Graveyard Snoop
@graveyardsnoop.bsky.social
Deep-dive research into the people under the headstones. Interested in hidden & obscured histories. #genealogyforall #inclusivegenealogy 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The onslaught of cheery Ancestry com ads is coming. Stuff those ads leave out, both seen today:
How to mentally process a census record that shows a 35-yr-old grandmother of a 3-yr-old; or an "out of wedlock birth" where the parents aren't married... but they do share the same surname. #genealogy
How to mentally process a census record that shows a 35-yr-old grandmother of a 3-yr-old; or an "out of wedlock birth" where the parents aren't married... but they do share the same surname. #genealogy
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The onslaught of cheery Ancestry com ads is coming. Stuff those ads leave out, both seen today:
How to mentally process a census record that shows a 35-yr-old grandmother of a 3-yr-old; or an "out of wedlock birth" where the parents aren't married... but they do share the same surname. #genealogy
How to mentally process a census record that shows a 35-yr-old grandmother of a 3-yr-old; or an "out of wedlock birth" where the parents aren't married... but they do share the same surname. #genealogy
Genealogy continues to mess with me: I'm researching a woman whose name is Charlotte. She was born in a town called Charlotte Courthouse, VA, which is in Charlotte County VA.
I don't think that should be allowed. Authorities should have stepped in. #genhour
I don't think that should be allowed. Authorities should have stepped in. #genhour
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Genealogy continues to mess with me: I'm researching a woman whose name is Charlotte. She was born in a town called Charlotte Courthouse, VA, which is in Charlotte County VA.
I don't think that should be allowed. Authorities should have stepped in. #genhour
I don't think that should be allowed. Authorities should have stepped in. #genhour
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For all of my #genealogy and #ancestryhour peeps - you should know that recently Ancestry has changed its ToS to prevent searching of public records hosted on the Ancestry site to keep investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) practitioners and forensic genealogists (FGs) OUT. (Please read the whole 🧵)
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
For all of my #genealogy and #ancestryhour peeps - you should know that recently Ancestry has changed its ToS to prevent searching of public records hosted on the Ancestry site to keep investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) practitioners and forensic genealogists (FGs) OUT. (Please read the whole 🧵)
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Rescued this teddy from the sidewalk near Sheridan and Winona
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Rescued this teddy from the sidewalk near Sheridan and Winona
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
Me scolding my cat for breaking rules he cannot actually comprehend.
Sow & her 6 piglets on trial in 14th Century France for the murder of a 5 year old boy. (Unsuspecting animals used to be prosecuted as if they had the same capacity as humans)
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Me scolding my cat for breaking rules he cannot actually comprehend.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Story prompt/sweater scandal, 1920s style.
From the personals section. Why they didn't just go get the sweater is a mystery.
Belvidere Daily Republican; Nov 7, 1925
From the personals section. Why they didn't just go get the sweater is a mystery.
Belvidere Daily Republican; Nov 7, 1925
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Story prompt/sweater scandal, 1920s style.
From the personals section. Why they didn't just go get the sweater is a mystery.
Belvidere Daily Republican; Nov 7, 1925
From the personals section. Why they didn't just go get the sweater is a mystery.
Belvidere Daily Republican; Nov 7, 1925
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This spring, new AI photo tools arrived. Genealogists experimented. Then quickly we realized: these tools don't "restore" historical photos—they may fabricate new faces.
By August, these "restorations" were everywhere, unlabeled, corrupting our shared historical record. #genealogy
By August, these "restorations" were everywhere, unlabeled, corrupting our shared historical record. #genealogy
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This spring, new AI photo tools arrived. Genealogists experimented. Then quickly we realized: these tools don't "restore" historical photos—they may fabricate new faces.
By August, these "restorations" were everywhere, unlabeled, corrupting our shared historical record. #genealogy
By August, these "restorations" were everywhere, unlabeled, corrupting our shared historical record. #genealogy
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Border Patrol's Greg Bovino likes to say his agents are welcomed by 99 percent of people in Chicago but as they drive around the city, they're met with constant shouts of "get the fuck out of here!"
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Border Patrol's Greg Bovino likes to say his agents are welcomed by 99 percent of people in Chicago but as they drive around the city, they're met with constant shouts of "get the fuck out of here!"
