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🔊 Audio engineer, 🧬 🌳 genealogist, 👨🏻‍🏫 educator, 📚 archive enthusiast. 🎤 DIY punk roots. 🌱 Vegan. 🇲🇽 Mexican heritage.
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Update: BIRLS.org has now sent 12,400+ #FOIA requests in just the ~63 days since launch. That's ~20% of what the VBA (the relevant sub-agency within the VA) usually gets in a single *year*! And yet the letters *are* going out, and some people are starting to get their C-Files too. Kudos to the VA!

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Hey, #genealogy #familyhistory and #ushistory friends! If you're looking for something from a government site that is suddenly inaccessible, search @eotarchive.org 2024 collection. You can use keywords, not just URLs, and the usual quote marks for exact phrases. web.archive.org/collection-s...

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

You can also catch me digging around in Archive.org, HathiTrust and Worldcat. Also a big believer in #archiveteam and other citizen efforts to preserve our digital present before it goes poof.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Hey everybody! 👋🏽 Some of you might recognize me from genealogy Facebook groups. I'm excited to join this community and connect with fellow researchers. I'm particularly passionate about Mexican genealogy and genetic genealogy. If these topics interest you, give me a follow.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments