Uh, Eric Schmitt's grandmother was the daughter of an Italian immigrant who arrived in the US in 1913. This was published in 1911. I'm so very very tired. #resistancegenealogy

Update: the best part was that he created a memorial for my mother AND SHE STILL HASN'T BEEN BURIED YET. But I got it taken down. The good guys win sometimes.

Also, Rep. Evan's aunt Jennifer clearly needs to meet Stephen Miller's uncle. I think they'd hit it off.

I may have stepped back from #resistancegenealogy, but it lives on! Chef's kiss. coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/22/u...

Seems about right.

And then one day you might find yourself staring at the building in Krakow where your grandmother was born on this day in 1896.

Thomas Jefferson on the University of Virginia: "[T]his institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. for here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

It's wild because all my FB memories the last couple of days have been about the Sullivan reinstatement. This is a dark day for the UVA community.

folks with signs on the rotunda steps leading a chant of “the whole world is watching”

Need to vent that some fucking ghoul at Findagrave not only created a memorial for my mother, who died at the end of May, but took it upon himself to add a photograph of my father to the memorial *I* manage. Which I can't delete because some other ghoul created it. I will never, ever get this. Ever.

How are those eggs, everyone? www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

YUGE

My mother's impish spirit was apparent even in high school. Where this conventional Jewish girl from the Bronx, headed to Hunter College to become a teacher, declared that her hobby was "exploring" and that she planned to become a...taxidermist. 😜 Rest in peace, Mom.

Since many of you have appreciated the fabulous wit of my mom over the years, I’m sorry to share that she died this morning, aged 94. She was an unforgettable mom, amazing teacher & tireless environmental activist. Her humor, intelligence, beauty & wild sense of fun will be missed.

I am currently desperately trying to reach several people to reunite a 90-year-old survivor with his family. An unfortunate consequence of the world we live in is that so many people immediately assume it must be a scam.

Was quite a moment, a sense we reached some kind of inflection point in U.S. history. You can now personally pay a U.S. president to gain an audience.

My brother @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social on the enduring appeal of Odysseus. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...

You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”

You thought there was big news about the Pope's familly tree *last* week? Pull up a chair. en.geneanet.org/genealogyblo...

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19% are "recruiters" telling me they have the perfect job. The last 1% are my actual texts.

The AI summary of about 80% of my texts:

The National Park Service is being gutted by the Trump administration, but this is the 'unprecedented threat' surrounding battlefield preservation that @battlefields.org wants us to focus on. This is disgraceful. ourenduringlegacy.org

#OnThisDay in 1933, university students, supported by the Nazi Party, instigated book burnings of 'blacklisted' authors across Germany The book burnings stood as a powerful symbol of Nazi intolerance and censorship. #HolocaustExplained buff.ly/VPao61H

Germany mourns the loss of Margot Friedländer, a shining light of the century. She survived the Holocaust and, even at the age of 103, never stopped warning us about the horrors of fascism. "Be a human being" she said. She was a human miracle. Rest in Peace, Margot.

We think so too. 😊

The Trump era has introduced us to some pretty despicable characters. But none infuriated me more than this one, who represented my childhood district, and who appropriated the trauma of the Holocaust and lied about his grandparents being survivors. Absolutely disgusting. apnews.com/article/geor...

This is child survivor Vilunya Diskin (one of the co-authors of "Our Bodies, Ourselves,") and her granddaughter meeting the granddaughter of Anna Ikawy, the woman who hid Vilunya during the Holocaust. Until September, Vilunya had no idea who her own parents were or how she'd been rescued. 1/2

Tonight starts Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here are the names of the 1023 relatives I have traced so far who were murdered in the #Holocaust. Remember them. #YomHashoah #genealogy #FamilyHistory #ancestry larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/04/yom-...

Great. Let's see all this presented as evidence in court then, shall we? Because that's not how we do imprisonment in this here country.

Are we great yet? Just checking periodically.

Mon frère est formidable! (You can join virtually...)

Can someone politely ask Avelo CEO Andrew Levy if he would have approved the flight to deport his own great-grandparents, who lived in Philadelphia for 25 years without ever becoming citizens? K thanks. #resistancegenealogy

Canadian boyfriend is that you?

I wrote about my friend's father, a Holocaust survivor, and how the stories you run the fastest from end up being the only ones that you were inevitably bound to write in the first place. I'm sorry for the delay. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...

Just re-read it. Still astonishing.

Oh look, she said, a cybertruck on the Baltimore beltway. Oh look, she said, with no surprise whatsoever, the cybertruck just cut someone off by exiting right from the middle lane.

Despite dubbing himself the “Father of IVF,” Donald Trump actually WILL NOT be funding federal infertility research. Trump has fired an entire infertility research team at the CDC.

This is your brain on MAGA.

I just realized I spelled her name wrong.

I am having a hard time processing this. What have we wrought?

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

imagine what marginalized people could do if they got 10% of the benefit of the doubt that the media gives these white guys

Saving this because I think it might come in handy over the next couple of years.

Listening to Karoline Levitt deflect and double down today, I would love a reporter to ask her if it’s possible for the president to ever make a mistake. About anything.

In what alternative universe are these the most competent people in the country? 🥴

Hey #Genealogy Bluesky! Irish Genealogy (irishgenealogy.ie) has now added a new year to their collection meaning that you can now search for: - Births up to 1924 - Marriages up to 1949 - Deaths up to 1974 Happy searching!