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mrisseeuw.bsky.social
Artist, genealogist, lecturer, writer: doing as much as I can as long as I can.
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Cheap retail therapy: found a dress (could be used as a lightweight coat) for $4.99 (thrift store splurge). Checked it online & it currently sells for $310. I'm good with that.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This weekend of free access to newspapers . com has me frantically searching for more info on 100s of Dutch refugees who immigrated in the 1950s. Lecture & book chapter will be well sourced! #genealogy

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I'm aways pleasantly surprised when documents from the late 1700s are legible. Not finding clues to the who/why of 4th GG's murder however. Unfortunately the only records in Bocholt Germany that might help can only be searched in person...sigh #genealogy

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know who murdered my 4th great grandmother - or why. But I just received a nicely researched story about the event based on the court reports. Oh, the fascinating stories of our ancestors we were never told 😀 #genealogy

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

If any of you are in the Phoenix area a fabulous new exhibition opened at the Phoenix Botanical Gardens: Toward 2050. You can walk the labyrinth of almost 5,000 pieces that address climate change. (My pieces are in the inner circle!!)

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I highly recommend this. It is compelling & disturbing & an education we all need. @tialevingswriter.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The e-mail I just got from the "United Nations Compensation Committee" seems on trend, don't you think? ....

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Today my words of encouragement came from the Congo. If you think the new policies don't affect the rest of the world - they do. If you think they aren't paying attention - they are.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Cool. Ice storm/snow/slush predicted for Wed. Good excuse to hunker down & try to ignore what's going on outside my doors,

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Hooo baby! I just discovered the National Archives of India! That's a rabbit hole I wasn't anticipating. (I'm researching Americans who were nurses, drs, teachers, etc there) #genealogy

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There is a need for basics: Be a Helper. That's it, just be a helper.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I WILL go through a couple hundred more scans of source material to write my fellowship lecture. I WILL.. #genealogy #writers

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@maryrisseeuw.bsky.social Well.... damn. I just found a record that my 4th great grandmother was found stabbed to death in 1799. #genealogy

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

They've become far more unhinged than I thought possible in the last 24 hrs.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Jan 20, 1961. A blizzard the day before. Temperatures well below freezing. Without a coat or hat, JFK gave a speech we still quote today. Robert Frost, 86, recited a poem. Steinbeck and Hemingway and Rothko were among the VIPs. A million people gathered in the cold to hear it. This is the precedent.

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