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#AI in #genealogy?!?? Oh yes, my #RootsTech talk shows how #FamilySearch LLMs and chatbots dig through business records, wills, and even colonial-era genealogies to uncover juicy, sometimes scandalous Latin American family history! ¡JUEPA JE! #Latino #Latinos #Colombia
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Looks like 2026 is another Year of #BadBunny! As Benito celebrates his #Grammys wins and prepares for the #SuperBowl, listen to our episode on how "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS" shaped 2025 for Latinos and the world: www.spreaker.com/episode/seas...

🐰😎 #PuertoRico #PfuckingR
February 2, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Full Bad Bunny speech
February 2, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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Chauvinart.com has some wonderful reconstructions of the Hippodrome, including the chariot race below, which is so like the Campana relief that I photographed, above. Of course, the sculptural relief on the spina, below the metae, should be painted. Gorgeous sunset shot, too. 🏺 4/
February 1, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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In case you had forgotten that time is fleeting & we will all die, this fellow from 1531 is here to remind you. Painted by Barthel Bruyn, whose day was today.
February 2, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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February from the Breviary of Queen Isabella of Castile. Gather lots of wood, folks! It's bloody cold this month.
February 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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My #book on #WifeSelling describes how when young people moved to towns they often married in haste and fell out so some couples chose to sell the wife to her new #beau. Also describes the use of #ScoldsBridles. In all formats from physical & online stores. #WomensHistory #Familyhistory
February 1, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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Seven serious men and one fish: the Amsterdam militia company of Pieter Dircksz Hasselaer and Lieutenant Jan Gerritsz Hooft. Painted around 1600 by Pieter Pietersz., whose day is today.
January 31, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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Scorsese was apparently facetiming his daughter when he found out. He posted this.
January 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Immensely funny. It's the saddest days in celebrity news when comedians die.
We say goodbye to formidable comedic legend Catherine O'Hara.

A genius of improv and physical comedy, her bold choices made us laugh until we cried in a career that spanned over five decades.

Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
January 30, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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2/2 All vain! Not just the A+ table clock but your fab collection of miniature portraits.
January 30, 2026 at 1:09 PM
You're RIGHT, Ancestry, I need to chase down that religious Jewish marriage that would have never been recorded by Austrian officials... @pymundgenealogy.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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It’s amazing how changing the display of an antiquity in a museum affects how you see it. The lighting - natural or artificial - and the ability to see an item in the round or restricted to a frontal view. La Dama Fonseca, below, in two different settings. 🏺
January 29, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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Publication day! "Brooke Newman has written a brave, brilliant, and essential book, telling truths that many will not want to hear. I hope [it inspires] investigations of other maritime monarchies as we reckon with the still-deadly legacies of human bondage."

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January 27, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Boats are frozen in place but humanity is moving all around them. Love woman selling snacks from inside barrel on left! By Hendrick Avercamp, born OTD 1585.
January 28, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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The article below adds some fascinating detail to the rule of the #Thracian king Seuthes III, whose bronze portrait head, greaves and helmet I've photographed, below. He straddled multiple cultures, as the treasures from his tomb attest. 🏺

📸 me #ancientbluesky

flic.kr/s/aHBqjBSifK
January 26, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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2/2 Riches, wisdom, power, the arts... everything you most desire is fleeting and frankly you should just give up. The ever cheerful Evert Collier, whose day is today.
January 26, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Just because I saw and loved this last week.
January 26, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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This fresco depicting the Crucifixion of Christ from the 14th c. Serbian monastery Visoki Dečani, Kosovo, has some strange details, in top corners, enlarged below
September 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Finally getting around to skimming Witzel's "Origins of the World's Mythologies," so give me all the naturalistic symbolism:
A lyre player from "The Standard of Ur", a Sumerian artefact dated to c. 2550 BC. These bull headed lyres were ceremonial instruments. This is obvious from the fact that the Sumerian sign for lyre also means "to praise." But praise who? And why?
From:
oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2024/09/lyre...
January 25, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Thread: Ahhhh...You might find this interesting.

In this 2020 article, oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/03/lege..., I proposed this:

Is it possible that the "Combat agate" was worn by a Minoan warrior to commemorate a once famous Minoan victory over Mycenaeans?
September 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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2/2 Frigid winter. Can anybody really be having fun? Jan van de Cappelle doubts it, and today is his day.
January 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Can you believe this is from 1670? Bats, by Flemish painter Pieter Boel, equal opportunity animal painter. Not just the cute ones! Wishing you a good night.
January 25, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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Free Online United States City Directories

An excellent source of #genealogy info is Historical City Directories. They provide substantial info between censuses, such as addresses, occupations, spouse's name, etc.

For the country, there are 27,870 Free City Directory Collections

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January 24, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Visit the Newspaper Research Academy at buff.ly/su8jH2o #genealogy
January 24, 2026 at 8:41 PM