One of Robert Montgomery’s light poems: www.robertmontgomery.org/2grya25po4v0...

Literally uncovering the grave of the central figure in my forthcoming book yesterday. Her sister’s grave is even more hidden. But I knew where to look because of the work of archivists and Findagrave.com…

Another good day to read Langston Hughes (Excerpt from "Let America Be America Again")

New Yorkers, if you are looking for something to do (indoors) for the 4th, the main branch of NYPL has a copy of the Declaration of Independence penned by Jefferson, a room where you can write a copy of it in your own handwriting, and a great button making activity.

Tucked away in West Yorkshire is a hidden piece of transatlantic history perfect for the Fourth of July. The Triumphal Arch on the Parlington Estate in Aberford is Britain's only monument dedicated to American independence. Built in 1783 by the eccentric, whig-sympathising

July is Cape Verdean Heritage Month! These photos of Cape Verdean laborers working in the Agawam cranberry bogs document some of the earliest Cape Verdean immigrants to Massachusetts. 🧵 @universalhub.com

Know someone who's been meaning to start their family history journey? This is their sign. 👇 Our Beginning Genealogy Class is back in July! MGS Library Manager Jeanne Bielke-Rodenbiker will walk you through the tips and tools to get started — plus a library tour and a helpful handout to take home.

The thing about #EastCoastCemeteries is that history is EVERYWHERE, especially in the original 13 colonies. The grave of this Revolutionary Brigadier General isn’t in a big historic cemetery or military memorial. It’s in a tiny roadside churchyard.

Yesterday I posted that the evidence matrix would be available next week... Apparently I underestimated my own enthusiasm 😂 The article is now live, along with a FREE evidence matrix to help you organise your research, compare evidence, and keep your research moving. #familyhistory #genealogy

I will have some thoughts on this especially fraught anniversary in the upcoming weekend post. But at the same time, I refuse to let that nonsense overshadow the complex & crucial histories we're commemorating, so throughout the week I’ll first AmericanStudy a handful of 1776 events & contexts! 🗃️

So for the final post in my AmericanStudying the 250th blog series, five telling events that all took place in the Big Apple in the summer of 1776--from multiple battles & an iconic & inspiring execution to the world's first use of a submarine in combat! blackwhiteandread.com/july-3-2026-...

Wonderful!

This is really cool.

Article on #Sandbach by Cheshire Life magazine www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/ch... #Cheshire

LOL Boston airport is now selling ranch dressing after security for departing European passengers!

"by the time the minutemen and redcoats clashed on Lexington Common in 1775, the British had already lost control of most of the colony" www.nepm.org/regional-new...

The immigrants’ story is the American story. #genealogy #ansestry #familyhistory

The Durham boat is known as being the model of boat George Washington used to cross the Delaware with his Patriot troops on Christmas in 1776. The team at the Independence Seaport Museum built an exact replica: www.inquirer.com/arts/george-...

He's right. We can talk about the Colfax Massacre of 1872. The biggest lynching came in 1891 in Louisiana when a mass mob murdered 11 Italians. In 1898, a white supremacist coup in Wilmington overturned the fusionist biracial government. There's also the 1921 Tulsa race massacre/pogrom.

This morning's webinar on #1926census is now available to watch for free for the next week. Please share. familytreewebinars.com/webinar/irel... #IrishGenealogy #Speirgorm #IrishHistory #AncestryHour #GenHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Quoting @jmendelsohn.bsky.social who posted this gem from #Ancestry over on Threads - Thanks Jennifer! P.S. miss you here ☺️ In advance of this weekend, an incredible Ancestry ad from 2017: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1PM...

Black soldiers sought freedom through various means during the American Revolution. Hundreds, many of whom were self-liberated, joined the Hessian armies. About 70 of these Black American soldiers settled in Germany after the war, transforming themselves “from slaves to subjects.”

This is a great story made possible through genealogical and historical records research and the heart of a community in North Carolina.

