Genealogy interest? My interview n Digging Deeper: Records, Tools, and Skills for June week of GRIP Genealogy Institute is free, National Genealogical Society YouTube channel. Jeanette Shilega does a fantastic job of asking questions about the course content! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBhv....

Was planning on watching RootsTech & Paralympics. Change isn’t easy, but am doing that instead. Good change. Moving. Same email & phone number. Now back to weeding out many books, sorting paper, filling my recycling bin, &donating clothing I no longer need. Family and friends help is a blessing.

Extra proud of the Minnesota connected athletes excelling in Italy. That doesn't take away from all the excelling fellow Minnesotans standing up and caring for other people, the truth, and the law.

The Obamas and Bidens are the presidential couples we can tell our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, and nephews to be like in public service to our country and as to how they treat everyone equally.

No riots in my part of Minnesota, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis & Saint Paul. My estimate is 99% well-behaved, strong minded, loud voices, meaningful signs, & a wide variety of like-minded people who care enough to be out in the continuing cold & snow. Definitely not paid to do that.

Genealogy research has a calming effect. Away from news but learning who & what came before you. It brings great friends with similar interests. A special woman from the Netherlands sent me a package of Stroopwafels as a hug for this Minnesotan. @yhoitink.bsky.social I had a huge smile on my face!

Join us Thursdays in March & April for in-depth sessions to increase knowledge & experience with libraries, historical societies, archives, genealogical societies, & receive an extensive syllabus with info on them and much more. Hidden resources in most! ighr.gagensociety.org/repositories/

Laundry? Clean bathroom? How to help reduce my anxiety of this week here in Minnesota? Work on a handout for an upcoming genealogy presentation and then some searching in Canadian records for those distant cousins. Ahhhhh.

Heartbreaking to read online posts from neighbors in Saint Paul and some surrounding areas. People in their own homes are frantic and scared about today's activities and rumors.

I think Bishop Henry Whipple is looking down upon the building named for him and isn't happy to see what I C E is doing.

Genealogy research & seeking out repositories that have old records is one way to keep me active. Full of cool things from the past. I am only 1 of the several instructors. The syllabus is extensive. Don't miss this 1 day a week course. Register ighr.gagensociety.org/repositories/

Thankful for those US & around the world peacefully protesting the horrors of thugs killing fellow human beings. Mothers, fathers, siblings, losing family. Talked with a Latino man & told him to please stay safe. Tears in his eyes as we kindly spoke. Is this really happening in my Minnesota.

This horrible day is over in just over 30 minutes here in Minnesota, but it will never be over. Lasting agony, a child without a mother, a state, city, and neighborhood scarred and scared, and the list could go on. Will Congress stand up to anything to help our country?

Any hope that Congress will finally act? Not holding my breath. They represent us, not orange guy and his handlers.

Grateful for medical scientists who research, test, & recommend vaccines to keep us healthier & avoid horrific diseases and viruses. Current on mine and thankful to survive many decades. I thank Mom who made sure I received my childhood vaccines & I did the same for my 3 children now adults.

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News more awful hour after hour & need a change of thought. Was going to do a couple errands but too cold to go. 2 Sunday ICE raids where I would have been. STOP them. Now working on my own genealogy for a relief from all this. I can do that; many can't because of guns used to kill & ICE garbage. 😓

Watching an old episode of Designing Women. Wow, it was about the Anita Hill testimony and the Clarence Thomas process of being appointed to the Supreme Court. Really hit a lot of lows for me. Look at where we are now with him and some others. I believed Anita then and still do.

Tomorrow Sat Nov 22 at noon ET regis start for IGHR 2026 genealogy courses. More details & links. genealogybypaula.com & ighr.gagensociety.org

I need almost 8 weeks off from the majority of my work and with pay, just like the House of Representatives.

Genealogical research for an upcoming presentation again yields a surprising find & deep dive into a rabbit hole. This keeps me mostly sane! Hear more Germanic Gen Soc Nov 13 Stillwater, MN ggsmn.org/eventListing...

Really? Supreme Court doesn't help babies, toddlers, children, teens, adults on SNAP. How about temporarily allowing payments & not temporarily being on the side of the administration until an appeals court reviews, Stay temporarily hungry until someone in the federal government cares. Sad.

Feeling more like there is HOPE ON THE HORIZON.

Checked what Nov 4 election day means for your home city, county, and state? Mayors, city councils, some Congressional races, and lots of school boards and school funding issues up for vote. Please vote and don’t forget the schools educating next generations. Teachers need that help, too.

