Two different error messages I've received whilst trying to do #genealogy over the last 2 days. I'm just too fast to be an actual human! Seriously though, this stuff is extremely irritating. Let me work!! Let me cook!! #AncestryHour

These fucking demons told me that my neighbor wanted to eat my dog and now they want to talk about social trust evaporating

The "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary" message in Adobe Acrobat is so insulting. Let me use my own brain! Let me skim!

Love the close-up shot of toasted ravs in this article - yum 😋 www.irishnews.com/life/holiday...

#genealogy #FamilyHistory tip: Search on a female ancestor's married name in FamilySearch full-text search. You might find her mentioned in a relative's will. I was able to find a female ancestor's maiden name this way, mentioned in her father's will (her marriage record is lost/missing).

Very cool: Historical #DNA connects 1.3 million living relatives to 17th-century Maryland settlers and may have identified the colony’s second governor www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #genealogy

I truly can't stand how stupid so many of my fellow Americans are. Just so unbelievably sheltered and brainrotted. I know that social media, conservative media, and religion is to blame for much of this, but the enjoyment that they get out of being so dumb? I can't. I CAN'T.

www.stlmag.com/Ask-STL-Mag/ Guilty as charged - I pronounce sundae as "sunduh"

#ancestryhour #genealogy Over the past few days I've been looking up various 1C3Rs and 1C4Rs in the recently released 1926 Ireland Census. Now I have a few more pieces of the puzzle for my East Cork Cronins and Brodericks including an unexpected detour to Welsh coal country.

When someone's 1901 and 1911 Irish Census records say they were born in County Cork, but their 1926 census record says they were born in Wales. #genealogy #FamilyHistory (Down the rabbit hole we go!)

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE. Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

NEW: We have the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Now is the time to use it. It's past time for Trump to be removed from office. This is a global crisis. It's time for J.D. Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Now, at Law Dork:

Will I go to church? No. But I will blast these hymns on Easter morning. 🐣🎶 open.spotify.com/track/6AWr34...

Hello #GenHour! My husband and I bought a condo and are in the process of moving, so not a lot of research to report lately, but it seems like I am getting a higher-than-usual number of matches on Ancestry this winter/spring. Mostly low cM, of course. But plenty of matches per week. Anyone else?

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

This is the official song of The World Cup 2026?!? 😲 This is an abomination. open.spotify.com/track/3i5yV3...

Oh my gosh these doggies 🥹

#genealogy #AncestryHour This past weekend while watching a #RootsTech video I realized I had not yet searched on Matricula for the much-desired baptism record of my German Catholic ancestor Barbara Triebswetter. This record is not indexed anywhere AKAIK. But I found it!! How?

Obama: Every day you wake up to things you just didn’t think were possible. Each day we’re told by those in high office to fear each other. Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated, and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength.

#RootsTech #genealogy Attending online per usual... Has anyone else noticed that the comments in the chat box on videos get more unhinged and negative every year? Some people are so strange. I would never leave such critical comments on someone's presentation.

A bunch of restaurants in Chicago have started playing AI covers of songs with the same monotonous 4/4 beat instead of real music and it drives me absolutely crazy 🙉

Returned from a week in Mexico City on Sunday visiting my husband's family and enjoying the city's parks and museums. We didn't have any issues with violence there, but I returned with 2 different illnesses: a bad cold + M's revenge, so this week has been rough 😷🤢

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

Just finished this series based on a Mexican juxebox musical. 💯 Highly recommend if you still have Prime and can handle subtitles (or if you speak Spanish) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentira...

Do you have any ancestors that appear in the English Protestation Returns of 1641-1642? I believe I do, on my Allpress line of Fenstanton. New post on the blog #FamilyHistory #genealogy emilyrandall.space/blog/2026/2/...

Georgia army veteran faces deportation after 50 years in U.S.: "Thank you for your service...should mean something"

Grace. Respect. Love.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Trying too hard with this international stuff" 🤣

I'm with the 34% of #Wordlers in this @techradar.com article who reckon the #NYT repeating #Wordle answers from next week will ruin the game. And I disagree with the author. IMHO, Wordle will become less deduction and more of a lucky guess word game! ☹️ #WQuers www.techradar.com/gaming/we-ha...

For Liam.

As Eli notes in the follow-up posts, last year Trump fired all the Biden appointees from the board of the US Holocaust Museum and replaced them with a bunch of Trump toadies. It's really gross that the org is throwing a fit like this. It's so obviously political.

No immigration enforcement action should lead to death. Rather than protect public safety, CBP and ICE are actively undermining it. CBP, ICE, and DHS must halt these chaotic raids targeting American cities.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

I'm sorry, his name was what?! 😲

The City of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration after the National Park Service removed a long-standing exhibit on slavery in the city's Independence National Historical Park. https://cnn.it/4jSDTZQ

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Haven't been sleeping well. Is it Trump etc or the extreme cold? It's both. I'm not getting enough steps in due to the cold (my sleep is better when I get my steps).

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”

I could really use some time in nature to help me get off my phone. But look at this forecast 😭🥶 (for my overseas followers 9F=-12.8C)

Whiskey Friday! I'm doing it. Currently sipping on a Jameson Black Barrel + Diet Coke.

Demonizing specifically white women who act in solidarity with racial minorities isn’t new. Here’s a southern political cartoon depicting Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1853. Surrounded by devils, she‘s holding a book titled “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Subtitle: “I Love the Blacks.”

it's the big day

I give Chicago property managers a grade of D for their (non)treatment of the sidewalks today after the 7AM graupel storm.

This is another movie that I saw at the Chicago International Film Festival and I thought it was fantastic (4.5 stars?) but there were 2 girls laughing and snickering behind me in the theatre, which was distracting, so I want to watch this again at some point.