I took Jan Joyce's Document Workshop and got a lot out of it—great prep before going on the clock. She’s holding another this September: learn, prepare, and practice the BCG Doc Work element. Includes 2025 requirements, examples, instruction, daily practice. genealogylogically.com/doc-work-wor...

In other news, I'm presenting my first (of two) talks today - this one is on the Irish Census. Check it out at 3pm Irish Time [10am EST] here: www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech... #Genealogy #RootsTech

Day 1 #RootsTech Excited for #Genealogy learning! Let’s remember to welcome our International friends, especially our near neighbors north and south of the border. Some feel unwelcome because of the current administrations threats. Let them know you care!

I captured the scene on the mountain. And guess what? Vance had a yardsale on Jester! 😀😀😀

I’m here in Vermont. I’m going to a protest tomorrow to tell Vance he’s a fucking tool. Please give me good signage content. Many folks who work at the mountain think they might be fired tomorrow if they don’t comply with directives. Send them some love. #SugarbushSkiandRide #lifties #fuckyouvance.

#FamilyHistory #Genealogy

“First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent.” —Bertrand Russell, on how fascism begins

We're excited to announce our Spring 2025 study groups! Registration opens this weekend. See below for details! #genealogy #MasteringProofStandards #methodology #documentation #analysis #GPS

This is a deliberate insult to historians. Trump’s furious at being excluded from an elite club he imagines exists. In reality, it’s just a research library. He looks like a petulant child craving attention. That’s just sad. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

Telling Our Stories: The Power of Documenting Family History findingdeeproots.com/telling-our-... #TellingOurStories #FamilyHistory #GenealogyMatters #AncestralPower #BlackHistoryMatters

"In addition to being the Secretary of State and the acting director of USAID, Marco Rubio is also the acting archivist of the United States, according to a high-level official." #genealogy #history #FamilyHistory

Yes!!! I’ve been waiting for this since 2023! Congratulations to Catherine, Michael, Kelvin, and everyone else!

Also Boston! Solidarity warms you up

Just finished a report for a client in an area I typically don’t research. It was fun learning new record groups and reading social #history & economic journal essays about this time, place, and people—which is my favorite part and how I got into genealogical work in the first place. #genealogy

What’s everyone working on today? #genealogy I’m wrapping up a client report from an area I don’t typically research, so that was fun! Getting to know new record groups is always interesting to me. What about you?

Hey, look. It's me! Everyone should check out the Society of Genealogists and all the amazing courses and classes they offer. #Genealogy

I love Bluesky! And the cleansing palette of my #genealogy feed. Thanks, genie friends! Here's a rainbow from last summer in Dangan Oughter, Co. Galway.

Is it me, or are other people noticing an increase in followers who are women in bikinis and men wearing sunglasses while sitting in their cars?

My eyes hurt just thinking about reading this but how exciting!

Genealogy on Xmas day.

Happy Holidays from me and my silly dog, Maggie, aka Stabby Maggie (she likes her sticks). ❄️☃️🎄

When you’re paying attention to your hydration while you work. 😄 💦

Living the dream.

If they treated this as a volume business they could have an income stream that would pay for workers. Make it make sense.

A #Genealogy #FamilyHistory Oh Dear! to start the week. A "researcher" disagrees with proven sources on the surname of my 5th GGM (his 6th). And in a retort to a discussion he adds "Based on records from Elis Island, surnames were changed all the time." #LostCause

Well, this is pretty cool. Wills and probate records for the win! The article includes a link to a recreation of a mixed Yorkshire medieval speech pattern that might sound similar to Richard III's.

Shared cM Project Tool now available in additional languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, and Slovak #genealogy #DNA dnapainter.com/blog/shared-...

Bonnie writes frequently and we all benefit from her research, from sorting out the “Darling” family web to a leg-by-leg description of a Maine Civil War Soldier’s march south. Here is her latest research on the Life and Death of a Rhode Island Textile Mill. Excited to read this one!

I’m appalled by the plans to burn the federal government to the ground. But I’m also infuriated by the callous rhetoric used to describe civil servants. The implication is that they’re do-nothings sponging off the public trust. The reality is they’re real people doing important work.

#Genealogy This is pretty cool from Grafitree! Cluster maps as family trees! grafitree.com/englishversi...

#GenHour I might be too late but: How often do you find CMSR #militaryrecords that show a volunteer signing up for service but then "name not taken up on muster rolls of the regiment." This person didn't die, and I can't see his service elsewhere. Why might this be? (and yes he collected a bounty).

#Genealogy friends, what are you working on today? For me on this dreary, rainy, Boston day it's 👇

Follow Bonnie! She’s working on finding early New England church records buried in the archives and bringing them back to life!

As a historian (MA in history), and now a professional genealogist, let me just say that this text from my son (who's a history major) tells me all I need to know about my role as his mother. My work here is done! 😄 ❤️

@alecferretti.bsky.social ?

#Genealogy NYS vital records experts! My client is applying for Irish dual citizenship. I need his grdparent's marriage license app to see his grandma's parents' names. Are marriage license apps extant? Will a certified marriage record include her parent's names? Is it a photostat or an extract? TY!

Me every time a new person is announced on that man’s team.

@melissaamour72.bsky.social for your blocking pleasure. :)

HALT! THIS IS A PET TAX POLL. PAYMENT IN PHOTO FORMAT IS MANDATORY. 👇

OK. It's literally one year to the day that I signed up for Cat Pics in my feed, and ... WHERE ARE THE CATS? I SEE NO CATS IN MY FEED.

Organizing a group of a thousand+ Cherokees and their families in the late 1700s into the 1800s and determining whether to transfer the spreadsheets to book, website (tables), or online family tree (hosted on my own site, not an Ancestry tree or WikiTree).

Writer's block is my mode this morning! 🙃 Please tell me your go-to strategy to get the juices flowing again. #Genealogy #amwriting #amNOTwriting

To my UK-based friends, can you pls suggest a good London neighborhood for a mom and 2 kids (3 & 6) to stay for a long weekend, near public transport and maybe interesting kiddie attractions? TY so much! 🎡😀

#Genealogy friends, what are you working on today or recently? Today I’m working on a client report whose ancestor was a Civil War veteran and part of the GAR. I visited his cemetery plot and was delighted to see this on the headstone. Let’s hear about your recent work!

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay

Hi #Genealogy friends! That's for the follow and I hope to follow all of you back! Nice to see all the new faces here!

I just want to point out that Colorado went above and beyond to pass laws protecting trans kids this year and the result was them holding the House supermajority and keeping the Senate majority while losing zero seats (flipping one, and losing the one that was the guy who changed parties)

Did anyone hear Liz Cheney speak last night at the #BostonSpeakersSeries?