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This is very impressive. The Plane Hunters Recovery Team have gathered 2000 pieces of the Lancaster bomber NN775 that crashed in 1945 and used them to reconstruct the plane in the War Museum in Overloon, NL. Find the people in the photo for scale. Pictures ©https://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl

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Dublin to Munich by ferry and train. A live thread 🧵. The journey begins by taking a Dublin bike to the Point. There is a bus that goes to the terminal but I decide to walk along the new Dublin Port Greenway as I have extra time. Walk takes about an hour but it's beautiful.

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Update from @usnatarchives.bsky.social on the message posted about the College Park branch on their web site. The branch is NOT closing to researchers! #genealogy #archives #historians

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Newest obsession: finding everything I can about my Canadian-born third great-grandmother, Francis Olmstead, and as quickly as possible.

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Do you have ancestors from Scotland? Visit your ancestral homeland with new or reinstated direct flights from North America to Scotland:* Fly from Montréal to Edinburgh via Air Canada. Launches June 26, goes to early September. www.aircanada.com/en-ca/flight...

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Newest obsession: finding everything I can about my Canadian-born third great-grandmother, Francis Olmstead, and as quickly as possible.

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Do you have ancestors from Scotland? Visit your ancestral homeland with new or reinstated direct flights from North America to Scotland:* Fly from Montréal to Edinburgh via Air Canada. Launches June 26, goes to early September. www.aircanada.com/en-ca/flight...

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URGENT: Unless citizens stop it, Congress aims to liquidate massive swaths of the American West and Northwest at great speed and with no hearings or public review. www.frommers.com/tips/miscell...

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Just rediscovered this super image of Scarborough complete with the gas works chimney squashed in between Castle Hill and Sandside to the right of the image? Scarborough was a working port and harbour and needed to use the most up-to-date technology of the time, despite the limitations of the site.

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America 250 was hIjacked and has turned into a joke of an organization. I would boycott any events connected to the org and, instead, find your own ways to commemorate Revolution events and celebrate Independence Day. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Today is my birthday and the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, part of the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. I'm currently researching four ancestors who participated in this battle, three as soldiers and one a teenage girl that carried water and helped nurse the injured.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Looking through the Traits feature at Ancestry DNA and the breakdown by parent, and it all just seems like a bunch of BS to me.

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My grandmother was a young pregnant Jewish woman alone on a train in Poland during WWII when a German soldier told her to get off at the next stop because there wouldn't be any soldiers waiting at the station. She survived because, in that moment, a soldier chose the right thing over obeying orders.

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

Transcribing this 77-page Revolutionary War pension file has broken my brain. 😩

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I can't handle the cuteness.

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Because of course it is.

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I’m not letting today pass without sharing a victory. For the past several years, the Pioneers Museum in Colorado Springs has been working with the three Ute tribes (Southern Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, & Ute of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation) to create a permanent Ute exhibit. It opened today. 1/

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UPDATE: The proposed state bill we're supporting to put millions of scanned-and-indexed older New York vital records online PASSED the NYS Senate today, 50-9! Now it needs to go through the Assembly... You can subscribe to the bill's progress here: www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...

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Cloudflare is going through some things right now (a lot of sites that use it are down or having problems), which might explain why the Library of Congress website has been giving me "we're having server issues" since last night. downdetector.com/status/cloud...

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12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt. In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. 'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)

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At this point, I think I'm using my research of my American Revolution ancestors as a hope crutch, of sorts, to get through all of...waves hands wildly...this.

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📚 The African Burying Ground Memorial Park was unveiled in 2015, 12 years after city workers uncovered a group of wooden coffins buried under the pavement at the corner of Chestnut and Court streets. 📚 Learn more about the Black Heritage Trail of NH at blackheritagetrailnh.org

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Looking for reference resources to better understand your #Connecticut #genealogy? libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/home

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Here’s a cute cemetery baby to brighten everyone’s day

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I would like a fully-iced chocolate cake-making gun, please. In my mind, this is absolutely a scene from a cartoon.

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On that note, it's the "official" end of #genchat for tonight, but keep on chatting! Next time (June 13), we'll be discussing Effectively Using Finding Aids. See you then!

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Was looking at some military record collections on Ancestry when I noticed document after document listed multiple ancestors as self-employed, but do not include the industry. Random Q: did people do this in the early 20th century to avoid saying they were unemployed?

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William Gould (seated) liberated himself from slavery in North Carolina during the Civil War & fought to preserve the nation & end slavery as a member of the United States armed forces. All six of his sons served their country in the US military in the 20th century.

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Remember when Colbert roasted W at the 2006 correspondents‘ dinner, quipping that “reality has a well-known liberal bias”? Twenty years later (almost), and the NPS is now required to crowdsource “information” based on personal feelings because the historical facts are deemed too unpleasant. Cool. 🗃️

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

Thank you.

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