Deborah Barber
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Deborah Barber
@hexadecibel.bsky.social
Genealogist, New Yorker, and Nerd.

My professional site & blog is https://newtowngenealogy.com
when did they buy MailChimp? Yuck.
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Reposted by Deborah Barber
this doesn't mean the South is hopeless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to win elections and fight the MAGAs in the South, but maintaining this fantasy nonsense about how the South doesn't REALLY have a uniquely racist culture in a number of respects is just foolishness
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I have a transcription of an interview my Grandpa did with his (related) Aunt from Maine where she talks about her "Brevet Aunt." Though since this is Maine, she might still have been distantly related.
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
There’s a Simpson’s episode about that.
October 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I’ve heard that empanadas are a hot topic in South America.
September 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Calvinist Jews , a little known sect.
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Was that how knishes started?
September 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I really liked "Inside Llewyn Davis" except for that part - it reminds me of a recurring bad dream I have of taking my cats out in public and losing them.
September 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM