I did something very freeing this week: gave several unread or started but not finished books to the charity shop.

Alex Churchill@alexchurchill.bsky.social · yesterday

Yup. Tis I.

Whatever about what came next, the ability to pause live TV is wondrous.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

We've added two roll books for Clonimiclon National School 1911-14 and 1921-24 tippstudiesdigital.ie/items/browse... and an indoor register for Cashel Workhouse covering the years 1860 -1872 www.tippstudiesdigital.ie/items/show/1... to our digital archive. tippstudiesdigital.ie

Delighted with this great review!

It's a public holiday here in Ireland but I've still got a fresh newsletter for you to read, claires-newsletter-3b3509.beehiiv.com/p/changes-at... #IrishGenealogy #Genealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour #FamilyHistory #Speirgorm

Changes at the NAI

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Like #WDYTYA, if this encourages people to research their family tree, I'm fine with it. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Hold the front page! Marilyn Monroe is Dakota Johnson’s ninth cousin three times removed

The vogue for celebrity ancestors can be traced back to Robert Pattinson descending from Dracula and Benedict Cumberbatch being related to just about everyone

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#DIBLives "Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look." Along with disappointment and disillusionment, rage and pain, Maeve Binchy's view of the world also included a reassuring belief in human goodness, resilience and recovery. She died #OTD 2012. www.dib.ie/biography/bi...

Name of the day: Neptune Blood, a chemist living in Dublin in 1926 from Co. Clare. nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

This Day in Labor History: July 25, 1973. The Irish Minister of Finance, Richie Ryan, introduced the Civil Service (Employment of Married Women) Act, which ended the nation’s long-standing ban on married women working for the government. Let's talk about this important moment!

If you like what we do, we'd be really grateful if you'd consider subscribing. It'd get you unlimited access to read all our articles you want, and it'd help us keep publishing more. We're a small place, so every subscription really makes a big difference. www.dublininquirer.com/membership/

Oh joy! A reply with info. Something to play with...when I should be working on other people's trees.

Claire Bradley@cbgenealogy.ie · 3w ago

Just sending another message to my highest unsolved match on @myheritageofficial.bsky.social - driving me crazy not knowing. In wrong country, no tree & no decent matches, but I can tell which set of my gg-grandparents they descend from. Suspect they are adopted.

Euro notes are getting a makeover - and you can vote for your favourite jrnl.ie/7111489 ooh lots to think about here.

Euro notes are getting a makeover - and you can vote for your favourite

Four out of the ten options are for vertical notes.

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A personal essay on what a DNA test revealed about a hidden family connection, and how it reshaped one family's story. time.com/article/2026... #DNA #DNATip #Genealogy #GeneticGenealogy #DavisDNA

'My Grandfather Charles Manson' and the DNA Test That Inspired One Woman’s Reckoning

At 22, Sophia Maddox learned that Charles Manson was her grandfather. So she made a documentary about reckoning with the shocking revelation.

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Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.

The latest edition of our newsletter, 'Life Lines' is now available. Read our new entries, our blogs on the 1926 census and how the Irish holidayed in the past, and our featured biography of Gillian Bowler. mailchi.mp/ria.ie/lifel...

Quick update: I was in the NAI today and they don't have any immediate solutions online but mentioned people coming in to use microfilms or original documents. Obviously, that is useless to people outside of Dublin!

Claire Bradley@cbgenealogy.ie · 3w ago

News today that the National Archives has taken their genealogy site offline indefinitely. Find where to get the collections elsewhere here: cbgenealogy.ie/nai-collecti... #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Ooof, so many broken links to fix on my website now the old census site is offline. I'll have to chip away at updating them.

News today that the National Archives has taken their genealogy site offline indefinitely. Find where to get the collections elsewhere here: cbgenealogy.ie/nai-collecti... #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

@ciaraioch.bsky.social are you open to small commissions?

The older NAI genealogy site has been offline for a couple of days. There's a banner across the main site but I wonder if this might mean bigger changes afoot. #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Just sending another message to my highest unsolved match on @myheritageofficial.bsky.social - driving me crazy not knowing. In wrong country, no tree & no decent matches, but I can tell which set of my gg-grandparents they descend from. Suspect they are adopted.

#DIBLives The first woman elected to the British parliament and the only female cabinet minister in the first Dáil Éireann, revolutionary, nationalist, labour activist, suffragist and politician Constance Markievicz died #OTD 1927. www.dib.ie/biography/ma...

How hot is it? Well, the coconut oil has never been liquid in my cupboard before.

Let the National Records of Scotland what you think of their frankly outrageous proposal to hike the price of accessing a single records on Scotland's People from £1.50 to £2.50. consult.gov.scot/national-rec... #genealogy

Well, feck, my #WDYTYA series link is obviously broken because of World Cup nonsense and I don't have this week's episode. And we still don't have the Iplayer in Ireland. #whine

Great opportunity for someone with a background in #genealogy and #heritage: Genealogist & Heritage Centre Manager, North Tipperary Genealogy & Heritage Centre, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. Closes Fri 24 July. Please share widely. #FamilyHistory #IrishFamilyHistory www.tipperarycoco.ie/human-resour...

If you're around Cork this Saturday at 1pm I'll be giving a free talk in St Peter's Cork, North Main Street on using Irish census records for genealogy #Cork #Census #Genealogy www.eventbrite.ie/e/finding-yo...

Finding your Ancestors in Census Records" with David Ryan

The first part of the tie in lecture series as part of the 1926 Census Exhbition run at St Peters

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Free for one more day! #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour #Genealogy #Speirgorm #IrishHistory #FamilyHistory

Claire Bradley@cbgenealogy.ie · last mo.

This morning's webinar on #1926census is now available to watch for free for the next week. Please share. familytreewebinars.com/webinar/irel... #IrishGenealogy #Speirgorm #IrishHistory #AncestryHour #GenHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory