The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History has launched “Histories and Mysteries,” a new project to resolve unanswered questions from the Holocaust. You can read all about it at cjh.org/histories-my...

Are you a historian of the Atlantic world with a manuscript of monograph or edited volume? Consider submitting to Race in the Atlantic World (UGA Press), edited by Araujo, Green & Newman, an award-winning series with a transnational/comparative focus. More here t.co/s3qp5NLQx7

Full setup guide for "vibe genealogy" — using AI conversationally to build tools you'd normally need a developer for. Includes the system prompt I use and step-by-step instructions: vibegenealogy.ai/p/fun-prompt...

#AI in #genealogy?!?? Oh yes, my #RootsTech talk shows how #FamilySearch LLMs and chatbots dig through business records, wills, and even colonial-era genealogies to uncover juicy, sometimes scandalous Latin American family history! ¡JUEPA JE! #Latino #Latinos #Colombia

Sat. March 7, 2026, at 5pm EST: Watch my online #RootsTech talk on searching for Latin American #Genealogy on FamilySearch.org! Sign up to watch for free: rootstech.org

I'm deeply appreciative for #FamilySearch Full-Text Search yet again helping me realize the "Genealogías de Santa Fe de Bogotá" has misleading mistakes, and it took me a day to realize it rather than weeks/months. Down with upper-crust Colombian lies! #genealogy

#comic #cartoon #DNA #science #lol

I wrote a new research guide yesterday and it's 100% FREE! This is a free sample to show you what my longer, paid genealogy research guides are like. Grab it at the link below. #genealogy www.theformidablegenealogist.com/product-page...

Good lord, the science has advanced: "it could be possible to find cells of epidermis mixed with the colors.” 🧬

We see your Humble Jumble Lane and raise you Crack-brain-court and New Martin Street a.k.a. Shall-I-go-naked-street! These are from Whitechapel, London, in the early 1700s. Does anyone have any more stupendous street names, from #OnePlaceStudies or elsewhere, to share on #OnePlaceWednesday?

See what comes to Staten Island residents, @jewyorican.bsky.social?

I've got to be some sort of mispoche of Mel Brooks, that's good enough for me!

Jari Honora has been named Louisianan of the Year by the Georges Media Group for his uncovering of Pope Leo XIV's Black Creole ancestry, fueling increased interest in the first American pope. It is but the latest honor for the 34-year-old genealogist. www.blackcatholicmes...

2025 Genetic Genealogy Retrospective. Prolific DNA blogger Roberta Estes looks back on the genetic genealogy highlights from 2025. buff.ly/b08DMol #DNA #DNATesting #Genealogy

Hey #genealogy pumpkins, if you've listened to my podcast, you know all about Joe McGill's Slave Dwelling Project. He's formed a discussion group on Skool. Please join if you want to know about Black History. The podcast ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... www.skool.com/sleeping-wit...

My god, we're up to Generation Beta. WHO'S OHIO NOW???

Save your family documents, folks. You never know how valuable they'll be a century or two from now. ariks.substack.com/p/i-just-spe...

Rest in Peace Eva Schloss, Auschwitz survivor, step sister of Anne Frank & co-founder & honorary president of the Anne Frank Trust who has died age 96. 👇 BBC News - Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss dies aged 96 as King leads tributes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"A colourful and fiercely partisan medieval genealogy created to support Edward IV’s claim to the English throne has now been digitised and made freely available online."

Because beauty helps, this is the Villa Farnesina in #Rome, full of bright early 16thC frescoes - incl Raphael's "Galatea" on the wall left - filled to the brim with heavenly creatures: gods, planets, constellations, cupids, and birds everywhere 🤩

I just finished the thread of @redisclatinidad.bsky.social's long Season 7! And our Season 8 starts on Feb. 26th! 👇🎧

For our Season 7 finale, we hear the heartwarming story about Briar's Abuela's recent 95th birthday party: www.spreaker.com/podcast/redi... And mark the date: Season 8 starts on February 26!

