HeyJaredX-Factored - family stories
Scottish-German artist, writer, gardener, actress. presently unemployed, almost a pensioner but not quite. Used to be a nuclear disarmament campaigner but taking at least a year off from political activity to get my head straight and my body healthy.
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Discovery of a Data Doctor (opens the original)
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I’ve been neglecting my own family lately in favour of the larger, worldwide family. If you read my last post you will know that I completed the “Orphan Trail 1” of the England Project. My Trailblazer suggested I might join the “Data Doctors” who pick through the unsourced and incorrect profiles on Wikitree, removing “Gedcom junk”, adding dates, sources and generally improving profiles.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s2UY!,f_auto,q_auto
Life on the Orphan Trail (opens the original)
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My family tree is private. There’s a lot of hypotheses and unverified ideas on there that I’m still researching. A couple of years ago I decided it was time to go public. I didn’t want to use Family Search, as I had too often found mistakes or connections that were more or less guesses without sources. Don’t get me wrong, Family Search is great for getting started and for finding records, but it is just not accurate across the board.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://subs
The Couldery Family (opens the original)
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My fourth great grandaunt Lydia Frances Ruegg might be only distant family, but she certainly added some colour to the family tree when she gave birth to not one, but two artist sons: Horatio Henry and Bertram Allan. To be fair, she did not produce them alone: her husband Robert Hall Couldery was also an artist, though he started out as a butcher, like his father.Lydia and Robert married in 1829. She was the daughter of a Swiss emigré, Ulrich Ruegg, who ran a pub called the Sergeant’s Head in th
Live with Jennifer Jones (opens the original)
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A bit late to this, but here’s the recording of the conversation I had last Wednesday with Jennifer Jones for “Behind the Publication”. It covers most of my life in under 42 minutes — that has to be a record! I’m super grateful to her for inviting me and asking all the right questions. Her encouragement has been really supportive over the last year and a half on Substack, along with several others like Barbara Tien, Robin Stewart, Lisa Maguire, and many more of you — I think you know who you are
The Reading Room (opens the original)
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My cousin read my last post “Looking for Rueggs and Scudders”, and gently reminded me that I had forgotten our last stop in the family history tour. So this is a PS to the last post.On the 5th day, we visited the British Library. I had thought about ordering documents beforehand but you need a Reader’s Pass to do that. I discovered that since the British Library suffered a cyberattack in October 2023, it is necessary to apply for a reader’s pass in person. It’s no longer possible online. So that
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