The next time someone comes at me calling the spelling on a manifest proof of a “name change”, I’m showing them this #Genealogist #NameChange #MythBusting #Historian #Genealogy

This makes my stomach hurt, and is a different sort from the above altogether; seven Pennsylvania born children who were killed in an air raid after their parents moved back to Germany in 1940 (cue my side eye). Parents & infant brother also died. (Cont) #genealogy #WWII #history

The death of 85-year-old Adolph Cohen in 1941 Berlin is particularly sobering. I followed up on the fates of his siblings; Rebekka & Max would be dead by the end of 1941, & Hermann 1943 in Theresienstadt. A fourth sibling, Herta, lived out her life in Australia. #genealogy #Holocaust #HISTORY #WWII

A different sort of WWII-era death, with the additional notation indicating he was a former US citizen. He enlisted in the Canadian Army simultaneously with his brothers, of whom two also fell fighting. Their mother was the first mother awarded for this sacrifice in Canada. #genealogy #history #WWII

The official report of this American woman’s death in the Theresienstadt Ghetto had a complex & telling path to make its way to the state department. And yet people argue with me daily that “the US government didn’t know about the Holocaust #genealogy #historian #WWII #Holocaust #GenocideStudies

For example; the 1943 Swiss reported death of a Chicago-born Polish-American teacher in Auschwitz, where she had been under “protective custody”. #genealogy #HolocaustStudies #WWII #historian

100 years ago (Dec 3, 1924) Betsy Pennick of Essex, age 106, was looking for a husband like the men she used to meet in the “good old Victorian days” #history #100yearsago #newspaper #historian #genealogist

Another #HistoricalTidbit for the feed- One way to handle a man saying somewhere is “No place for a woman”! From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 21, 1912. One of the only articles on the page not about the Titanic. #feminist #herstory #womenshistory #historian #history #genealogist

And a third- same month and year, different ship, with an Englishman who might be my only example of an “accidental stowaway”- I suspect he gave the inspectors a bit of a laugh at the time. #genealogy #historian #maritimehistory

And another, this one from 1905, which gave a peek into the life of the world’s most interesting stowaway. #genealogy #historian

Realized I ought to populate my feed, so here are some of my favorite interviews from the collection of the Philadelphia Board of Special Inquiry- this is an unexpectedly sweet one from 1909 #genealogy #historian