Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
@efsacco.bsky.social
Genealogist, independent scholar. Daka Taino, still here.
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Whew! Endogamy is a BIG THANG in my family. Uncles and nieces, first cousins...Learn all about it here.
This week, genealogist @efsacco.bsky.social joins us to talk about #CousinMarriage, Latin American endogamy & marriage dispensation records: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
✨💍🤮 #cousins #eww
✨💍🤮 #cousins #eww
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Whew! Endogamy is a BIG THANG in my family. Uncles and nieces, first cousins...Learn all about it here.
Great conversation with @rediscoveringlatinidad !#CousinMarriage shapes families, economies, religion & local government, between the eighteenth & late 19c. Those dispensas hold all kinds of stories #eww
This week, genealogist @efsacco.bsky.social joins us to talk about #CousinMarriage, Latin American endogamy & marriage dispensation records: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
✨💍🤮 #cousins #eww
✨💍🤮 #cousins #eww
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Great conversation with @rediscoveringlatinidad !#CousinMarriage shapes families, economies, religion & local government, between the eighteenth & late 19c. Those dispensas hold all kinds of stories #eww
Registration is open for Finding Moses Williams, a virtual event on 19 November 2025. Follow the link to sign up!
Finding Moses Williams: a virtual program, 19 Nov. 2025
Thrilled to announce i'll be presenting along with four other speakers at an upcoming virtual program. The Library Company of Philadelphia's Program in African American History and the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Art Museum are sponsoring the event. My twenty minute talk, "Not Yet Completely Free: Gradual Emancipation and the Family of Moses Williams, Philadelphia, 1776-1830." presents the results of an archival journey.
latinogenealogyandbeyond.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Registration is open for Finding Moses Williams, a virtual event on 19 November 2025. Follow the link to sign up!
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Thanks to @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social, @efsacco.bsky.social, @shamrockgen.bsky.social & everyone who appeared on Season 6!🎙️
Catching up on podcasts this summer? Learn all about Season 6 of "Rediscovering Latinidad," available wherever you get your podcasts: geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com/2025/06/redi... #latinos #genealogy #familyhistory
June 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Thanks to @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social, @efsacco.bsky.social, @shamrockgen.bsky.social & everyone who appeared on Season 6!🎙️
Vale Ancestors of Camuy: Estevan Vale
Vale Ancestors of Camuy: Estevan Vale A few weeks ago, I saw a hint on my Ancestry family tree for Estevan Vale Caban. To my great surprise, it included a photograph! Could it be my great uncle? After finally locating the origin of a foto for Estevan Vale in…
Vale Ancestors of Camuy: Estevan Vale A few weeks ago, I saw a hint on my Ancestry family tree for Estevan Vale Caban. To my great surprise, it included a photograph! Could it be my great uncle? After finally locating the origin of a foto for Estevan Vale in…
Vale Ancestors of Camuy: Estevan Vale
Vale Ancestors of Camuy: Estevan Vale A few weeks ago, I saw a hint on my Ancestry family tree for Estevan Vale Caban. To my great surprise, it included a photograph! Could it be my great uncle? After finally locating the origin of a foto for Estevan Vale in Ancestry's Passports database, I was struck by how much of a desire there is for an image of an ancestor.
latinogenealogyandbeyond.com
May 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Vale Ancestors of Camuy: Estevan Vale
Vale Ancestors of Camuy: Estevan Vale A few weeks ago, I saw a hint on my Ancestry family tree for Estevan Vale Caban. To my great surprise, it included a photograph! Could it be my great uncle? After finally locating the origin of a foto for Estevan Vale in…
Vale Ancestors of Camuy: Estevan Vale A few weeks ago, I saw a hint on my Ancestry family tree for Estevan Vale Caban. To my great surprise, it included a photograph! Could it be my great uncle? After finally locating the origin of a foto for Estevan Vale in…
Celebrating My Phyllis Wheatley Award Recognition
Thrilled to announce that I was awarded the Phyllis Wheatley Award for my article "Not Yet Completely Free"!
Thrilled to announce that I was awarded the Phyllis Wheatley Award for my article "Not Yet Completely Free"!
Celebrating My Phyllis Wheatley Award Recognition
Thrilled to announce that I was awarded the Phyllis Wheatley Award for my article "Not Yet Completely Free"!
latinogenealogyandbeyond.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Celebrating My Phyllis Wheatley Award Recognition
Thrilled to announce that I was awarded the Phyllis Wheatley Award for my article "Not Yet Completely Free"!
Thrilled to announce that I was awarded the Phyllis Wheatley Award for my article "Not Yet Completely Free"!
