I "come from the land of the ice and snow From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow"! Led Zeppelin. Yes, Iceland! October 2025 #AncestryDNA update. #Genealogy

#TicketStubTuesday: [Missing Ticket] The Beach Boys – December 27, 1976 – The San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California. NOTE: My first concert! Also, note the Olympic rings; the summer games just finished in Montreal four months earlier.

I joined a new #genealogy society: ​Mobile Creole Cultural and Historical Preservation Society. I am descended from some of the original Creoles in Mobile, #Alabama. Website: mobilecreolesociety.weebly.com

Find a Grave Tip: Make sure your reflection isn't on the stone! 🤣 This was a trip I took in 2022 to Conecuh County, Alabama. Not a relative, just thought it was cool with a picture of him with a guitar. #FG #FindaGrave #Genealogy #FindaGraveFriday

#FridayFunny #TGIF

Happy Birthday, Meagan Smolenyak Smolenyak!

Transcriptions gone awry. "Secret Operator Hawking", ummm, nope. #Genealogy

Feeling overwhelmed by your DNA matches? Join me for my free Legacy Family Tree webinar and learn practical strategies to cut through the clutter, focus on the right matches, and make steady progress in your family history. Click to register and start organizing today! hubs.la/Q03MjFqH0 #genealogy

#TicketStubTuesday: Rush – November 21, 2012 – Valley View Casino Center, San Diego, California.

RIP Jane Goodall. Pic of my original National Geographic December 1965 issue.

Tis’ the season… Put away the genealogy books and break out the #Halloween books! #October #Books

#WeirdWednesday ...And as Fox Mulder would say, "I want to believe".

There were three Seminole Indian Wars in Florida between 1817 and 1858 to force the original people off their lands by the US government for the sake of settlers. It's heartbreaking to learn my direct ancestor and cousin was part of that, but I'm just a genealogist learning about history #Genealogy

#TicketStubTuesday: 1st. Marine Division Band – January 31, 2014 – California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California. #Oorah #NewYearsEve

RIP Robert Redford.

Finally, a #WikiTree connection that is right! My 5th. great-granduncle married Nancy Ann Boone (a cousin of Daniel Boone). Family lore always said they knew Daniel Boone and that he took them across the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky.

#NeverForget #PatriotsDay

Happy birthday, Mom! Daughter of Sammie Redford Galloway and Maggie Lucille Gowens. Born in Huntington Beach, California. She was the first child of her family to be born in California. Her siblings and parents were all born in Texas.

Transcribing letters: I tried 3 AI platforms, ChatGPT, Transkribus, and Evernote AI Transcribe, and all of them couldn't get it right. I guess I'll go back to doing it myself. sigh 😞 #Genealogy #GetErDone

Today is #GrandparentsDay

John E. Rose death certificate. Cause: "Over come by heat". Duration: "Dropped dead". Contributory: "Age". He was 85 yrs. old. Yes, there was a major heat wave in the U.S. in 1911: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Ea... He was my maternal 1st. cousin, 3x removed. #Genealogy

Do you have #DNA questions about your #FamilyHistory? Check out this website by @yourdnaguide.bsky.social for your answers. #Genealogy #GeneticGenealogy my.yourdnaguide.com/c/start-here/

#TicketStubTuesday: Ace Frehley – Opening acts, Brett Ellis Band, Taz Taylor Band, – November 22, 2019 – Ramona Mainstage, Ramona, California.

#TicketStubTuesday: Pat Travers – Opening acts, Brett Ellis Band, The Taz Taylor Band, LoNero – August 26, 2011 – Ramona Mainstage, Ramona, California.

Sad news in the Genealogy community... Schelly Talay Dardashtii has passed away. I had the privilege of meeting her and seeing her at various #genealogy events over the years. Below: At dinner in 2016, Burbank. GeneaBloggers photo at SCGS Genealogy Jamboree 2014. Photo by Gini Webb.

New books acquired... Both 1st. editions, with William Dollarhide's book signed! #Genealogy

A bio I wrote for my great-grandaunt with help from AI. She was my grandfather's aunt. open.substack.com/pub/paulhawt... #Genealogy

I'm having fun using ChatGPT to help me write bios on Find a Grave memorials that I manage. This was a sad one though... #Genealogy www.findagrave.com/memorial/260...

Throwback Thursday: 1984 - just out of high school.

A bio on my maternal 3/4 great-grandaunt. What, 3/4?! 🤣 #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #PedigreeCollapse www.geneaspy.com/2025/08/char...

While on my 2nd. day of scanning old photos from my uncle Tom's collection, I found a picture of him and my grandfather, J. B., on a business trip to New York in the late 1950s. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

#TicketStubTuesday: Alabama Shakes – Opening act, Blake Mills – August 12, 2015 - Cal Coast Credit Union SDSU Open Air Theatre, San Diego, California.

#MotivationalMonday: Scanning old family photos. #GetRDone #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

All the wives on this census page are listed simply as "Mrs." This is the first time I've seen this. Source: Year: 1870; Census Place: Cold Spring, Shelby, Illinois; Roll: M593_277; Page: 54A #Genealogy

👽 #FridayFunny

#TicketStubTuesday: The Osmonds – Opening act, Muench – October 28, 1977 - The San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California. NOTE: Ticket stub missing

Did a bad address creep into your #familytree? I had one that came from a "reliable" #genealogy source! Here's how to find them. family-tree-advice.blogspot.com/2025/07/loca...

Genealogy in early America wasn’t just about ancestry—it shaped freedom, power & identity. Historian Karin Wulf joins us to explore how lineage helped early Americans define themselves. 🎧 Listen: benfranklinsworld.com/416 #History #Genealogy #USHistory #VastEarlyAmerica

Using Steve Little's AI Fact Extractor on ChatGPT: open.substack.com/pub/paulhawt... #Genealogy #AI @digitalarchivst.bsky.social

#GeneaSpy blog post: Biography of William Samuel Galloway (1811–1901) Pioneer, Farmer, Postmaster, and Patriarch of Texas. www.geneaspy.com/2025/07/will... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Birthday Road Trip: 8 hours and 334 miles. Went up mountains and through clouds, across the desert floor, past the Salton Sea, to the sand dunes. Saw Arizona, saw Mexico, talked to a border patrol agent, saw wind turbines, cows, a roadrunner, and a camel.

RIP #OZZY One of the founders of Heavy Metal music and a big part of my life. Glad to have seen him in concert in 1982 and 1984.

3 *FREE* webinars from the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research this month! Register here: ighr.gagensociety.org/ighr-2025/ev... #Genealogy #IGHR #GGS @ighrgenealogy.bsky.social

#TicketStubTuesday: 1. Peter Gabriel – Opening act, Ayub Ogada – July 23, 1993 – San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California. Ticket stub missing!

Find a Grave idea: Request new pictures if it's blurry, not the whole monument, or has bird poop on it! 🤣 #findagrave #genealogy

Found out my cousin, Frances D. Hawthorne, was the Chief Nurse on Ellis Island in 1920! She also worked at Veterans hospitals in Chicago and San Mateo, CA. More on the Ellis Island Hospital: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_I... #Genealogy

Happy Birthday, Brian May! #Queen