Edward A. Rueda
@mredwardrueda.bsky.social
I can't stress enough how awesome 1940s.nyc. My Grandma's cousins helped to found a Reform temple in the 1920s, the East Flatbush Jewish Community Center. 1940s.nyc made me realize that the present church expanded on the original building.
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I can't stress enough how awesome 1940s.nyc. My Grandma's cousins helped to found a Reform temple in the 1920s, the East Flatbush Jewish Community Center. 1940s.nyc made me realize that the present church expanded on the original building.
he's holding up her cloak to shield the severed Medusa head?!? -- it's like a cuddling Norman Rockwell couple on acid 😂
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
he's holding up her cloak to shield the severed Medusa head?!? -- it's like a cuddling Norman Rockwell couple on acid 😂
And the orange lines were little pumpkins!!!!! 🎃
November 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
And the orange lines were little pumpkins!!!!! 🎃
I voted early at Erasmus Hall High, which is next to the Flatbush African Burial Ground, a colonial-era graveyard for enslaved and free Black people.
Voting is a fundamental U.S. right. Go do it!
Voting is a fundamental U.S. right. Go do it!
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I voted early at Erasmus Hall High, which is next to the Flatbush African Burial Ground, a colonial-era graveyard for enslaved and free Black people.
Voting is a fundamental U.S. right. Go do it!
Voting is a fundamental U.S. right. Go do it!
Manning is too good for Sliwa. He deserves a showdown with the man, the legend, the finalboss of last-party candidacies: Jimmy McMillan.
October 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Manning is too good for Sliwa. He deserves a showdown with the man, the legend, the finalboss of last-party candidacies: Jimmy McMillan.
Qui résout le braquage du Louvre? Seules les bonnes réponses sont possibles.
October 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Qui résout le braquage du Louvre? Seules les bonnes réponses sont possibles.
I also love how Ancestry gives Ashkenazi Jews the same geographical range as... the Golden Horde?
October 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I also love how Ancestry gives Ashkenazi Jews the same geographical range as... the Golden Horde?
It was funny to see Ancestry try to distinguish between "Ashkenazi Jews in Central and Southeastern Europe" and "Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe & Russia" and both sides of my Mom's family had both groups pretty interchangeably.
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It was funny to see Ancestry try to distinguish between "Ashkenazi Jews in Central and Southeastern Europe" and "Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe & Russia" and both sides of my Mom's family had both groups pretty interchangeably.
"I found the best cheap 101+ deals at Gimbels for under $1 -- you won't believe #14!"
October 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"I found the best cheap 101+ deals at Gimbels for under $1 -- you won't believe #14!"
Here's Villanueva's statue of its town "founder," Antonio de la Torre y Miranda (but it was a former Indigenous village, Timiriguaco / Chimirihuaco).
Antonio reestablished 43 towns in Caribbean Colombia and forcibly resettled 43,000 people from 1774-1778.
Photo by Maximiliano Orozco Álvarez.
Antonio reestablished 43 towns in Caribbean Colombia and forcibly resettled 43,000 people from 1774-1778.
Photo by Maximiliano Orozco Álvarez.
September 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Here's Villanueva's statue of its town "founder," Antonio de la Torre y Miranda (but it was a former Indigenous village, Timiriguaco / Chimirihuaco).
Antonio reestablished 43 towns in Caribbean Colombia and forcibly resettled 43,000 people from 1774-1778.
Photo by Maximiliano Orozco Álvarez.
Antonio reestablished 43 towns in Caribbean Colombia and forcibly resettled 43,000 people from 1774-1778.
Photo by Maximiliano Orozco Álvarez.
So this is a 2025 AI summary
of a 1923 transcription
of an 1833 transcription
of an 1803 copy
of the original 1775 record! 🤯
This is just one of the many wonders I'll talk about in my #RootsTech talk on using AI to find and sift through Latin American notarial records 😉
rootstech.org
of a 1923 transcription
of an 1833 transcription
of an 1803 copy
of the original 1775 record! 🤯
This is just one of the many wonders I'll talk about in my #RootsTech talk on using AI to find and sift through Latin American notarial records 😉
rootstech.org
September 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
So this is a 2025 AI summary
of a 1923 transcription
of an 1833 transcription
of an 1803 copy
of the original 1775 record! 🤯
This is just one of the many wonders I'll talk about in my #RootsTech talk on using AI to find and sift through Latin American notarial records 😉
rootstech.org
of a 1923 transcription
of an 1833 transcription
of an 1803 copy
of the original 1775 record! 🤯
This is just one of the many wonders I'll talk about in my #RootsTech talk on using AI to find and sift through Latin American notarial records 😉
rootstech.org
250 years ago today (Sept. 27, 1775), the governor of Cartagena signed the founding document of the town of Villanueva, Bolívar Department, Colombia. Relatives of mine have lived there since.
This summer, I found a copy of this document in Cartagena's notarial records and made an AI summary of it:
This summer, I found a copy of this document in Cartagena's notarial records and made an AI summary of it:
September 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
250 years ago today (Sept. 27, 1775), the governor of Cartagena signed the founding document of the town of Villanueva, Bolívar Department, Colombia. Relatives of mine have lived there since.
This summer, I found a copy of this document in Cartagena's notarial records and made an AI summary of it:
This summer, I found a copy of this document in Cartagena's notarial records and made an AI summary of it:
MARCH 2026: Don't miss my online #RootsTech talk on Searching for Latin American #Genealogy on FamilySearch.org! Sign up for free (or register for the in-person conference): rootstech.org
September 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
MARCH 2026: Don't miss my online #RootsTech talk on Searching for Latin American #Genealogy on FamilySearch.org! Sign up for free (or register for the in-person conference): rootstech.org
Just finished "The Pity of It All" by Amos Elon. Fantastic book, and yes, the 1932-1933 chapter is unsettling.