Today's rallies show our country is full of caring and intelligent human beings. Some stood in the rain to show that. Others, as here in the Saint Paul and Minneapolis areas had beautiful fall weather. The crowds were beautiful and quite unlike the cowardly GOP was stating they would be. HOPE

They don't care about anyone beyond their "team" & that includes many in Congress. More disgusting people not stopping the horrifying actions. Give a damn about our U.S & care about people, families, health, jobs, housing, budgets, & our beautiful country. Stop T, V, J, M, and the others.

Minnesota genealogy research links? The Minnesota People Records Search from the Minnesota Historical Society is expanded. Now the online indexes include some World War I era records of those who served. genealogybypaula.com While on my website, scroll down for news of free Saint Paul newspapers.

Don't have a cable subscription so didn't watch Jon Stewart. Did watch Colbert's monologue. He said it all! I kept nodding at what he was saying, showing, and wow on the audience!

Took a break from the news of the day and working on handouts for presentations. What did I do instead? Updated my upcoming presentations list and was able to restore the list of my topics that had mysteriously disappeared. Take a look genealogybypaula.com

In the U.S. we need a new administration and a new Supreme Court or at least several replacements on the court. Then there's the Congress that needs a big change.

Prepping for webinars & institute courses. Updated speaking calendar & added blog posts in Aug. genealogybypaula.com. Webinar for the Austin Genealogical Society tonite about gems in old genealogical & historical periodicalsTexas & beyond. Intriguing examples! www.austingenealogicalsociety.org

I wonder if J. D. Vance is a parent who tells his young children to always tell the truth?

I checked and only 5 seats left! It's going to be a blast. We have an excellent lineup of instructors and I am lucky to be among them.

I cannot understand why we have come to losing 70 people in this Texas flooding who had no chance. No warning. This state government and the federal government do not truly care about people.

My heart is hurting today because of what used to be "our" Supreme Court.

Teaching an online genealogy course this week for the GRIP Genealogy Institute. Great students in my course. I have some wonderful other instructors, too. Makes me much happier than watching my Minnesota Twins lose for another two nights this week.

Gulf of Mexico and changing maps. "In the News, part 1: The Gulf of Mexico – A guest post by Stephanie Leitch." University of Minnesota Libraries News. libnews.umn.edu/2025/05/in-t...

Vance Boelter, yesterday's murderer, is in custody in Green Isle, Minnesota per two local TV stations.

Need a break from recent days? How about a week-long live genealogy experience from your own home. Learn from the best instructors. Last day to register for the June 22-27 online courses is Friday, June 13. That's tomorrow. Join the crowd already registered. grip.ngsgenealogy.org#1#schedule

We are living in a nightmare but it's really happening. STOP them all, T, M, J, N, etc. Where are the elected officials. Oh, yes, many are voting to destroy more. STOP this.

What a crock about Medicaid. My son has extreme health issues from stage 4 cancer treatment. Can no longer work. No employer to provide health insurance & never will. His supposed Medicare & Medicaid are messed up by the government. Suffers daily from the awful health & can't get his prescriptions.

Today marks 18 years of genealogy blogging. Not daily, but more than I ever expected I would do. Continuing? Of course! genealogybypaula.com

June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada. Many indigenous people have connections on both sides of the border. genealogybypaula.com

Little children are known for asking the same question over and over. Today, adults are asking that same question over and over. The question? WHY? I ask it every time anyone in the administration does the next uncaring, mean, illegal, and not necessary thing.

Genealogists love researching family history. Education helps. GRIP Genealogy Institute June 23-27 & BEYOND Digging Deeper: Sources, Methods, and Practices 18+ hrs virtual learning, 7 great instructors, interactivity, syllabus, & more at grip.ngsgenealogy.org/courses/beyo... & genealogybypaula.com

Graduating any university, maybe even West Point. Final ceremony, commencement speaker with sage advice and maybe some life lessons. Unless you were graduating from West Point today. THEN you hear the rambling speaker talk about yachts, trophy wives, his great achievements FOR the military . . .

Brutal, uncaring, deathly, sadistic, mean, and other ugly words describe what the orange guy and his cohorts are doing to these little children. Every day there's a new low in the treatment (or lack therof) of those who live in the U.S.

Really? The Librarian of Congress, too, But they are ok with Hegseth, Noem, Rubio, and others?

A genealogy change of pace. Planning something new for online presentations. Extended presentations on a single topic. Yes, I'll still do multiple topics, too. Learn more at genealogybypaula.com

The big bully in DC. To show his "power" to other dictators? No matter who he hurts along the way? What if one of his grandchildren has cancer & development of new drugs has stopped. Same for the GOP. Medical science & cancer treatments have given me more years with my oldest son. I am grateful.