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pattyhankins.bsky.social
Genealogist and photographer in Montgomery County, Maryland. Servant to 4 cats. Always looking for the next good book to read.
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Ivory Flame From a remote tank photo session with Ivory Flame and Haloe Haynes at TankSpace. Imagine photographing models in a 10,000 gallon aquarium on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean! #Photography #ModelPhotography #Underwater #ArtModel

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Kitties Jackson and Gus would like to wish everyone a Happy #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

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Blog post with page 2 from my early 1900s family photo album. I love the behind the scenes look of life in the Call family home. My grandmother and her brother are pictured in the photo of kids on the front step. pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/02/ealy... #Genealogy #Photography

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Pink & White Orchids #Photography #Flowers #Orchids

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It is hard to picture the National Parks without Ansel Adams. Born February 20, 1902, a family trip to Yosemite National Park would inspire Adams to pursue photography. Cont.

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Under a pier in the Outer Banks #Photography #OuterBanks

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Got a wonderful surprise in the NYG&B email this morning - among their recently digitized collections is the 1845 Agricultural Census of the town of Callicoon in Sullivan County, New York. And there on image 13 of 27 is my 3X great grandfather John Hankins!!!!! #genealogy #newyork

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I've started a series of blog posts with photos from an early 1900s family photo album. Page one is at pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/02/earl... Photos on the page from about include #Genealogy #Photography #CatsOfBluesky

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Before and after editing of a 1904-1905 photograph of my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call and I think her older sister Edith Alberta. Thanks to Topaz Photo AI and Photoshop neural filters, I was able to bring back details in the faces. #Photography #Genealogy #Photoshop #TopazPhotoAI

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Vivian Cove @viviancove.bsky.social #Photography #ModelPhotography

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Visiting the Cambridge, MA in the early 1920s? Where did you get your photo taken? Beside one of the revolutionary war cannons of course. Or at least my grandmother did. #Photography #FamilyHistory

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Ooopsie.

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Fangmei Sweet Orchids #Photography #Flowers #Orchids

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My grandmother - Evelyn Clara Call c 1905 Digitized from modern prints of old photos. Still hoping to find the original photos. #genealogy #photography

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#genealogy #newspapers

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Understand this: Elon Musk’s wealth is tied directly to contracts and regulations from the government agencies he now controls. He spent over $280 million to elect Trump and now he's cashing in — AND they got rid of the inspectors general who could hold him accountable. Gross corruption.

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Books and Roses #StillLife #photography #Booksky

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My grandmother and her siblings (and a niece) - early 1920s Marie Charlotte Call (behind Irving), Irving Joslyn Call, Robert Vincent Call, Edith Alberta (Call) Jones, Charles Arthur Call, Evelyn Clara (Call) Hankins #genealogy #photography

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Reconstructing Ancestral Neighborhoods and Networks with Kimberly Powell and Gerald Smith starts today! Really looking forward to this course! #slig2025 #genealogy

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Fantastic.

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#genealogy #newyork

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Great post from Sherrilyn Ifill - on what is happening and what we can do @sifill.bsky.social sherrilyn.substack.com/p/democracy-...

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Anoush Anou @anoushanou.bsky.social #Photography #ModelPhotography #Viewmaster

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This week's #52Ancestors prompt was Surprise. I was definitely surprised to find this gem in a pension file. connectingskeletons.blogspot.com/2025/02/surp...

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YUP. Puppy bowl is great. Elon is not.

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Alrighty, #genealogy and #familyhistory folks with any ties to the state of New York. Let's get LOUD!

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Worth a read. Great explanation of what the US archivist does, and why the firing of the archivist without notice (as required by law) matters. #genealogy

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Wild Geranium - Geranium maculatum #flowers #wildflowers #nativeplants #photography

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Info from the National Parks Conservation Association www.npca.org/articles/668... #NationalParks

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Sunrise on the Outer Banks #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Sunrise #OuterBanks

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Protest. Resist. Know your rights.

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US District Court Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland imposes a nationwide halt to President Trump's plan to remove birthright citizenship.

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BREAKING: Rep. Mark Pocan has introduced the ELON MUSK act which would ban "special" government employees like Musk from having federal contracts. The full title of the bill is the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act.

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This must be read. By every person who cares about the hijacking of this nation. By every Democrat in Congress. @democrats-judiciary.house.gov Thank you @jamellebouie.net. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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My grandmother, Evelyn Clara Call. Photo likely taken in 1918-1919. Another photo of her wearing the same dress, same hairstyle, and a slightly different pose was included in the 1919 Cornell yearbook when she graduated with a degree in home economics. #Photography #Genealogy #Cornell

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From the good people at @indivisible.org about protecting oneselves at protests… for no particular reason: indivisible.org/resource/saf... #DOGE #Project2025

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Musk and his team of dodgy 18-year-olds went into sensitive government networks, hooked up their own storage systems, and downloaded the personal information of every American. 1/

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