Also fascinating to read of the 19th-century German Jews who felt a Christmas tree was a secular German custom, akin to Fourth of July fireworks: www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-...
Also fascinating to read of the 19th-century German Jews who felt a Christmas tree was a secular German custom, akin to Fourth of July fireworks: www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-...
September 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Just finished "The Pity of It All" by Amos Elon. Fantastic book, and yes, the 1932-1933 chapter is unsettling.
Also fascinating to read of the 19th-century German Jews who felt a Christmas tree was a secular German custom, akin to Fourth of July fireworks: www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-...
Also fascinating to read of the 19th-century German Jews who felt a Christmas tree was a secular German custom, akin to Fourth of July fireworks: www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-...
Hot damn! - Here's ChatGPT extracting info from an 1864 civil marriage record, and here's a partial page of the original record. I am floored. 👰🤵🇨🇴‼️
September 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Hot damn! - Here's ChatGPT extracting info from an 1864 civil marriage record, and here's a partial page of the original record. I am floored. 👰🤵🇨🇴‼️
😱 I used ChatGPT & Claude today to instantly summarize and translate some intimidating, multi-page 19th-century Colombian legal documents!
All thanks to FamilySearch's plentiful, free digitalization and OCR postings!
At least #genealogy lets me feel the Wonder of Tomorrow! 🛸
All thanks to FamilySearch's plentiful, free digitalization and OCR postings!
At least #genealogy lets me feel the Wonder of Tomorrow! 🛸
September 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
😱 I used ChatGPT & Claude today to instantly summarize and translate some intimidating, multi-page 19th-century Colombian legal documents!
All thanks to FamilySearch's plentiful, free digitalization and OCR postings!
At least #genealogy lets me feel the Wonder of Tomorrow! 🛸
All thanks to FamilySearch's plentiful, free digitalization and OCR postings!
At least #genealogy lets me feel the Wonder of Tomorrow! 🛸
If you upload images to Google Translate it does a decent preliminary job... the last word seems to be "autexousios," free will.
August 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If you upload images to Google Translate it does a decent preliminary job... the last word seems to be "autexousios," free will.
Here were Cookie Monster and Elmo standing at attention during the National Anthem at Citi Field tonight 🫡
August 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Here were Cookie Monster and Elmo standing at attention during the National Anthem at Citi Field tonight 🫡
When the NY Times did Pope Leo's family tree someone who didn't understand genealogy commented what's that thing that looks like a toilet 💀
August 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
When the NY Times did Pope Leo's family tree someone who didn't understand genealogy commented what's that thing that looks like a toilet 💀
Cleaning up files, found this 1950 clipping: 88-year-old Annie Colson of Houston, Texas met up with *92* of her descendants, including her baby 3rd-great-granddaughter, and they took a SIX-GENERATION photo! Annie immigrated from Scotland in 1865.
Here's the photo! www.findagrave.com/memorial/358...
Here's the photo! www.findagrave.com/memorial/358...
August 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Cleaning up files, found this 1950 clipping: 88-year-old Annie Colson of Houston, Texas met up with *92* of her descendants, including her baby 3rd-great-granddaughter, and they took a SIX-GENERATION photo! Annie immigrated from Scotland in 1865.
Here's the photo! www.findagrave.com/memorial/358...
Here's the photo! www.findagrave.com/memorial/358...
I'm honored to be one of your few, the mighty, the proud.
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I'm honored to be one of your few, the mighty, the proud.
How ancient is the family tree of Confucius? His 33rd-great-grandson lived in AD 626! #genealogy #MetMuseum
August 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
How ancient is the family tree of Confucius? His 33rd-great-grandson lived in AD 626! #genealogy #MetMuseum
Ah, Antony and Cleopatra... a love story for the ages!
July 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ah, Antony and Cleopatra... a love story for the ages!
I loved having James Hampton's "Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly" as my Bluesky banner for a couple years, but MAN the "Greetings from NuevaYol" title in the new Bad Bunny video is 🧑🍳<mwah>
July 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I loved having James Hampton's "Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly" as my Bluesky banner for a couple years, but MAN the "Greetings from NuevaYol" title in the new Bad Bunny video is 🧑🍳<mwah>
...using bricks made and laid by enslaved people. 😔
This Gomez Mill House in Marlboro, NY is the "oldest standing Jewish dwelling in North America," since its first owner, Luis Moses Gomez, was Sephardic. It's about a mile from Wolvert Ecker's grave (and closed for renovations): www.gomez.org
This Gomez Mill House in Marlboro, NY is the "oldest standing Jewish dwelling in North America," since its first owner, Luis Moses Gomez, was Sephardic. It's about a mile from Wolvert Ecker's grave (and closed for renovations): www.gomez.org
July 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
...using bricks made and laid by enslaved people. 😔
This Gomez Mill House in Marlboro, NY is the "oldest standing Jewish dwelling in North America," since its first owner, Luis Moses Gomez, was Sephardic. It's about a mile from Wolvert Ecker's grave (and closed for renovations): www.gomez.org
This Gomez Mill House in Marlboro, NY is the "oldest standing Jewish dwelling in North America," since its first owner, Luis Moses Gomez, was Sephardic. It's about a mile from Wolvert Ecker's grave (and closed for renovations): www.gomez.org