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Footage of the #Bessborough Commemoration is being uploaded as I post - they'll be uploaded to the Bessborough YouTube channel accessible here: www.youtube.com/@Bessborough... - subscribe to know when the videos go live. [but will tweet announcing when they've been uploaded] #MotherAndBabyHomes

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Will do more tweeting about the #Bessborough commemoration but feel this in itself deserves a separate post. Got to speak to the Taoiseach about my #MotherAndBabyHomes research. A surreal moment nonetheless but I’m glad I got to convey the importance (and necessity) of investigating Bessborough.

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Will do more tweeting about the #Bessborough commemoration but feel this in itself deserves a separate post. Got to speak to the Taoiseach about my #MotherAndBabyHomes research. A surreal moment nonetheless but I’m glad I got to convey the importance (and necessity) of investigating Bessborough.

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In memory of the 923 children & 32 mothers who died between 1922 and 1994 in / connected with Bessborough House. See next post for ALT-text. [Note: We only have 890 children & 25 mothers, but we're working hard at @projectinfant.ie to try and find the remaining names.] #MotherAndBabyHomes [1/2] ❤️

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Genearosity #PayItForward I'm at my FamilySearch Center if any genies need lookups from the restricted record sets. #SpreadTheWord @alliethinks.bsky.social @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie @shamrockgen.bsky.social @allthosebefore.bsky.social

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I’m telling you, the more I look at some member trees on Ancestry — trying to decipher and interpret them, the more I feel myself go slightly more bonkers. 🫠🥲

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#Genealogy never fails to give me surprises. Found that one of my 3x great grand uncles who was a doctor was charged with medical malpractice not once, but twice AND in two different countries (Ireland & UK) Oh, Edmond… 🫣

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#BessboroCommemoration this Sunday at 2pm in #Blackrock #Cork #MotherAndBabyHomes #UnmarkedGraves #859Missing www.corkindependent.com/2025/06/26/b...

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OK, I know this is not his main point, but for the 10 billionth time NOBODY’S NAME WAS CHANGED AT ELLIS ISLAND. That’s the most persistent urban legend in American genealogy. Which is my profession. (American genealogy, not urban legends)

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The fact I'm still being asked "How do you get information from being in a mother and baby home?" or "How do I go about getting redress?" makes me frustrated. Not at them, but at the very campaigns that were supposed to do this. For help on getting your birth information, see: projectinfant.ie/faq

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While there is a large focus on Tuam at the moment, we can't let #Bessborough or any other #MotherAndBabyHomes with hundreds of missing burials slip by either. We need investigations. Into Bessborough, Sean Ross Abbey, and more, then we do memorialisation. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

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The theme to this year’s #Bessboro Commemoration is #UnsungHeroes. We lost some wonderful advocates in the last 6 months. People that paved the way for equality for adopted people & others who risked all to help girls escape the institution. 29th June @ 2pm

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The fact I'm still being asked "How do you get information from being in a mother and baby home?" or "How do I go about getting redress?" makes me frustrated. Not at them, but at the very campaigns that were supposed to do this. For help on getting your birth information, see: projectinfant.ie/faq

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While there is a large focus on Tuam at the moment, we can't let #Bessborough or any other #MotherAndBabyHomes with hundreds of missing burials slip by either. We need investigations. Into Bessborough, Sean Ross Abbey, and more, then we do memorialisation. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

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This coming Sunday — June 29th — 2pm — Bessbro gathering — we will be especially remembering our brilliant colleague Mari Steed.

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Social media never fails to shock me at how easy it is for misinformation to be driven. Spent a good bit of time over the past few days trying to answer people's questions re. Tuam & not be misled by the clickbaity 'BREAKING NEWS' posts from weird looking TikTok & FB pages. It's exhausting. 😕

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Hello, I have a Jewish #genealogy question! If you're a Jewish genealogist who has applied for the CG credential through BCG, have you published your Kinship Determination Project anywhere? I'd love to read specifically-Jewish examples, to see how certain things are handled. 1/

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New at Archive.org: almost 40,000 high school yearbooks downloaded from Classmates dot com and uploaded for open access, no log-in required. Appears to be an ongoing effort. 📚🗃️📜 #genealogy archive.org/details/@yea...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

🧵1/4 On Sunday 29th June I will attend the annual #Bessboro Commemoration. In 2017 I discovered I was born there, I was handed over to my adoptive parents at 7 weeks old. Despite having a loving father my childhood was marred by a detached & controlling mother

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Social media never fails to shock me at how easy it is for misinformation to be driven. Spent a good bit of time over the past few days trying to answer people's questions re. Tuam & not be misled by the clickbaity 'BREAKING NEWS' posts from weird looking TikTok & FB pages. It's exhausting. 😕

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#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Genearosity I'm at my FamilySearch Center today, if any genies need copies of restricted records. #SpreadTheWord @alliethinks.bsky.social @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie @sjcaracciacpa.bsky.social

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Going through old school notes, found this assignment from my TY year in secondary school. 😅 #Genealogy

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Sunday, June 29th at 2pm is Bessborough’s annual commemoration. If you’re in Cork / want to visit, see the poster below for details. All welcome, regardless of a Bessborough connection or not. Speakers are Dr. @cmcgettrick.bsky.social & Prof. @ka-od.bsky.social. #MotherAndBabyHomes

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Sunday, June 29th at 2pm is Bessborough’s annual commemoration. If you’re in Cork / want to visit, see the poster below for details. All welcome, regardless of a Bessborough connection or not. Speakers are Dr. @cmcgettrick.bsky.social & Prof. @ka-od.bsky.social. #MotherAndBabyHomes

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My little visitor.

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Gardening in the sunshine, taming the jungle one bed at a time.

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This little guy was spotted hopping through the grass, not sure where he was going or coming from. Not many ponds or streams nearby

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After meeting the artist behind this, I can only say this is well deserved… 👏❤️ avondhupress.ie/fermoy-artis... #MotherAndBabyHomes

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11 years it took to get to this point. May the remains of those buried here be reinterred somewhere more respectful. 24 months this is envisioned to take, and that starts now. #MotherAndBabyHomes

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

By coincidence I was passing Tuam today as the hoarding went up around the Mother & Baby Home site. A discreet and respectful veil. It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi. 🧵

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11 years it took to get to this point. May the remains of those buried here be reinterred somewhere more respectful. 24 months this is envisioned to take, and that starts now. #MotherAndBabyHomes

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New post 'Boulevard of Bonkers Ideas' can be read here: WordPress [I mirror my Substack posts here]: danielmloftus.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/b... Substack: danielloftus.substack.com/p/boulevard-... #MotherAndBabyHomes #Genealogy #DNA

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I've no idea if anything can even be done about it now, but I need someone to amend the Institutional Burials Act (2022), there is one glaring oversight and it's already affecting the impact of the Tuam exhumation before it has even begun. Her name is Annie Roughneen... [1/8] 🧵

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