Heather Wilkinson Rojo
@heatherrojo.bsky.social
Genealogy blogger https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/ Genealogist, past Governor of the New Hampshire Mayflower Society, past president of the Londonderry, NH Historical Society, weathervanes, Lego, Girl Scout leader, grandmother, butler to two cats
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Nutfield Genealogy
Genealogy, local history and historical research in New England
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I'm new to posting on Blue Sky. I'm looking to hook up with the genealogy community, and with local historians from New England. My blog is "Nutfield Genealogy" and I'm based in Manchester, New Hampshire. nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com
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12 Nov 2025 Some tips for finding birth records. #ancestry #genealogy
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
12 Nov 2025 Some tips for finding birth records. #ancestry #genealogy
November 13th is Indian Pudding Day! Here is a very old blog post about a very old recipe, beloved by New Englanders. Have you had your Indian Pudding today? nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/indi...
Indian Pudding Day, November 13th
Indian Pudding is the ultimate Yankee comfort food, made with few ingredients (if it calls for more than eight ingredients you don’t hav...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
November 13th is Indian Pudding Day! Here is a very old blog post about a very old recipe, beloved by New Englanders. Have you had your Indian Pudding today? nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/indi...
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
It's Weathervane Wednesday! Here is a fantastic weathervane of a crane, with a very historical backstory in Charlestown, Massachusetts by the river overlooking Boston! nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/09/weat...
Weathervane Wednesday ~ A Crane with a Great Story!
I post a series of weather vane photographs every Wednesday. This started with images of weathervanes from the Londonderry, New Hampshire a...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It's Weathervane Wednesday! Here is a fantastic weathervane of a crane, with a very historical backstory in Charlestown, Massachusetts by the river overlooking Boston! nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/09/weat...
Today's Nutfield Genealogy post is all about our visit to Peaks Island, Casco Bay, Maine, to visit the unique little Umbrella Cover Museum. Have you been? Did your ancestors or relatives have any unique collections? nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/11/peak...
Peaks Island and the Umbrella Cover Museum
Yes, you heard correctly. There is an Umbrella Cover Museum on Peak's Island. The only one in the world! Keep reading to learn more. The...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Today's Nutfield Genealogy post is all about our visit to Peaks Island, Casco Bay, Maine, to visit the unique little Umbrella Cover Museum. Have you been? Did your ancestors or relatives have any unique collections? nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/11/peak...
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Kindness is the quiet force that holds the family history community together. Every act of help—sharing a record, decoding a document, treating another’s story with care—strengthens our bonds. Genealogy isn’t just data; it’s a human story preserved through empathy and respect. #genealogy #kindness
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Kindness is the quiet force that holds the family history community together. Every act of help—sharing a record, decoding a document, treating another’s story with care—strengthens our bonds. Genealogy isn’t just data; it’s a human story preserved through empathy and respect. #genealogy #kindness
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
Tomorrow is Voting Day! You know what to do
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Tomorrow is Voting Day! You know what to do
Happy Halloween from Nutfield Genealogy! This blog post will send you on a spooky scavenger hunt from Crawford Notch to the surrounding towns searching for a family burial spot. nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/10/this...
This story will give you the Willeys - literally!
To the memory of the Family which was at once destroyed by a slide from the white Mountains on the night of 28 August 1826. SAMUEL WILLEY,...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy Halloween from Nutfield Genealogy! This blog post will send you on a spooky scavenger hunt from Crawford Notch to the surrounding towns searching for a family burial spot. nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/10/this...
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Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
Happy Halloween from Nutfield Genealogy. The story of the Willey family perishing in a great landslide in Crawford Notch in 1826 is one of the greatest ghost stories told in New Hampshire. But where was the Willey family buried? nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/10/this...
This story will give you the Willeys - literally!
To the memory of the Family which was at once destroyed by a slide from the white Mountains on the night of 28 August 1826. SAMUEL WILLEY,...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Happy Halloween from Nutfield Genealogy. The story of the Willey family perishing in a great landslide in Crawford Notch in 1826 is one of the greatest ghost stories told in New Hampshire. But where was the Willey family buried? nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/10/this...
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It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
History moment for today….
October 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
History moment for today….
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
How common are step sibling marriages in your colonial family tree? Read this blog post "He married his step sister?" #genealogy #FamilyHistory nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/02/he-m...
He married his Step Sister?
Back when I was a teen aged kid, in the 1970's, before computers and the internet, I started working on my family history. As a teenag...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
How common are step sibling marriages in your colonial family tree? Read this blog post "He married his step sister?" #genealogy #FamilyHistory nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/02/he-m...
40% of SNAP recipients are kids, 18% are elderly, 11% are disabled and of the rest, ~70% already have jobs. So unless your company’s hiring underage Interns, grandma and her walker, or knows how to fit more hours in a day, maybe cool it with the “just get a job” comments.
