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svona.bsky.social
English by birth, Swiss by marriage, living in rural Alsace. Family historian (MSc Genealogical Studies; RQG), avid reader, amateur musician and crafter. https://www.angloswiss.site/ https://www.heatonsww1
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Easter baking to date: hot cross buns (with wobbly crosses) and lamala, a traditional cake from Alsace. #Easter

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Spring in Alsace - it took a while to arrive!

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A death record I stumbled across while helping my husband to research his family in the canton of Vaud - no known link to"his" Rochats, but still pretty cool! #Genealogy

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Birds on/underneath the feeder today: great tits, blue tits, marsh tits, coal tits, sparrows, robin and jay. Among these, one great tit and one coal tit with only one foot each - they've been regular visitors for a while. #Birds #Oiseaux #Wildlife

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We're off - operetta #6 is officially under way! #Music #Choir #Orchestra

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Annotations in church registers can be invaluable to family historians - provided you can actually read them! One of the more legible extracts from my husband's direct line in Switzerland in 1683... #Genealogy #Lauterbrunnen

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Somehow I didn't expect to find a butcher serving in the Army Veterinary Corps in WWI. 🙄 #Genealogy #WWI #Stockport

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Freshly baked focaccia: rosemary, goat cheese and potato.

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Ready for pressing and framing - I'm rather pleased with this one! #Crafting #CrossStitch #PointDeCroix #Owl

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

Working on my database of #WWI soldiers from #Stockport, and I've found one who enlisted under his mother's maiden name. Not illegitimate; all other records under his birth surname, so there's got to be a story there somewhere? #Genealogy

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A lingering virus, December/January concerts and flu (in overlapping order) meant #Genealogy took a back seat for a while, but I'm finally back working on my #Stockport #WWI database. Today's best find: a newspaper transcription of names from another "lost" local Roll of Honour.

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Lilou on the tray of small grandson's blackboard. No idea why.

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Some storks are already back at our local colony - the first ones arrived at the end of last week, which is at least 2 weeks earlier than usual. Did they winter in S. Europe, rather than Africa, making the return journey shorter? #Birds #Migration #Cigognes #Alsace

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Some French crisp flavours are slightly weird...

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Our last concert of 2024 was on 21 December (unusually late), and we kicked off 2025 with 2 weekends of "café-concerts" in January - songs, sketches and instrumental numbers in a bistrot setting. A fun fundraiser! #Music #Harmonie #MusiqueMunicipaleMasevaux

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We now have the beginnings of an owl. #CrossStitch #PointDeCroix #Craft

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Caught a nasty virus/cough a week before Christmas and still haven't really thrown it off. At least I've made progress with the cross stitch kit I was given 2 years ago. 😕

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