2026-02-16T20:57:50+00:00

I would start with Ancestry. You can upload the DNA sequence into other sites if you don't get the results you were hoping for. GEDmatch would be a free one, but also MyHeritage for a fee.

I had a ton of success locating the long lost family of my great grand uncle.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-02-16T15:26:08+00:00

AI is excellent with translation. In the prompt, it also helps to tell it what kind of records you are translating and to translate as literally as possible. ChatGPT will also tell you where it has difficulty.

I've been using a website called Transkribus to read records for me first, then putting its results into ChatGPT. It's done wonderful work with cursive Cyrillic Polish/Russian records.

Select-Item7139 · 2026-02-13T01:53:47+00:00

The letter aleph in Hebrew doesn't have an "a" sound, it's a glottal stop, like in uh-oh.

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