So honored to receive the Phyllis Wheatley Award from the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP), for my recent article "Not Yet Completely Free: Gradual Emancipation and the Family of Moses Williams, Philadelphia 1776-1833" AAHGS Journal v43! Hahom to many who helped!
April 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
So honored to receive the Phyllis Wheatley Award from the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP), for my recent article "Not Yet Completely Free: Gradual Emancipation and the Family of Moses Williams, Philadelphia 1776-1833" AAHGS Journal v43! Hahom to many who helped!
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So my read of this is that they are hoping this will go to SCOTUS and SCOTUS will rule in their favor by gutting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is to say that science funding is their trojan horse for legalizing resegregation in all facets of American life 🧪
This feels existential for US science:
To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work
(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)
No institution could *ever* comply.
To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work
(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)
No institution could *ever* comply.
New NIH grant rules override the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring recipients from DEI activities
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution ad | The National Institutes of Health is rolling out rules that block new grants f...
www.fiercebiotech.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
So my read of this is that they are hoping this will go to SCOTUS and SCOTUS will rule in their favor by gutting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is to say that science funding is their trojan horse for legalizing resegregation in all facets of American life 🧪
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I know it's one of our longest standing major global exports, but I would really like it if America would stop trying to find new and varied— or, hell, even our time-tested— ways of doing eugenics.
April 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I know it's one of our longest standing major global exports, but I would really like it if America would stop trying to find new and varied— or, hell, even our time-tested— ways of doing eugenics.
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In a new body of work on view in NYC this week, Elina Chauvet stitches a line between delicacy and brutality, using embroidery to approach the seeds of spousal abuse and subjugation that germinate into violence.
Mexican Artist’s Embroidery Unravels Global Gender Violence Crisis
In a pop-up exhibition in New York City this week, Elina Chauvet bookends Women’s History Month with a crucial call to end the cycle.
hyperallergic.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In a new body of work on view in NYC this week, Elina Chauvet stitches a line between delicacy and brutality, using embroidery to approach the seeds of spousal abuse and subjugation that germinate into violence.
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"They're disappearing people off the street how is this America??????"
www.history.com/articles/fug...
www.history.com/articles/fug...
Fugitive Slave Acts - Definition, 1793 & 1850 | HISTORY
The Fugitive Slave Acts, passed in 1793 and 1850, were federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the United States.
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March 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"They're disappearing people off the street how is this America??????"
www.history.com/articles/fug...
www.history.com/articles/fug...
Appreciate the mention! It’s a 16 detail packed minute interview with Bernice Bennett on Williams’s family and what we can learn from their lives as part of the Free Black community in early 1800s Philadelphia. For more, see AAGHS Journal v43 Winter issue
Moses Williams 1776-1830 the first Black Museum Professional with @efsacco.bsky.social www.spreaker.com/episode/mose...
Moses Williams (1776-1830), his Family & Gradual Emancipation with Dr. Ellen Fernandez-Sacco - Ancestor's Footprints
www.spreaker.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Appreciate the mention! It’s a 16 detail packed minute interview with Bernice Bennett on Williams’s family and what we can learn from their lives as part of the Free Black community in early 1800s Philadelphia. For more, see AAGHS Journal v43 Winter issue
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From what I have been told, the owner had to resign in order for jer to by back the company. Of course, I will delete my dat if a Plecker buys the company. Holding steady for now.
Now's a good time to revisit our episode on the Fall of #23andMe, with genealogists @efsacco.bsky.social & @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
March 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
From what I have been told, the owner had to resign in order for jer to by back the company. Of course, I will delete my dat if a Plecker buys the company. Holding steady for now.
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Now's a good time to revisit our episode on the Fall of #23andMe, with genealogists @efsacco.bsky.social & @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
March 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Now's a good time to revisit our episode on the Fall of #23andMe, with genealogists @efsacco.bsky.social & @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...
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The inventions of former slaves are often erased from text books and history books. Their ideas were stolen by white people who got rich off them all while they continue to portray Black people without knowledge www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...
The lost story of the former slave who opened one of Providence’s first restaurants and elevated the oyster - The Boston Globe
The shellfish was considered food for the poor before Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, an emancipated Black man, started serving them to the city’s elite in the 1700s.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The inventions of former slaves are often erased from text books and history books. Their ideas were stolen by white people who got rich off them all while they continue to portray Black people without knowledge www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...
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The Plunder of Black America “concludes that the history and long shadow of racist plunder continues to be felt ‘in the form of poor health, fewer educational opportunities, lack of credit, food apartheid & spatial mismatch between housing & jobs”-Glenn Altschuler🙏🏽 www.flcourier.com/entertainmen...