Ok, this is some Moo Deng-level prescience:

It's 101 years ago today, but this is one of my favorite #OTD threads from last year. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Welcome to the Public Domain, MOROCCO (1930) 🎩 🎥 Marlene Dietrich was bending the rules as she pleased. See her iconic suit & daring kiss in this pre-Code classic. 🌸💋 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

Ooh wow, this is something:

As 2026 approaches a happy new year's toast to you all with this marvellous 4th century Roman cage-cup, which bears an inscription, a toast that reads: BIBE MULTIS ANNIS - Drink for many years! Cheers and here's to a far better year in 2026! 🥂 #NewYear2026 🍀

Every family has a history. Here’s how to make sure it’s handed down. wapo.st/4qvRW9J #genealogy

Formidable Women Who Made Daring Escapes historymedieval.com/formidable-m...

From my podcast archive youtu.be/0y3NFuhgyOY

Leonardo da Vinci wrote in his notebooks a recipe for plastic and bioarchitecture: arstechnica.com/science/2025...

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, genealogists will have more stories for you about the part their families played in the events that unfolded. See if you can find mine! projectkin.org/stories250

Feliz Navidad! I dare you to listen to @redisclatinidad.bsky.social's Season 5 episode on Latin American Christmas traditions and not get hungry: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...

Happy Boxing Day! 🎁 These thicc boys are basically bare-knuckling it, visibly bloodying one another, while even chonkier gents wrestle above them on the neck of this 6th c. BCE black-figure amphora. Ancient Greek athletics, folks. 🏺 1/ 📸 me #BritishMuseum #BoxingDay

I asked #FamilySearch for some Christmas #genealogy records, and Full-Text Search gave me surprise #Flemish ancestors! Latino mestizaje, the gift that keeps on giving: geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... #Antwerp

#FrescoFriday shows us a tender maternal scene of the care of the Holy Child. Yes, it's the infant #Dionysus in the care of the nymphs of Mt Nysa, into whose care #Zeus consigned the baby, from Cubiculum B of the #domus of the #Farnesina, 30-20 BCE, in #palazzoMassimo. #AncientBluesky 🏺

If you liked the Wilton Diptych that I posted, you should view this fantastic video about this remarkable set of panel paintings. #arthistory

I loved recording this episode so much. ¡Puerto Rico está bien cabrón! 🇵🇷 🇵🇷 🇵🇷 🇵🇷

😇 If anyone wants to give me a #genealogy Christmas present, is the 1609 baptismal record I marked for a Hermanus Cornelis? Secretary hand is hard enough with Spanish or English, I'm completely out of my element with #Dutch. Bedankt!

#ReliefWednesday gives us this lovely flat disc cut from a larger scene, with a #cameo in white and blue #glass, which in antiquity replaced the original pointed base of the #PortlandVase in the #BritishMuseum. It may show the #Trojan shepherd prince #Paris. 15 BCE - 25 CE. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Genealogists read about death. A lot. But this one borders on paranormal. I followed a line down to disprove a couple as parents to a research target, and one of their daughters was killed by lightning inside a church during a funeral. It was clearly her time. #genealogy #ancestry #familyresearch

Christmas on Ellis Island. 🗽🎄

Don't miss our True Crime episode, where @artistsreward.bsky.social & Briar discuss Cassie Ventura and the other abuse survivors who brought Diddy to justice: www.spreaker.com/episode/redi...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

The secret lives of 17th century #owls (British Museum) Reading by candle light in 1625, and out on a skate date in 1644.

For 5+ years, I've been wearing what the tech industry is now calling AI glasses, so it was only a matter of time before I cover them from a healthcare angle! Here's my deep dive! 🧪 #smartglasses #AI #digitalhealth #medicine #accessibility #tech #future medicalfuturist.com/smart-glasse...

Empanadas are fried in oil and are therefore a Chanukah food. I don’t make the rules

The newly opened Colosseo-Fori Inperiali subway station houses a full museum's worth of finds discovered while digging under the city. Including this 4th c. CE gold glass fragment depicting the goddess Roma, which had been affixed to a wall in the ruins of an ancient military barracks. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

For #ReliefWednesday we're looking at perhaps the most celebrated piece of ancient #Roman #cameo #glass, the #PortlandVase in the #BritishMuseum. Made in #Rome between 15 BCE and 25 CE, it shows two scenes, whose meaning is still obscure, but whose beauty is undisputed. #AncientBluesky 🏺

In 2025, AI forever changed my #genealogy research with #FamilySearch Full-Text Search. But this year also brought many surprise human touches, like seeing a photo of my Grandpa as a boy and meeting a group of 5th cousins with common Yiddishe roots! geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com/2025/12/unex...