October 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
40% of SNAP recipients are kids, 18% are elderly, 11% are disabled and of the rest, ~70% already have jobs. So unless your company’s hiring underage Interns, grandma and her walker, or knows how to fit more hours in a day, maybe cool it with the “just get a job” comments.
I have the same feelings about AI and genealogy
I am generally skeptical of AI. It vomits up a lot of false, fictitious, or misleading info. I hate how it sucks energy, wastes water, and is often built on violation of copyright. That said, I have had some interesting finds here! #genealogy #FamilyHistory
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Full-Text Search: A Powerful Tool for Making Genealogy Discoveries • FamilySearch
Search millions of records on FamilySearch to find information about your ancestors with full-text search.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I have the same feelings about AI and genealogy
Are you planning to come to the New England Regional Genealogy Conference next week? I wrote this blog post about 12 years ago for another NERGC conference, and I heard that it came in very handy for those who needed to understand the locals. nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-...
New Hampshire Pronunciation
Many genealogists are coming to New Hampshire soon for the NERGC conference in Manchester, April 17 – 21 st . I hope they are prepared…. ...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Are you planning to come to the New England Regional Genealogy Conference next week? I wrote this blog post about 12 years ago for another NERGC conference, and I heard that it came in very handy for those who needed to understand the locals. nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-...
This is a very strange artifact from the past. Have you ever seen a rocking cradle for adults? Do you know the story? nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/03/from...
From cradle to... cradle?
The following cradles were photographed at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. A chlld's cradle by the fireplace of the "S...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is a very strange artifact from the past. Have you ever seen a rocking cradle for adults? Do you know the story? nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/03/from...
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Has anyone ever come across an entry in a census you know is factually wrong, but correctly transcribed from the original by #Ancestry or #FindMyPast, so you can't send in an error report to get it changed?
It's so frustrating!
😓
#genealogy
It's so frustrating!
😓
#genealogy
October 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Has anyone ever come across an entry in a census you know is factually wrong, but correctly transcribed from the original by #Ancestry or #FindMyPast, so you can't send in an error report to get it changed?
It's so frustrating!
😓
#genealogy
It's so frustrating!
😓
#genealogy
History moment for today.... (thanks to the National Park Service Lego Vignettes at Facebook)
October 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
History moment for today.... (thanks to the National Park Service Lego Vignettes at Facebook)
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Sophia Brahe: The Invisible Astronomer Whose Eyes Mapped the Cosmos Newton Explained
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Astronomy #Genealogy #Horticulture
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Astronomy #Genealogy #Horticulture
Sophia Brahe: The Invisible Astronomer Whose Eyes Mapped the Cosmos Newton Explained
Sophia Brahe’s astronomical observations achieved unprecedented accuracy, enabling Kepler’s laws and Newton’s gravitational theory. Yet her contributions vanished behind her broth…
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October 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Sophia Brahe: The Invisible Astronomer Whose Eyes Mapped the Cosmos Newton Explained
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Astronomy #Genealogy #Horticulture
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Astronomy #Genealogy #Horticulture
It's Weathervane Wednesday! Today's weathervane was photographed near the beach in Santander, Spain. (Bluesky won't show the top of the column where the weathervane sits, so click on the photo or the link to see the entire photo and story) nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-we...
A weathervane in Santander, Spain
This weathervane of a galleon ship is atop a stone column in the middle of a roundabout in Santander, Spain. It is located on the beach i...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
It's Weathervane Wednesday! Today's weathervane was photographed near the beach in Santander, Spain. (Bluesky won't show the top of the column where the weathervane sits, so click on the photo or the link to see the entire photo and story) nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-we...
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Feeling overwhelmed by your DNA results? You’re not alone.
Join our free webinar “Organize Your DNA Matches" today at 2 PM ET and learn how to find the clues (and cousins!) that matter most. Register now to get a bonus handout, and 7-day replay! hubs.la/Q03N1xKM0
#genealogy
Join our free webinar “Organize Your DNA Matches" today at 2 PM ET and learn how to find the clues (and cousins!) that matter most. Register now to get a bonus handout, and 7-day replay! hubs.la/Q03N1xKM0
#genealogy
October 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Feeling overwhelmed by your DNA results? You’re not alone.
Join our free webinar “Organize Your DNA Matches" today at 2 PM ET and learn how to find the clues (and cousins!) that matter most. Register now to get a bonus handout, and 7-day replay! hubs.la/Q03N1xKM0
#genealogy
Join our free webinar “Organize Your DNA Matches" today at 2 PM ET and learn how to find the clues (and cousins!) that matter most. Register now to get a bonus handout, and 7-day replay! hubs.la/Q03N1xKM0
#genealogy