Sean Vanderfluit
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deckofancestors.bsky.social
Sean Vanderfluit
@deckofancestors.bsky.social
I've been doing #genealogy since I was eight. I created this account along with "A Deck of Ancestors" blog, for participating in Amy Johnson Crow's #52Ancestors Challenge. (I'm also @vanderfluit.bsky.social)

Canada - https://deckofancestors.wordpress.com/
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I started the #52Ancestors Challenge in January 2022 over at the dead bird site, so Week 1 of my first year of participating isn't here. So I thought I should re-share the genesis of this account and provide a bit of a reintroduction. #genealogy

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More Than a Full Deck
Here’s the deal…
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The @bcgs.bsky.social participates in The Holten Project, writing biographies of Canadian soldiers with BC as their home province who are buried at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery in The Netherlands. Here's a recent contribution by my son and me. Private Willard Ellison, RIP. #RemembranceDay
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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It's now been 80 years since the liberation of the Netherlands, but this @globalnews.ca documentary remains as poignant as ever.

(Reminder - our next #BCGS monthly meeting is about Canada and the Netherlands) #genealogy #FamilyHistory #LestWeForget

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75 Years Later: The Sounds of Freedom
YouTube video by Global News
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November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Kudos to @globalnews.ca in Vancouver, which for many years has provided exemplary coverage of the Remembrance Day ceremonies at Victory Square. Thank you.
a field of red poppies with the words `` lest we forget '' written in the background .
ALT: a field of red poppies with the words `` lest we forget '' written in the background .
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November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Did you miss Linda Yip's "Getting started in Chinese genealogy: Chinese surnames for beginners"? Watch before Dec 7!
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#WikiTreeSymposium2025
#WikiTreeSymposium2025 feat Linda Yip
Getting started in Chinese genealogy: Chinese surnames for beginners Linda Yip Handout: Summary: Do you struggle to get started in Chinese Canadian genealogy? Are you baffled by the information on…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I agree with the sentiment, but they just gotta be done.

When I get around to it. 🤣

#genealogy #FamilyHistory
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I was looking for this graphic the other day. Now that I no longer need it, I came across it. #Homestead #genealogy #FamilyHistory
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Today would have been my grandparent's 77th wedding anniversary. So almost 40 years since the big surprise party we had for them for their 40th. 😬

Adrianus Joseph “Arie” van der Fluit (1923 – 2002) and Christina (“Tiny”) Komen (1923 – 2000)

#genealogy #FamilyHistory
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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One thing I love about #genealogy is that making a breakthrough can often lead to a bigger, more baffling problem. #ancestry #history #familysearch
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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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
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Egad! After many months of being weeks behind in the #52Ancestors Challenge for 2025, I not only caught up, but I jumped the gun on Week 46, with my Gx3 Grandmother, Anastasia Wormsbecker #genealogy #FamilyHistory

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November 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
After months of being weeks behind, I've finally caught up with this year's #52Ancestors Challenge! I know so little about my maternal grandmother's great grandparents, it should be easy to keep up. I start with Franz Lerner. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
My Great Great Grandmother, Margaret Heck, was born on April 1. I doubt she had any idea of what that signified or that she would have cared. She certainly didn't sound like a fool. #52Ancestors #genealogy #FamilyHistory

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November 4, 2025 at 6:27 AM
My Gx2 Grandfather, Jacob Anton, left the Russian Empire for Canada in 1912. Four years later, he and his brother returned to sell land they still had there. They were lucky to get out before the Revolution. #52Ancestors #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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November 3, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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The village of Spöck, Germany must immediately be paired with Vulcan, Alberta as a sister-city.
November 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The beginning and end of the story of my Great x2 Grandmother, Barbara Schmidt is a big enigmatic, but the middle part is pretty clear. 😆 #52Ancestors #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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November 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Pity we found this after Halloween, but it's still funny!

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Bloodline – War and Peas – Webcomic
A vampire discovers German blood in his ancestry—literally. A darkly funny comic by War and Peas on historical humor and vampire antics.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I'm trying to find out more about the person who took this photo, "ФОТОГРАФЪ ХАДАКЪ" ("Photographer Khadak" or "Hadak"). Probably around 1875. 1/x
November 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Get ready for more of this. MAGA will do everything it can to reject, refuse, or block its elected opponents from taking their offices - if their gerrymandering and voter suppression even lets their opponents win.

Actually, not will, have, since they they tried to do it after the 2020 election.
In Opinion

Adelita Grijalva won a special election in September to serve as a Democratic congresswoman. But Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in. “Such is the essence of Trumpist leadership: If you don’t support my tribe, you deserve to be ignored, even punished,” Michelle Cottle says.
Opinion | Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her.
Mike Johnson, the speaker, won’t swear in the Democratic representative-elect from Arizona.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
My Great Grandfather Michael Lerner, who was of German heritage, emigrated twice - first from the Russian Empire to the United States, and later from the US to Canada. #52Ancestors #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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October 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Coming into the home stretch of this year's #52Ancestors Challenge, I embark on the final suit of this year's deck, featuring my Great Grandparents, Jerome Lerner and Emelia Anton. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #GermansFromRussia

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October 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM