Tara MsFrugalone
@msfrugalone.bsky.social
M.A. #HistFam (UL). Likes incl. Genealogy, #AncestryHour, Sport, Current Affairs, Feminism. Mo thuairimí féin RT≠endorsement. She/Her/Sí/Í
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As my Inbox fills up with stupid Black Friday emails.
Here's a little reminder of our starter pack, celebrating #IrishDesign.
Lots of lovely things to buy, and you will feel all squishy inside for supporting small Irish business.
#spheirgorm
#SLATED
#Boycottamazon
go.bsky.app/9sh8HQq
Here's a little reminder of our starter pack, celebrating #IrishDesign.
Lots of lovely things to buy, and you will feel all squishy inside for supporting small Irish business.
#spheirgorm
#SLATED
#Boycottamazon
go.bsky.app/9sh8HQq
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
As my Inbox fills up with stupid Black Friday emails.
Here's a little reminder of our starter pack, celebrating #IrishDesign.
Lots of lovely things to buy, and you will feel all squishy inside for supporting small Irish business.
#spheirgorm
#SLATED
#Boycottamazon
go.bsky.app/9sh8HQq
Here's a little reminder of our starter pack, celebrating #IrishDesign.
Lots of lovely things to buy, and you will feel all squishy inside for supporting small Irish business.
#spheirgorm
#SLATED
#Boycottamazon
go.bsky.app/9sh8HQq
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Dublin bookshop to host festive late-night shopping event following arson attack | Irish Independent share.google/spCMW7qYvg79...
Dublin bookshop to host festive late-night shopping event following arson attack
A much-loved Dublin bookshop will kick off the festive season next week with a late-night Christmas shopping party featuring cocktails, cookies and surprise author signings.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Oh wow, nice to get a mention here, the book that refuses to die! www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
10 of the best Irish short story collections
We are a nation of storytellers - and if you ever needed proof, you need look no further than our short story writers.
www.rte.ie
October 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Oh wow, nice to get a mention here, the book that refuses to die! www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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Downtown Charleston’s International African American Museum will open 'Speaking Truth', an exhibit next week to serve as a national archive on family histories of slavery. www.live5news.com/2025/10/22/i...
International African American Museum to open national slavery archive exhibit
Downtown Charleston’s International African American Museum will open an exhibit next week to serve as a national archive on family histories of slavery.
www.live5news.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Downtown Charleston’s International African American Museum will open 'Speaking Truth', an exhibit next week to serve as a national archive on family histories of slavery. www.live5news.com/2025/10/22/i...
There's an old Irish proverb, "An rud is annamh is iontach," i.e., "what's seldom is wonderful". Special thanks to Martin Oakley and his wife Kate (Lee or Leahy) who gave their Irish counties of origin in the US Census of 1870. #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy
October 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
There's an old Irish proverb, "An rud is annamh is iontach," i.e., "what's seldom is wonderful". Special thanks to Martin Oakley and his wife Kate (Lee or Leahy) who gave their Irish counties of origin in the US Census of 1870. #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy
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Something for the early modernists!
Hey Bluesky!👋 We're the Revels Office, an academic network for PGRs and ECRS researching all things early modern📚
Our community is a friendly space to share ideas and resources, ask questions, support each other, and meet fellow early modernists.
Check out our website for more! revelsoffice.com
Our community is a friendly space to share ideas and resources, ask questions, support each other, and meet fellow early modernists.
Check out our website for more! revelsoffice.com
Revels Office
⋅ a virtual network for early modern PhD students and ECRs ⋅
revelsoffice.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Something for the early modernists!
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I have a chapter in the forthcoming edited collection from Policy Press: Grant & Kara 'Using Documents In Research'. My chapter discusses the creation of a digital archive (www.deardiaryresearch.co.uk) from diary entries/interview transcripts. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/using-docume...
October 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I have a chapter in the forthcoming edited collection from Policy Press: Grant & Kara 'Using Documents In Research'. My chapter discusses the creation of a digital archive (www.deardiaryresearch.co.uk) from diary entries/interview transcripts. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/using-docume...