Happy Canada Day to all our northern friends! 🇨🇦

Excited to make my @defector.com debut with this piece! Read about my long, ridiculous trip through the world of 250th anniversary STUFF. Read it, then check out some of my favorites in the thread below. Also, you can all stop sending me photos of this crap now.

If you are one of the people who said, "But I'm still in the middle of the book!," there's another chance on July 11th to join a #zoombookgroup and discuss Gloria Whiting's Belonging. Registration link below! #skystorians #newengland #booksky www.eventbrite.com/e/book-club-...

Remembering the Somme at Dantzig Alley Cemetery this morning #Somme110

🧵One hundred and ten years ago today on 1 July 1916, Yorkshire bore a devastating share of the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, making up nearly twenty percent of the British force. Spurred by Kitchener’s 1914 call to arms, communities had formed close-knit "Pals" battalions from places like

To source record copies from people and institutions all around the world to piece together the collection again is incredible. Amazing work.

Harrison Ford is an award-winning actor whose iconic career spans more than six decades. Ford looks back at the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal program that put thousands of unemployed men to work improving America’s parks and natural lands. #WeAreAmerica250

In 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt famously resigned from DAR when it barred singer Marian Anderson, an African American woman, from performing at its Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. www.archives.gov/exhibits/ame...

This makes my little Rev War descendant heart so happy. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️ www.them.us/story/daught...

Stopped by one of our favorite old barns in the Mission Mountains last week…🏔️ #photography

This is wonderful. Finding a mystery daguerreotype with deep historical meaning.

BRB, going to find a rooster to adopt.

I absolutely love this one.

Really want to start a crowdfunding campaign for this account's project, which had a good chunk of funding (my savings) at two other times since its inception (but were wiped out thanks to life), but I feel like everyone will laugh because *another f-ing crowdfund?* and also, *in this economy?*.

Fascinating stories here fr CNN. The persistence of lineage in so many dimensions. What do we think genealogy means, why do we track it, why does it track us? I wrote abt the structural roots of this phenom at the heart of the founding — so interesting to see it play out. H/t @clancyny.bsky.social!

Kentucky Celebrates America 250 on July 4th with free activities for all ages, including historic games, scavenger hunts, dancing lessons, kids' activities, living history demonstrations and more. https://history.ky.gov/events/kentucky-celebrates-america250

TODAY: the first day of our exhibition, ‘REVOLUTION 250’. It tells the story of the American Revolution through the British archive. We also look beyond the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration to encompass further stories, including Indigenous nations and Black Loyalists.

The new edition of Frommer's award-winning guidebook to London, which I have researched and written for @frommers.com for 20 years, hits bookstores Sept. 15. This travel guide book is 100% AI-free, as always! Pre-order it now (paperback and ebook)! amzn.to/4ewi95b

Hi #GenHour! It's been an exciting week as my free genealogy web app, TreeLab (treelab.jernealogy.com), continues to grow. I've just added interactive descendant charts and maps, and they've quickly become some of my favorite features. I'd love to hear what you think if you give them a try!

Had the great fortune to spend the weekend w my dear friend Nell "Mickey" Bright celebrating her 105th birthday. Mickey was a WASP during WWII and we have been friends for 30 years now. She not only flew B-25s during the war, but after the war became the first woman stockbroker in AZ.

This reminds me of my first "archives shock" when I was an undergraduate. (Note that in telling this story I'm going to use historical anti Japanese slurs). I went to high school in Phoenix, AZ. At some point in college I was made aware of the prison camp full of German UBoat sailors (1) 🗃️

Yes, please.

You cannot deny/diminish the importance of oral & personal histories as primary sources when the system actively worked to deliberately erase/omit Black people from the records. A #Juneteenth reminder for #genealogy folks.

ICYMI: Here’s our Season 11 ‘box set’ familyhistoriespodcast.com/series-eleven/ #genealogy #ancestry #AncestryHour #FamilyHistory

For #Juneteenth: 70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. These moving narratives & photos are now held here at the Library. Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

Watching a little soccer. Doing a little genealogy. I'd say it's a good day.