Author chronicles creation of the racial gap between Blacks and whites
BOOK REVIEW
www.flcourier.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The Plunder of Black America “concludes that the history and long shadow of racist plunder continues to be felt ‘in the form of poor health, fewer educational opportunities, lack of credit, food apartheid & spatial mismatch between housing & jobs”-Glenn Altschuler🙏🏽 www.flcourier.com/entertainmen...
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🧬 We're back! 🔥Our Season 6 premiere tackles the Fall of #23andMe with genealogists @efsacco.bsky.social & @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social! We cover DNA privacy concerns and how DNA helps many people of color trace families beyond recent generations.
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February 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🧬 We're back! 🔥Our Season 6 premiere tackles the Fall of #23andMe with genealogists @efsacco.bsky.social & @rrbbgenealogy.bsky.social! We cover DNA privacy concerns and how DNA helps many people of color trace families beyond recent generations.
Download, like, subscribe: rediscoveringlatinidad.com
Download, like, subscribe: rediscoveringlatinidad.com
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Here are some of the government documents The 19th preserved amid the Trump-Musk purge:
*Maternal mortality data (CDC)
*Abortion and contraception data (CDC)
*Reports on violence against Native American women (DOJ)
*Research on mental health of girls and LGBTQ+ youth
19thnews.org/2025/02/fede...
*Maternal mortality data (CDC)
*Abortion and contraception data (CDC)
*Reports on violence against Native American women (DOJ)
*Research on mental health of girls and LGBTQ+ youth
19thnews.org/2025/02/fede...
What we saved from the federal government’s data purge
Many federal datasets and webpages are no longer accessible in order to comply with Trump’s executive order recognizing only two genders.
19thnews.org
February 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Here are some of the government documents The 19th preserved amid the Trump-Musk purge:
*Maternal mortality data (CDC)
*Abortion and contraception data (CDC)
*Reports on violence against Native American women (DOJ)
*Research on mental health of girls and LGBTQ+ youth
19thnews.org/2025/02/fede...
*Maternal mortality data (CDC)
*Abortion and contraception data (CDC)
*Reports on violence against Native American women (DOJ)
*Research on mental health of girls and LGBTQ+ youth
19thnews.org/2025/02/fede...
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#genealogy #FamilyHistory #RecordAccess #NewYork
Upcoming deadline to speak out against new rules for Vital Records access in New York State (and NYC before consolidation). Act before February 11th! More details in next skeet.
www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...
Upcoming deadline to speak out against new rules for Vital Records access in New York State (and NYC before consolidation). Act before February 11th! More details in next skeet.
www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...
Call to action: New York!
Speak out on records access It's starting again. Every so often, records access -- particularly access to vital records -- goes on the chopping block. And access to these critical records for family h...
www.legalgenealogist.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#genealogy #FamilyHistory #RecordAccess #NewYork
Upcoming deadline to speak out against new rules for Vital Records access in New York State (and NYC before consolidation). Act before February 11th! More details in next skeet.
www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...
Upcoming deadline to speak out against new rules for Vital Records access in New York State (and NYC before consolidation). Act before February 11th! More details in next skeet.
www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...
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You can read more about Irish-born William Payne in Margaret Seidler's book 'Payne-ful Business' payne-fulbusiness.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
You can read more about Irish-born William Payne in Margaret Seidler's book 'Payne-ful Business' payne-fulbusiness.com
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Ruth Hallows is the first person in the United States from her urban Tsimshian community to hold the skills to craft Chilkat dancing blankets.
Reviving Tsimshian Weaving With Threads of Community
Colonial law forced many of our art practices into a deep slumber. Now, I am the first person in the US from my community to hold the skills to craft Chilkat dancing blankets.
hyperallergic.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Ruth Hallows is the first person in the United States from her urban Tsimshian community to hold the skills to craft Chilkat dancing blankets.
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The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Please preorder now: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
February 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Please preorder now: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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They have trashed valuable products your tax money paid for.
More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found.
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
They have trashed valuable products your tax money paid for.
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Trump has disbanded the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The group’s work was grounded in “the fundamental belief that creativity, diversity, and democracy are intrinsically bound, and that the arts and the humanities can be a powerful force for social change.”
Trump Disbands President's Committee on Arts and Humanities
The committee worked on projects including mobilizing artists to counter all forms of hate and the developing role of AI in arts and humanities.
hyperallergic.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Trump has disbanded the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The group’s work was grounded in “the fundamental belief that creativity, diversity, and democracy are intrinsically bound, and that the arts and the humanities can be a powerful force for social change.”