I remember hearing relatives singing about Tom Dooley when I was a kid www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3zd... Somewhat amazed to discover multiple connections between my relatives and the extended family of that same Tom Dooley (surname sometimes Dula) #Dulatown #Genealogy cc @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social
The Kingston Trio Tom Dooley Live 1958
YouTube video by Connor Jones
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October 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I remember hearing relatives singing about Tom Dooley when I was a kid www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3zd... Somewhat amazed to discover multiple connections between my relatives and the extended family of that same Tom Dooley (surname sometimes Dula) #Dulatown #Genealogy cc @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social
So much fun earlier this evening discovering the service record of an Irish veteran of the Crimean war. His service of 1 year and 11 months ended when he was shot in the neck. Even better, it gave a clue to his later residence & confirmed his connection to a Kerry family in the 1888 news. #Genealogy
October 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
So much fun earlier this evening discovering the service record of an Irish veteran of the Crimean war. His service of 1 year and 11 months ended when he was shot in the neck. Even better, it gave a clue to his later residence & confirmed his connection to a Kerry family in the 1888 news. #Genealogy
Giving updates on the awful things happening in America is the new Irish mammy telling you who died.
September 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
September 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Promised I'd write a paper for someone, but it feels like there are 47 different, relevant, thoughts vying for attention all at once.
a man in a suit and plaid shirt is waving his hand in front of a black curtain with #fallontonight written on it
ALT: a man in a suit and plaid shirt is waving his hand in front of a black curtain with #fallontonight written on it
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September 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Promised I'd write a paper for someone, but it feels like there are 47 different, relevant, thoughts vying for attention all at once.
Poor Peter Flanagan - in 1776 he discovered the truth of the saying "where there's a will, there's a relative". His will of Feb. 1776 had to be amended in Nov of the same year because his son Michael, already provided for, had "robbed" him. #Genealogy census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/dw/IRE...
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September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Poor Peter Flanagan - in 1776 he discovered the truth of the saying "where there's a will, there's a relative". His will of Feb. 1776 had to be amended in Nov of the same year because his son Michael, already provided for, had "robbed" him. #Genealogy census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/dw/IRE...
Another fascinating FamilySearch discovery: "A Return of Foreign Office passports issued in Dublin to persons supposed to have joined the Papal Army from 1st May to 30th June" (1860) www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3... Intriguing to see so many from the province of Munster. #Genealogy #History
FamilySearch.org
Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.
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September 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Another fascinating FamilySearch discovery: "A Return of Foreign Office passports issued in Dublin to persons supposed to have joined the Papal Army from 1st May to 30th June" (1860) www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3... Intriguing to see so many from the province of Munster. #Genealogy #History
Does anyone know what happened with Oxford University's 'Victorian Professions' project? I can see a list of people, but no blogs or links to published/peer-reviewed output www.victorianprofessions.ox.ac.uk/about.html #Genealogy #History cc @joesaunders1.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social
Victorian Professions: About the project
www.victorianprofessions.ox.ac.uk
September 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Does anyone know what happened with Oxford University's 'Victorian Professions' project? I can see a list of people, but no blogs or links to published/peer-reviewed output www.victorianprofessions.ox.ac.uk/about.html #Genealogy #History cc @joesaunders1.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social
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Learn how to read early modern Secretary Hand, with me in this online short course this month. 🗃️
Old Handwriting for Family Historians. Starting next week! This course takes a practical approach to reading and transcribing old handwriting, starting with the records of the 19th century and moving backwards in time. www.pharostutors.com/old-handwrit...
September 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Learn how to read early modern Secretary Hand, with me in this online short course this month. 🗃️
I found a fantastic account of my 2nd great grandfather's family and education. Apparently, this Irish farmer had a classical education in Limerick!?! It also mentioned related families, the Murrays and the Olive(r)s - intriguing. When I checked JSTOR, I'd only dreamed it all - vividly! #genealogy
a woman says she is definitely obsessed with her hands outstretched
ALT: a woman says she is definitely obsessed with her hands outstretched
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September 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I found a fantastic account of my 2nd great grandfather's family and education. Apparently, this Irish farmer had a classical education in Limerick!?! It also mentioned related families, the Murrays and the Olive(r)s - intriguing. When I checked JSTOR, I'd only dreamed it all - vividly! #genealogy
Random, bored, surname/placename enquiry on FamilySearch's free text search appears to have blown open a brick wall and indirectly confirmed the names of my 3GGPs (hypothesis based on DNA and FAN) - all thanks to a woman in Troy, NY who named her husband's nephews in her will. #Genealogy
August 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Random, bored, surname/placename enquiry on FamilySearch's free text search appears to have blown open a brick wall and indirectly confirmed the names of my 3GGPs (hypothesis based on DNA and FAN) - all thanks to a woman in Troy, NY who named her husband's nephews in her will. #Genealogy
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Reminder to sign (and share) this petition please and help emphatically tell The Fash they are not welcome in Castlebar. We can do better than 800 signatures surely?
www.change.org/p/stop-the-m...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-m...
