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She/her/hers. PNW USA. Professional genealogist. Booklover.📚 Crocheter.🧶 Alaska born/raised. #HoH🦻🏻 #DeafCommunity 🤟🏻 #DeafKidsRock My genealogy blog: https://ancestories1.blogspot.com
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Shadow Surgeon General @vinguptamd.bsky.social giving you the advice you need

submitted 48 days ago • 209 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 49 days ago • 1574 comments

Who’s who in the Coeur d’Alene [Idaho] GOP town hall fracas that sparked free speech debate www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

On this last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, here's a blog post I wrote for Ancestry:

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 54 days ago • 844 comments

THIS! Since Trump took us out of WHO and is muzzling the CDC...

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

Call for Action Regarding Access to New York State Vital Records www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/blog/call-ac... #Genealogy #GenealogyNewsFlash

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

submitted 90 days ago • 117 comments

Accepting URL recommendations eotarchive.org

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

FYI: if your looking for current recalls or guidance on how to handle your food, this Gov website is still up and has been updated as late as 1/22/25. www.foodsafety.gov

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Hello out there scientists. If you're having meetings or grants or anything else impacted by freeze of NSF meetings, please feel free to reach out to me to share your story. Signal: thealexknapp.79 Email: [email protected]

submitted 86 days ago • 14 comments

Some great accounts to follow: @altnoaa.bsky.social @altwasonps.bsky.social @altyellonatpark.org @altspaceforce1.bsky.social @altfda.bsky.social @altmtrainier.com @altcdc.bsky.social @altuscustoms.bsky.social @altnatsecagency.bsky.social @altscalesofjustice.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social #resist

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Wherever you are in your genealogy journey--a hobbyist, a professional, or somewhere in between--what is your area of expertise? Your superpower? Your passion? In other words, what could you confidently teach a beginner? Think skills, records sets, specialties, knowledge. My response in comments.

submitted 87 days ago • 15 comments

Oh no

submitted 89 days ago • 1417 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 89 days ago • 1348 comments

The irony of Lunar Year 2025 being the Year of the Snake is not lost on me. Anyone else?

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Here we go …

submitted 90 days ago • 4995 comments

Just saying Napoleon came back and the whole world lined up to beat his ass and exiled him to an even smaller island I like history

submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments

Check your social media accounts. I found out I was being followed on the book of faces by the FOTUS & had follow requests on my locked-down instapot account by the hillbilly and the alabaster house. These are not transitioned by the former folks' accounts, which I still follow & which are archived.

submitted 92 days ago • 3 comments

If you enjoyed watching the Six Triple Eight on Netflix & want to learn more, The History Chicks @thehistorychicks.bsky.social feature it in their latest episode. Link has podcast, photos, interview of Charity Adams, & recommended adult and children's books. thehistorychicks.com/episode-238-...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing like discovering you've been doing a part of the Government's action plan for Mother and Baby Home survivors and have been doing more than what they would've set out to do... 🙃 Even then, they still won't release the children's names [which they have]. 😖 #ProjectInfant #MotherAndBabyHomes

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Thrilled to be taking part in this event. I'll be talking about Scottish church records #Ancestry #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #GenHour

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Public Health – #Seattle & #KingCounty was notified yesterday, January 15, of a confirmed #measles case in an adult who traveled through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) on January 10, 2025, while infectious. publichealthinsider.com/2025/01/16/p... - Public Health - Seattle & King County

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submitted 98 days ago • 25 comments

I don't identify myself in my profile as a Washington State Employee since I'm not engaging here in an official capacity. But today, I want to state how proud I am to have served my nearly ten years in state service under outgoing Gov. Jay Inslee. He left a proud legacy. medium.com/wagovernor/f...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment