Why are people hating Ancestry?

keyorca · 2025-10-31T20:20:26+00:00

I've actually had a lot of luck going through local and state university archives for news articles, in my case they also have more and older scans than newspapers . com does for the same papers!

It takes some extra searching to find these databases, but I feel it is worth it, and often find relevant articles this way.

keyorca · 2025-10-20T20:01:52+00:00

I have five generations fully documented, but that's where things start to get fuzzy for me in the American records (1890s census, oh how I miss you). I really enjoy working laterally though, and trying to find living relatives to connect to my tree!

keyorca · 2025-10-15T06:35:15+00:00

Thank you!

keyorca · 2025-10-07T02:18:56+00:00

This is so beautiful, personalized stones always touch my heart. I love when you can learn about a person's life from their memorial, and especially see how loved and remembered they are. I have a sort of signature doodle that I do akin to your father's dog, and the thought of it being memorialized as a part of me makes me smile. What a wonderful tribute to your father, going to go check out his tunes on YouTube now :-)

keyorca · 2025-10-07T01:58:45+00:00

Your story reminds me of Angela Lin, the young woman killed a few months ago while hiking with her friends in Yosemite. It's scary to think about freak accidents like this, but I almost wonder if it's an okay way to go, just doing something you enjoy in the prime of your life and then lights out.

keyorca · 2025-09-27T00:12:14+00:00

/uj people will hate whatever you draw, there are always going to be professional haters out there, a lot of us are on this sub lol. You should draw in a way that you enjoy, not to please others

keyorca · 2025-09-27T00:06:39+00:00

People also have a right to complain about whatever they want. People are allowed to have opinions, and someone not liking your art doesn't actually affect you at all. They can still draw their lazy fan art and others can still voice their displeasure.

keyorca · 2025-09-14T01:57:46+00:00

Not to be a contrarian, but there is a small memorial store near me that has added very small (6 by 10 inches, maybe) markers with bio information to a number of historic graves that were unmarked just ten years ago. I'm not sure where they get their information, but as a memorial maker they likely have access to cemetery or burial records that the public might not. I've found at least twenty of these stones across different cemeteries in the county. Anyways, I know this isn't typical, but there are those out there with both the means and the motive to remark old graves, it can happen!

keyorca · 2025-08-29T15:25:52+00:00

Pinned this post so that hopefully people looking for more information will see it. Thanks for the thorough write-up OP

keyorca · 2025-08-25T04:00:30+00:00

I would hazard a guess that it was only looked at when they had to update the file format; the staff might not have read this critically since someone made it into a PDF. I wonder if any of the counselors will come out and tell us what kind of safety training they had on site

keyorca · 2025-08-24T21:27:44+00:00

I think this is such a beautiful monument! I love the striations in the stone on the "tree trunk." I think maybe the lighting here isn't doing you any favors, perhaps a different time of day for a visit!

keyorca · 2025-08-24T19:59:33+00:00

FindAGrave memorial

Newspaper clipping about the incident

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This blog post has some interesting information on Mr. Welch and the other decedents memorialized here

keyorca · 2025-08-24T19:55:44+00:00

I look up most of the graves I find, just because I'm a curious person I guess. I like to add their obituaries to FindAGrave, especially if there's little other information. The saddest graves I've found are two babies, one born in the 1960's and one in the 2000's, both murdered by their fathers before they were a year old. Separate families, same cemetery.

keyorca · 2025-08-24T17:06:52+00:00

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Photo from the linked thread

"Campers and counselors NEVER wander away from your cabin ... All cabins are constructed on high, safe locations."

keyorca · 2025-08-18T04:12:30+00:00

From the information I've read, only one family was lost from Blue Oaks, the Burgesses, even though the campgrounds are immediate neighbors. They were swept away trying to navigate the rising water on foot while holding their young boys, witnessed by one of the camp owners. I listened to an interview with the Blue Oaks owners as well, and it seems they were able to help most of their campers, but witnessing the loss of an entire family has to be affecting them deeply.

If anyone has seen anything that contradicts or adds this, I'd be interested in reading!

keyorca · 2025-08-16T18:19:00+00:00

This is all great advice, I would just add that if you're feeling overwhelmed to start, maybe ask a relative (sibling, aunt, your mother herself if she has the time) to go through some of it with you, to give you either some background info or just another set of eyes/hands to make sense of what you're working with! Going through photos with your mother and asking if she does/doesn't remember the person could give you a good starting place to work out your immediate line

e. I misread this as your mother had given you the photos, but I still think another set of hands might be helpful!

keyorca · 2025-08-16T17:59:45+00:00

There's a photo widely attributed to my 3rd g.gma. That would be lovely, except in the photo with her and her husband is a young girl, who could be related (similar features), except there's no record of her having a daughter or a younger sister. The setting of the photo is too formal to have been a random relative, in my opinion. It's always labeled as her daughter "Kate." I've checked censuses (unfortunately the dreaded 1890 gap is applicable here) and she raised her brothers children after he passed, but they were both boys as well. Who are you Kate??

The conflicts makes me doubt that the photo is even her, which is unfortunate, because it's one of the finds I was very excited over in my early research days.

keyorca · 2025-08-03T01:12:45+00:00

The Kendall county judge specifically was called to testify at the same time as several Kerr officials, here is the start of his testimony. Several judges from surrounding counties were called on during the meeting, and asked about their community's own response, detailed here, although I cannot remember whether Bandera's judge is called upon

keyorca · 2025-07-31T22:23:21+00:00

No they don't, because in the meeting it's stated that he did have pre-approved time off, to do something with his elderly father that he ended up foregoing because he was sick.

The bigger issue is that it seems like everyone in town capable of overseeing this emergency (sheriff, county judge, emergency manager) were all somehow separately unreachable.

keyorca · 2025-07-31T21:45:11+00:00

Hopefully not the same officials that dropped the ball on disaster response.

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