Tracing Your Origins
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Finding out where we come from, one branch at a time....
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People are seeking books to teach their kids about diversity & belonging. What I hear: They're looking for books from a plethora of perspectives! Here are a few books, you & your kids may already be reading them ☺️
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January 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
People are seeking books to teach their kids about diversity & belonging. What I hear: They're looking for books from a plethora of perspectives! Here are a few books, you & your kids may already be reading them ☺️
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Happy Australia Day! Today holds different meanings for many. Let’s reflect, celebrate, and honour First Nations peoples. Australia’s creativity has shaped the world—Wi-Fi, the black box, spray-on skin, and pavlovas (possibly shared with Kiwis!).
#AustraliaDay #FirstNations #Innovation #Ingenuity
#AustraliaDay #FirstNations #Innovation #Ingenuity
January 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Happy Australia Day! Today holds different meanings for many. Let’s reflect, celebrate, and honour First Nations peoples. Australia’s creativity has shaped the world—Wi-Fi, the black box, spray-on skin, and pavlovas (possibly shared with Kiwis!).
#AustraliaDay #FirstNations #Innovation #Ingenuity
#AustraliaDay #FirstNations #Innovation #Ingenuity
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
January 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
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Los Angeles County Has a Greater Population Than 42 U.S. States and Territories
January 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Los Angeles County Has a Greater Population Than 42 U.S. States and Territories
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The Global Genealogist is a fun blog worth checking out! globalgenealogist.blogspot.com #genchat #genealogy
The Global Genealogist
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January 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The Global Genealogist is a fun blog worth checking out! globalgenealogist.blogspot.com #genchat #genealogy
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#GenChat I'm going to drop this here for people with cameras who are lusting after a scanner. Spoiler: you can use your cameras instead. Saw Peter Krogh via Ontario Ancestors, great talk, here's a free version.
www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/vide...
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Scanning Photos with Your Camera: Peter Krogh
Your digital camera can be used to make very high-quality scans of film and prints at unprecedented speed and cost. These techniques are in use in the Library of Congress, at major museums, and in pho...
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January 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
#GenChat I'm going to drop this here for people with cameras who are lusting after a scanner. Spoiler: you can use your cameras instead. Saw Peter Krogh via Ontario Ancestors, great talk, here's a free version.
www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/vide...
www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/vide...
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I love it when I find an obituary that includes the parents names (including the mother's birth name), the wife's birth name, the names of all four sons and their wives including all their birth names!!!! Makes doing descendancy research so much easier!
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
January 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I love it when I find an obituary that includes the parents names (including the mother's birth name), the wife's birth name, the names of all four sons and their wives including all their birth names!!!! Makes doing descendancy research so much easier!
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review
DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
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Do you keep a list of your names and how they were pronounced? That was yesterday's #genealogy tip of the day genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/20...
A Pronunciation List - Genealogy Tip of the Day
Keep a document that has a listing of the various ways your various ancestral names can actually be pronounced. A list of spellings is not a bad idea either but knowing various ways a name could have ...
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January 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Do you keep a list of your names and how they were pronounced? That was yesterday's #genealogy tip of the day genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/20...
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The Rootstech schedule is out!
You need to log in to see it all and then you can add classes to your schedule. I'll post up my scheduled sessions shortly.
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...
You need to log in to see it all and then you can add classes to your schedule. I'll post up my scheduled sessions shortly.
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...
January 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Rootstech schedule is out!
You need to log in to see it all and then you can add classes to your schedule. I'll post up my scheduled sessions shortly.
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...
You need to log in to see it all and then you can add classes to your schedule. I'll post up my scheduled sessions shortly.
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...
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"A letter home" Documentary about a new archive at the University of Galway preserving the letters of thousands of emigrants going back hundreds of years. (repeat broadcast) www.rte.ie/radio/radio/... "With the help of God and the White Star line, we'll be reunited soon" #Genealogy
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Ireland's Number One. News, arts, drama, music, documentary and debate on 88-90FM, LW252, online, digital radio, satellite, iOS and Android.
