What! #genchat 🤣 https://thebulletin.org/premium/2026-01/what-the-people-want/

As promised, my family history micro stories are reappearing in 2026. Thanks to kicking around ideas with the #genchat folks, I have a plan. The stories will mostly be repeated from the first round. I have allocated an hour a day to this project. I will review related information, make revisions, and most importantly, rename related files from sloppy and inconsistent names to standardized formats. I have about 19,000 files to standardize. Hopefully this strategy will keep it from getting too boring. We will see how it goes. Time for day one!
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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all my #genchat and #genealogy friends!

Music makes my family lose control. Talking about my brother this week for #52Ancestors: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2025/12/52-ancestors-week-51-musical.html #genchat #genealogy

@geneapleau Always a good tip to check the actual document or scan, especially on Ancestry. Often sections get skipped in the transcript when it gets harder to read or the transcriber doesn't understand the context - like marginal notes and end notes etc. #genealogy @genealogy #genchat

Glad to see #genchat trending on its last official day! 😊

One last thing: feel free to use the #genchat hashtag whenever you want. You never know who's following it!
And again, I may host a pop-up chat now & then, or use this account to share various #genealogy news.

And I'll be on my personal account as well, hopefully more regularly!

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@RobertJackson58585858 Aw, thanks, Robert! And thank YOU for being a consistent #genchatter here. Otherwise I'd just be typing into the void. :) #genchat

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Number 2 ... it's a lesson hard learned :))

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Christine, thank you for introducing me to a circle of #FamilyHistory folk I'd never otherwise get to interact with.

It has been a privilege to be able to listen to you all :)

@RobertJackson58585858 I love these, but chuckle at number 2 #genchat

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A5 #Genchat

1 ... in my Christmas round robin ... just a snippet or two from the year perhaps to tickle the interest of friends and family.

2 ... by discreetly chatting with friends and family. "I MUST NOT BE A FAMILY HISTORY BORE".

3 ... by listening with interest to the stories of others ... hopefully again to tickle their interest in delving further themselves.

4 ... by following family history related hashtags on Mastodon, interacting when appropriate.

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@MarianBWood Absolutely! Christine, you're very appreciated for all the work you've done on GenChat!
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I just want to take the time to thank all the #genchatters past & present on Twitter, Mastodon & Bluesky. These past 13 years could not have happened without your collaboration, passion for #genealogy, welcoming spirit and friendship. You’ve made #genchat one of the best spots on social media.

🥳 A big thank you once more to Christine @genchat for everything she's done in keeping #GenChat lively and informative for so long. Happy holidays and enjoy your time off!

@genchat A5. That's a great question. I had mentors and I would like to mentor others more than I have. Being so COVID cautious has really limited my world, but I can do something virtually.
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I've been pleasantly surprised by how much French-from-France (*not* French-Canadian) resources have been available thru RootsTech in recent (virtual) years. .

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A5 #genchat I promised I'd share with y'all:

Jan: I invite all my fellow #GenChat peeps to take a look at Genealogy SE, to read the help, and think about how using a problem-focused approach can help your #genealogy research. If it's too nerdy for you to join, I get it, but you can still use the Q/A format as a framework for forming your Q. https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/users/1006/jan-murphy

@genchat #GenChat A5 Put into practice what I learn; share what I learn in chats or social media or at meetings/webinars; document the results so future generations don't have to reinvent the wheel.