Sign the Petition
Stop the 'Mise Eire' event. Drumshambo said No! Castlebar,it's your turn, say NO too!
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August 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Reminder to sign (and share) this petition please and help emphatically tell The Fash they are not welcome in Castlebar. We can do better than 800 signatures surely?
www.change.org/p/stop-the-m...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-m...
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The Registration Act of 1836, officially titled "An Act for Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England", received Royal Assent OTD 17 August in 1836. The act itself came into effect on 1 July, 1837. The Act established the General Register Office and a new system of national registration.
August 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The Registration Act of 1836, officially titled "An Act for Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England", received Royal Assent OTD 17 August in 1836. The act itself came into effect on 1 July, 1837. The Act established the General Register Office and a new system of national registration.
When a parish row in 1834 Ireland leads to the recovery of about a thousand men's names, which might otherwise have been lost. (Names recorded on two posters printed Spring 1834 - parish records don't start until 1838, and no surviving census records for that time/place). #Genealogy #LoveArchives
August 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
When a parish row in 1834 Ireland leads to the recovery of about a thousand men's names, which might otherwise have been lost. (Names recorded on two posters printed Spring 1834 - parish records don't start until 1838, and no surviving census records for that time/place). #Genealogy #LoveArchives
Could the genealogist be described as "anal erotic"?? 🤔 "In terms of psychological motivation, these obsessive collectors of biographical information belong to the same
category of anal-erotic males as the collectors of butterflies, postage stamps, or cigarette cards" www.jstor.org/stable/20023...
category of anal-erotic males as the collectors of butterflies, postage stamps, or cigarette cards" www.jstor.org/stable/20023...
Prosopography on JSTOR
Lawrence Stone, Prosopography, Daedalus, Vol. 100, No. 1, Historical Studies Today (Winter, 1971), pp. 46-79
www.jstor.org
August 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Could the genealogist be described as "anal erotic"?? 🤔 "In terms of psychological motivation, these obsessive collectors of biographical information belong to the same
category of anal-erotic males as the collectors of butterflies, postage stamps, or cigarette cards" www.jstor.org/stable/20023...
category of anal-erotic males as the collectors of butterflies, postage stamps, or cigarette cards" www.jstor.org/stable/20023...
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Tomorrow! The much anticipated follow-up to Joe’s introduction to this subject at our #OnePlaceStudies Conference last November (the recording of which is available via the Members’ Area of our website).
Our next #OnePlaceStudies webinar🔗 for Society members is on Tuesday 12th August, when Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social will follow up his presentation at our Conference last year with “Using Social Network Analysis for #OnePlaceStudies.” Not a member? Join up🔗 and join in! #OnePlaceWednesday
August 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tomorrow! The much anticipated follow-up to Joe’s introduction to this subject at our #OnePlaceStudies Conference last November (the recording of which is available via the Members’ Area of our website).
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Georgina Brooks, a Black woman incarcerated at Mercer, was a victim of systemic racism and institutional neglect. She couldn’t save herself—and like many others, she died behind the walls of the Mercer Reformatory. 1/2
August 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Georgina Brooks, a Black woman incarcerated at Mercer, was a victim of systemic racism and institutional neglect. She couldn’t save herself—and like many others, she died behind the walls of the Mercer Reformatory. 1/2
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This may be
Of interest to my #oneplacestudies friends here on #GenHour. We’re thrilled here at Projectkin.
All events are free. 🥰
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Of interest to my #oneplacestudies friends here on #GenHour. We’re thrilled here at Projectkin.
All events are free. 🥰
open.substack.com/pub/projectk...
Putting a Little History into Family History
Next week, I'm delighted to welcome Substacker, historian, and family historian Lisa Maguire to talk about how micro-history can inform our explorations of our ancestors.
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July 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This may be
Of interest to my #oneplacestudies friends here on #GenHour. We’re thrilled here at Projectkin.
All events are free. 🥰
open.substack.com/pub/projectk...
Of interest to my #oneplacestudies friends here on #GenHour. We’re thrilled here at Projectkin.
All events are free. 🥰
open.substack.com/pub/projectk...