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January 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"A letter home" Documentary about a new archive at the University of Galway preserving the letters of thousands of emigrants going back hundreds of years. (repeat broadcast) www.rte.ie/radio/radio/... "With the help of God and the White Star line, we'll be reunited soon" #Genealogy
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#OnePlaceWednesday
This year I hope I can learn from #RootsTech and elsewhere how to research enslaved persons, so I can have a full picture of the communities I'm doing research in.
#LocalHistory and place studies enrich #genealogy and #FamilyHistory.
This year I hope I can learn from #RootsTech and elsewhere how to research enslaved persons, so I can have a full picture of the communities I'm doing research in.
#LocalHistory and place studies enrich #genealogy and #FamilyHistory.
January 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
#OnePlaceWednesday
This year I hope I can learn from #RootsTech and elsewhere how to research enslaved persons, so I can have a full picture of the communities I'm doing research in.
#LocalHistory and place studies enrich #genealogy and #FamilyHistory.
This year I hope I can learn from #RootsTech and elsewhere how to research enslaved persons, so I can have a full picture of the communities I'm doing research in.
#LocalHistory and place studies enrich #genealogy and #FamilyHistory.
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We were so honored to work with Vilunya, a hidden child of the Holocaust, to give her back her identity and her story.
Her extraordinary case illustrates the incredible power of DNA to solve even the most intractable genealogical mysteries and bring peace and closure to survivors.
Her extraordinary case illustrates the incredible power of DNA to solve even the most intractable genealogical mysteries and bring peace and closure to survivors.
Vilunya Diskin’s earliest memory is fleeing the genocidal violence convulsing much of Europe. Eight decades later, she finally found out who she really is.
‘It’s like a rebirth’: At 83, a feminist icon from Jamaica Plain unravels a Holocaust family mystery - The Boston Globe
Vilunya Diskin has lived in Greater Boston since the '60s, and in her 20s, she was a member of a local 13-member collective that wrote “Our Bodies, Ourselves."
www.bostonglobe.com
January 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We were so honored to work with Vilunya, a hidden child of the Holocaust, to give her back her identity and her story.
Her extraordinary case illustrates the incredible power of DNA to solve even the most intractable genealogical mysteries and bring peace and closure to survivors.
Her extraordinary case illustrates the incredible power of DNA to solve even the most intractable genealogical mysteries and bring peace and closure to survivors.
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What a week at the HRP.
Today we're featured in @hadassahorg.bsky.social Magazine!
www.hadassahmagazine.org/2025/01/08/d...
Today we're featured in @hadassahorg.bsky.social Magazine!
www.hadassahmagazine.org/2025/01/08/d...
DNA Testing Adds Branches to Holocaust Survivors’ Family Trees
Thanks to the Holocaust Reunion Project, long-lost relatives can be reunited or meet for the first time.
www.hadassahmagazine.org
January 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What a week at the HRP.
Today we're featured in @hadassahorg.bsky.social Magazine!
www.hadassahmagazine.org/2025/01/08/d...
Today we're featured in @hadassahorg.bsky.social Magazine!
www.hadassahmagazine.org/2025/01/08/d...
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Hi new followers! Yes, I loved Schoolhouse Rock. But you know what I really love? Using DNA to help Holocaust survivors find family. The project I co-founded, @holocaustreunions.bsky.social, was featured on the front page of the @bostonglobe.com this Sunday. Please give us a follow here/FB/IG. Thx!
January 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Hi new followers! Yes, I loved Schoolhouse Rock. But you know what I really love? Using DNA to help Holocaust survivors find family. The project I co-founded, @holocaustreunions.bsky.social, was featured on the front page of the @bostonglobe.com this Sunday. Please give us a follow here/FB/IG. Thx!
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Sometimes I come across groups of ancestors who drowned, or died in a typhus outbreak, something similar. The grief is almost palpable, across generations.
When I feel that, the only things I can do is cry, or dance. Sometimes it’s just necessary.
When I feel that, the only things I can do is cry, or dance. Sometimes it’s just necessary.
