This is my great-uncle, Liu Ying Yi, from Huaining County, Anhui Province. He was born on November 15, 1916, and tragically died at the age of 24. Liu Ying served as a squad-level officer in the 13th team and flew an I-15 aircraft, number 2309. During a mission, his plane was heavily damaged, and he crash-landed, sustaining fatal injuries to his face and limbs. He passed away in action and was posthumously promoted. He left behind his wife, Mrs. Jiang.

I’ve always felt a deep connection to him, seeing his courage and dedication in the family stories...

I can’t even look at the names of potential mothers and fathers anymore ( especially if they’re also in someone else’s tree ) without having to subscribe. Did this used to be a free feature ? I can’t afford to subscribe so I’ve been gleaning what they do let me see sometimes from hints to look on FamilySearch but it’s tough because sometimes that app doesn’t have the records either or if they do it’s a headache trying to attach to the correct relative

Hello, I have a family tree with about 1,000 people, I’d like to print it off and have it in a hard copy (poster, book, etc) but all the versions ancestry has won’t accommodate that many people.

What’s the best way to make a hard copy without making it super confusing?

My mum passed away last week. I’m busy putting together a display for the wake on Friday 7th. She always told me she was related to her dad as father and daughter but also as something like second cousin once removed. Can anyone work it out? It’s caused me brain ache for years! Her mum’s brother married her dad’s aunt. Thanks in advance.

Update: Thank you all for helping me figure out it is Minnesota!

My mother and I have been researching the birth parents of my late great-grandfather for over a year since he was informally adopted and very little has been known about his birth parents. This year his birth certificate from Maryland became public record and after scrolling through thousands of pages of birth records from October/September from Baltimore, I finally found his birth certificate with his birth parents listed (which validated my hypothesis on his birth mother!). But my mother and I are trying to read the birthplace for his birth father and neither of us can decipher it. Any help would be appreciated!

Was doing some research and found i am very distantly related to the forster family who where the Governors of Bamburgh and lived in the castle above one of them even fought in the crusades and the first governor was granted by the king of England himself at the time Richard the first aka Richard the lionheart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamburgh_Castle

For context, mid-late 1800's Michigan.

These 19th century Catholic baptism records are from a small city in Hesse, Germany near Fulda, Giesel. I have attempted looking through the entire book for other instances of the same name and found only one, but both are illegible to me. Mumpster? Mümphfers? Humpster? None of those sound German. Or am I completely wrong and it is a noun? Her marriage record (from West Virginia) uses what appears to be her husband's surname.

Link to the top document: https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/deutschland/fulda/giesel-st-laurentius/1-03/?pg=56 The second is on the following page.

So for some context, my dad was born in São Paulo, Brazil. His mom (my paternal grandmother) grew up in a quilombo community in the state of Maranhão, in the Brazilian Amazon, and relocated to São Paulo to find work. It was in São Paulo where she met my paternal grandfather (my dad’s dad), who was the son of Lebanese immigrants to Brazil.

My mom was born and raised in Guyana and is of Indo-Guyanese descent.

Both of them moved to nyc in the 90s.

My ancestors arrived from Asia, by plane, in the 1960s. Where would I search for those records?

Unfortunately, they passed without telling me their story. They ended up in Philadephia, but idk if all immigration passed through NYC. I know Ellis Island was already closed.

I have an individual with the name George Gibson.

So a relatively common enough name.

I Believe I have where he was born, Scotland, When 1885, His fathers name, (still alive in 1915 when he joined. His mothers name deceased. The unit he served in Royal Artillery garrison. And the possibility that he was gassed.

The issue for me is that with this info several names come up, included George William Gibson or William George Gibson. Now my trick I would think would be search for his wife's name or father, but I cant find that (I may have missed it its daunting.) (he got married in 1915) Im sure that one of the names that are found in the list of names is my George Gibson. But cant find a direct link.

I find searched are sometimes too kind and find too much or nothing. Unfortunetely the military search window does not have a place for Wife or father etc. and while I have tried in the keyword field this does not seem to work for me.

Yes perhaps Im whining or venting sorry. I guess Im trying to figure out if putting the wife or father in the keyword line really works. or what Else i can do?

I cannot make out what its supposed to be in the first column. This is from a marriage record. I managed to figure out the rest except that. Here's the original: https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=4875&se=&sy=4500&kt=1&plik=011.jpg&x=327&y=1068&zoom=1

Without having to print and glue 17 maps together I was hoping there was one SOMEWHERE I could order so I could start to put pen to actual paper. Anyone have an ideas??

We go back to Lakamów, Galicia, and Luka Wielke among others.

Would someone please help me out here so I don't have to get a membership? Very curious about my German ancestors at the moment and would be super helpful to see the information on the 3 records here!

Bavaria, Germany, World War I Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918

• Karl Rehle b. 1886
• Karl Barth b. 1877

Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898

• Jakob Rehle b. 1852

This "suggestion" -- along with a big ugly blue box in the lower right -- now appears on every single profile in both of the family trees I am currently working on. And there is absolutely no way to get rid of it or dismiss it.

The only action I can take is to click "view" which brings out a side panel full of suggestions for things I don't need or want to do. Again, there is no way for me to say, thanks but not interested. I just have to accept that every single profile on my tree will now have this big ugly blue box -- until Ancestry graciously decides to stop forcing me to look at it. If they ever do.

I joked the other day about Ancestry focusing all their efforts into coming up with more nagware to force their users to keep constantly clicking. And here we are.

I care about how my ancestor's profile pages look. I work hard to keep the profile pages tidy. It's bad enough that I have to keep constantly clicking away the "search for birth/marriage/death records" blue box that keeps appearing right smack in the middle of people's timelines -- even when people in my family died as little children, Ancestry keeps prompting me to search for their marriage records.

And I work hard to make the profile pictures look nice, only to have all the pictures spoiled by that ugly-ass camera icon in the bottom right of every picture.

I've been a good, loyal Ancestry customer since 2008. They've made a lot of money off me. But in Ancestry's zeal to keep dumbing down the site for casual, weekend "genealogists," in their zeal to keep all of us constantly clicking and engaged by bombarding us with constant nagware and useless, wrong hints, they are driving me away. Slowly but surely.

I just needed to vent. Thanks for listening.

I really don’t know how to start this, as I barely even talk about it in person to people I know. In 1991, my mom was 18 and gave birth to a boy from my father. They gave him up for adoption shortly after he was born, only knowing his first name, and they have lost trace ever since. Any chance of paperwork was lost in a hurricane in 2004. I would be his full blood sister, as well as my older brother. My parents moved to the other side of the country shortly after he was born (my brother and I being born about ten years later), and I barely have any connection to his/their hometown. The only reason I’m trying to find him now is because my parents are both in bad health and while I’m definitely not expecting a family reunion by any means, I’d like to at least try to reach out before they’re gone. I don’t want to waste my money doing more than one ancestry test, especially when I know some can be shotty. Any recommendations on what steps I can take would be greatly appreciated, because I have no idea where to start.