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Can I ask questions regarding fictional family trees?
I have a couple of questions regarding the genealogy and family history of witches and wizards within the Harry Potter universe.
Would such questions be valid on this Stack Exchange site?
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new tag proposal: house-history or building-history
At the moment we have a tag building.
Since building is both a noun and a verb, I think it might be clearer to have the tag be either building-history or house-history. If not, I would like to see ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Shall we implement the "No AI" banner?
Re: Meta Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content
Stack Exchange is rolling out an option to include a banner when a user is writing an answer ...
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no tag "cyrillic"?
The post on Mar 9, 2023 needs tags like "cyrillic", "russian-empire", "russian". Why are there no such tags yet? At least, "cyrillic". It could draw attention ...
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Encouraging new questioners to include relevant information in questions?
This Q is inspired by Ancestors union civil war pension containing a USCT vet on their pension but the issue applies site-wide.
Can we create a resource on the site to encourage people to include ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Use of the ship tag
While answering this recent question:
Finding details about an immigration from England to New Zealand / Australia
I recommended using the tag ship to look for questions about researching a ship that ...
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improving our answers to palaeography questions
For the questions where people have difficulty reading documents, such as this recent request:
Deciphering Work Profession from marriage certificate
Can we do something to make the answers of more ...
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Genealogy & Family History SE is turning 10!
Thank you to the whole community for making this a great site to get your Genealogy & Family History questions answered.
The Overflow (Stack Overflow blog) will feature us along with the other ...
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2021: a year in moderation
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Should we be encouraging/condoning/allowing questions about software piracy?
We're not responsible for checking that people have the rights to publish images and other third-party content here, nor for ensuring that users stick to the terms of service of third party sites (e.g....
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Genealogy & Family History is graduating!
On 16 Dec 2021, our site is officially moving out of Beta!
Our understanding is that the decision for that was based on reasons that included the length of time we have been in Beta.
In the immediate ...
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Is [onomastics] tag needed?
A tag for onomastics has appeared and has currently been applied to two questions.
Those two questions are about the origin of particular surnames.
Wikipedia describes onomastics in this way:
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Contacting people who answered questions on Main site
I read Custom of hyphenated names in Germany which was posted about hypenated names in the Greiner family. I am very interested in some of the responses, and the information about the Greiners.
How do ...