January 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Sometimes I come across groups of ancestors who drowned, or died in a typhus outbreak, something similar. The grief is almost palpable, across generations.
When I feel that, the only things I can do is cry, or dance. Sometimes it’s just necessary.
When I feel that, the only things I can do is cry, or dance. Sometimes it’s just necessary.
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People do get listed twice in some #genealogy records. My Grandma's listed twice in 1930--once with her parents and once in the house where she's working out. Her brother and his wife are listed twice also--apparently because they had just moved. genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/20...
Twice as Nice - Genealogy Tip of the Day
In many record sets an ancestor’s name should appear only once, but there are exceptions. People get “double counted” in census records regularly–sometimes because they moved and other times because t...
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January 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
People do get listed twice in some #genealogy records. My Grandma's listed twice in 1930--once with her parents and once in the house where she's working out. Her brother and his wife are listed twice also--apparently because they had just moved. genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/20...
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Here's the release date trailer for "The Roottrees are Dead", which is coming to Steam on January 15, 2025.
youtu.be/hspBJQ0X90Q
It also includes a brand new mystery called "Roottreemania" with a whole new family tree to fill out and many fun puzzles to solve!
youtu.be/hspBJQ0X90Q
It also includes a brand new mystery called "Roottreemania" with a whole new family tree to fill out and many fun puzzles to solve!
"The Roottrees are Dead" Steam Trailer
YouTube video by eviltrout
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October 3, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Here's the release date trailer for "The Roottrees are Dead", which is coming to Steam on January 15, 2025.
youtu.be/hspBJQ0X90Q
It also includes a brand new mystery called "Roottreemania" with a whole new family tree to fill out and many fun puzzles to solve!
youtu.be/hspBJQ0X90Q
It also includes a brand new mystery called "Roottreemania" with a whole new family tree to fill out and many fun puzzles to solve!
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For US #Genealogy folks, new season of #FindingYourRoots with Henry Louis Gates begins on Tuesday! #FamilyHistory www.ninepbs.org/blogs/histor...
Finding Your Roots Season 11
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January 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
For US #Genealogy folks, new season of #FindingYourRoots with Henry Louis Gates begins on Tuesday! #FamilyHistory www.ninepbs.org/blogs/histor...
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Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog photography of the library in Mellerstain House, near Kelso. Designed for George Baillie, born 1664, died 1738, and his wife Lady Grisell, born 1665, died 1746 tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2015/12/old-...
Old Photograph Library Mellerstain House Scotland
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January 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog photography of the library in Mellerstain House, near Kelso. Designed for George Baillie, born 1664, died 1738, and his wife Lady Grisell, born 1665, died 1746 tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2015/12/old-...
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Have a wee visit to a tour #Scotland travel video Blog of old #Scottish #ancestry #history #genealogy photography of Muasdale in Argyll. Gaelic : Muasdal, it takes its name from the Norse mungasdal, the valley of monks tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2018/10/tour...
Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Muasdale Kintyre Peninsula
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December 30, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Have a wee visit to a tour #Scotland travel video Blog of old #Scottish #ancestry #history #genealogy photography of Muasdale in Argyll. Gaelic : Muasdal, it takes its name from the Norse mungasdal, the valley of monks tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2018/10/tour...
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Always a popular post It’s time to get organised.......see how I organise my Family Tree files Organising Your Family
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#Genealogy #Ancestry #Ancestors #organising #FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #BloggersTribe
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#Genealogy #Ancestry #Ancestors #organising #FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #BloggersTribe
Organising Your Family History
I recently shared online some pictures of my Family Tree Filing system and organisation and it proved to be popular amongst fellow Family History Researchers, so I thought I would expand and explai…
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December 30, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Always a popular post It’s time to get organised.......see how I organise my Family Tree files Organising Your Family
chiddicksfamilytree.com/2020/01/30/o...
#Genealogy #Ancestry #Ancestors #organising #FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #BloggersTribe
chiddicksfamilytree.com/2020/01/30/o...
#Genealogy #Ancestry #Ancestors #organising #FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #BloggersTribe
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It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️
December 28, 2024 at 11:26 AM
It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️