Social Sunday (March) Topics from my timeline

What I share on social media is not always directly related genealogy. That said, I want to share with you, too, even if you don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook. So, here’s some of what’s caught my attention online in the last month.

• Immigrants have been ‘moving and mixing’ across Europe since ancient times, DNA research reveals at the Independent
• Cheddar Man: the first Britons were black, Natural History Museum DNA study reveals via the Telegraph
• The worth of the test – Is there value to taking a DNA test if you already know your ancestry? Judy G. Russell opines at the Legal Genealogist (My experience totally bears out her opinion!)
• Can a Genetic Relationship Be Proved by DNA Alone? by Karen Stanbary at The Board for Certification of Genealogists
• Chain Migration: What’s Changed? by Megan Smolenyak on Medium
• Massive Date Project Will Help People Identify Enslaved Ancestors at the Smithsonian Magazine
• And Slavery in America – Online Resources at the American Historical Association
• The Fallacy of Writing Your Family History by Amy Crow Johnson – It’ll never be complete, so just write
• Lancaster Online brought us Who Were the First Settlers to Lancaster County?
• And for fat Tuesday (aka Fasnacht), I found Pennsylvania Folkways: Fasnacht Day is rooted in spiritual traditions and farming on the Reading Eagle
• Fascinating American history with Finding North America’s list medieval city on arstechnica
• The Flu Pandemic of 1918, As Reported in 1918 from JSTOR Daily

Immigration has been a big topic lately. If you’re interested in the topic of family integration immigration, I recommend following #resistancegenealogy on Twitter. This research shows just how normal and widespread so-called chain migration is and always has been. It’s nearly impossible to examine an American’s family tree without finding examples. Take my Hockers, for instance, first Adam came in 1749, then George in 1751, then the rest of the family in 1752. And that’s only one instance from my family tree.

Tune in next month to see what I’ve found in the meantime.

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