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This is real. Chicago today.
Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby
October 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This is real. Chicago today.
I mentioned a few years ago that the spread of AI identification + history would mean the eventual ability to ID the faces of crowd members in 1920s lynching photos. This is pretty close.
We're coming for your dead racist grandpas and grandmas.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #history
We're coming for your dead racist grandpas and grandmas.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #history
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I mentioned a few years ago that the spread of AI identification + history would mean the eventual ability to ID the faces of crowd members in 1920s lynching photos. This is pretty close.
We're coming for your dead racist grandpas and grandmas.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #history
We're coming for your dead racist grandpas and grandmas.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #history
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Is there anything more tantalising than the promise of an early 19th-century letter with the postscript "Burn this immediately"?
September 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Is there anything more tantalising than the promise of an early 19th-century letter with the postscript "Burn this immediately"?
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I expected things to get very stupid, but I’m not sure I expected things to get this stupid this quickly.
September 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I expected things to get very stupid, but I’m not sure I expected things to get this stupid this quickly.
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I can't offer a gift link, but if you can read this article about NPEs, you should. It's a *lot* - not to mention a stroll down memory lane. #GeneticGenealogy
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises
Through genetic testing, millions of Americans are estimated to have discovered that their parents aren’t who they thought. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answe...
www.newyorker.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I can't offer a gift link, but if you can read this article about NPEs, you should. It's a *lot* - not to mention a stroll down memory lane. #GeneticGenealogy
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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the problem with “norms” is they’re just held together with common sense and a fear of shame. when people have neither, it all collapses.
August 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
the problem with “norms” is they’re just held together with common sense and a fear of shame. when people have neither, it all collapses.
Doing some fascinating digging in the National Desertion Bureau Database, intended to keep track of those who abandoned their spouses. This guy must have been one hell of a smooth talker. 150yearsofcare.org/ndb-database #genealogy
August 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Doing some fascinating digging in the National Desertion Bureau Database, intended to keep track of those who abandoned their spouses. This guy must have been one hell of a smooth talker. 150yearsofcare.org/ndb-database #genealogy
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Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
August 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
Spent the wknd entertaining a guest, & we gave him the full #Chicago tourist treatment. Hit the history high spots, from "There are no tunnels under the Green Mill" to the joke about the opera house looking like a chair positioned to spite NYC.
August 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Spent the wknd entertaining a guest, & we gave him the full #Chicago tourist treatment. Hit the history high spots, from "There are no tunnels under the Green Mill" to the joke about the opera house looking like a chair positioned to spite NYC.
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The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
Breaking News: President Trump said he was taking control of the police in Washington, D.C., and deploying 800 National Guard troops there in response to “out of control” crime — even though violent crime in the city has fallen. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/3H9yVcu
August 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
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A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
August 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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They're trying to do everything they can to stop us. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
In December, RTR launched BIRLS.org along with a very easy way to make FOIA requests for deceased veterans' claim files. As of late July, the VA will no longer release these great files, only short summaries. See www.birls.org/updates - RTR is working on learning more & fighting these changes.
Search the BIRLS Database - over 18 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records
Search the BIRLS Database - over 18 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records
BIRLS.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
They're trying to do everything they can to stop us. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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In December, RTR launched BIRLS.org along with a very easy way to make FOIA requests for deceased veterans' claim files. As of late July, the VA will no longer release these great files, only short summaries. See www.birls.org/updates - RTR is working on learning more & fighting these changes.
Search the BIRLS Database - over 18 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records
Search the BIRLS Database - over 18 million records about deceased US veterans, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, now online and FREE from Reclaim The Records
BIRLS.org
August 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In December, RTR launched BIRLS.org along with a very easy way to make FOIA requests for deceased veterans' claim files. As of late July, the VA will no longer release these great files, only short summaries. See www.birls.org/updates - RTR is working on learning more & fighting these changes.
Like Julian Fellowes, I also watched Capote vs the Swans last winter. Where’s my contract for a costume drama? #gildedage
August 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Like Julian Fellowes, I also watched Capote vs the Swans last winter. Where’s my contract for a costume drama? #gildedage