My favorite #genealogy tip--always search by address--came through for me again today. After finding my great-great-aunt Fanika's address in the 1910 census, I used it to find this newspaper article, about a thwarted burglary. She would have been one of the servants inside. NY Herald, Dec 21 1911./1

One of the ways I'm processing the experience of losing my spouse unexpectedly is writing down things that helped. Here are three things you can do if someone you know is having the worst time of their life: www.signalstation.com/so-someone-y...

I have been making my dumb life from drawing my little guys and stuff for more than 15 years now and I would like to continue to and you can help... Original screen prints, paintings, etc: octophant.us/buy Art prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin... Shirts & merch: octophant.threadless.com

New blog post, a short one. Genealogy is frustrating, part XVXIIII!. graveyardsnoop.com/2026/07/30/c... #genealogy

Chain Migration

The links that connect families, and the links that are missing.

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Deciding when to turn someone down... My philosophy has been that because previous family members did a lot of genealogy work for me, I pay it forward by helping other people do searches (for free; I am an unpaid amateur). Sometimes I offer, sometimes a person seeks me out. /1

Headstone for Eugene Williams, whose murder was the first in a wave of racialized violence in Chicago in the summer of 1919. 102 years after his death, a group of people determined to see him remembered & honored were successful in getting his grave marked.

Robert Loerzel@robertloerzel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remembering victims of 1919 Chicago race riot: 38 names set in stone. A bike ride today will celebrate the completion and installation of 38 memorials. chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

The Washington Park neighborhood, where Buck Weaver and Joe Jackson owned businesses, “became a hotbed of racial tension.” The riot is almost never mentioned in articles or books about the Black Sox Scandal, but no one living in Chicago during the summer of 1919 could escape the citywide tension.

This is such an extraordinary project. No story about Chicago in 1919 can be told completely without Eugene Williams and the other victims of this week of terror.

Robert Loerzel@robertloerzel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remembering victims of 1919 Chicago race riot: 38 names set in stone. A bike ride today will celebrate the completion and installation of 38 memorials. chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

I hate to see a dying building & tend to avoid posting them, but there's a weird sort of beauty in the inexorable encroachment of nature as it reclaims spaces we thought were ours The New Majestic Theatre Architects: Boller Bros, 1928 East St Louis, Illinois

Martin Hewitt reminds us that digitized resources can be riddled with errors, such as awful OCR, transcription errors, and "names are distressingly unreliable markers of identity." Finally "lack of presence is not proof of absence" #RSVP2026 #PrintinMotion

Hi #genhour! My current research has me elbows-deep in Croatian church docs from the 1800s. I love a little light reading! 🙂

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

This Day in Labor History: July 12, 1917. The forces of order in Bisbee, Arizona rounded up anyone they thought was a member of the IWW, put them on train cars, and dropped them in the New Mexico desert. The government did nothing. Let's talk about the Bisbee Deportation!

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Reminder that we are still sending out anti-ICE whistles to anyone who needs them! Any quantity from 100-3000. Free. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don’t look away from Memphis. Don’t look away from Houston. Don’t look away at the nationwide ICE surge. The trump administration is counting on you losing interest and falling for its tweak in tactics. zeteo.com/p/trumps-vio...

One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.

Our access to historical records is directly affected by this closure. Thanks @chicagoarchivists.bsky.social for their attention to this. blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/06/c...

Chicago National Archives Closure Will Be Loss For Historians, Researchers — Even Deep-Sea Divers

The closure of the South Side center will take place “over the next few years.” The records and documents will be relocated, but it’s unclear where and how many employees are affected.

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In honor of AJ, I've put my Trophy Gold incursion "The Alluring" at $0. I want people to see her layout, her art design... all the work she put in to elevate the project. signalstation.itch.io/the-alluring...

Trophy Gold: The Alluring by Michael Van Vleet

An incursion into a crab-infested plague town.

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This tiny world is actually the top of a fence post.

Someone on Ancestry has attached a photo of my relative from the 1880s... to another ancestor who died in 1830. 🙄

BuffaloResearch.com@buffaloresearch.com · last mo.

If your ancestor, or anyone else you are researching, died before 1839, there will be zero photographs of him or her. Nada, none, zip. Why? Because photography was not invented until 1839. 🗃️

happy 163rd anniversary of pickett’s charge, a good reminder to all white supremacists to always run directly into cannon and rifle fire with no cover for a full mile. compliments of your master strategist, patron and noted hell resident robert e. “it’s supposed to smell like that” lee

This painting is a Lost Cause abomination, and is therefore being used in exactly the way intended. Depicting the victorious Grant as the vanquished supplicant to an upright and stalwart Lee (who hasn't even surrendered his sword!) is perfect propaganda for the unreconstructed rebels in charge now.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey, look at that, what had been subtext is once again just text. This is a Redeemer administration.

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

I understand SCOTUS, know who they are, & by all rational accounts it feels so naive to say: "I can't believe 4 of 9 justices said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship." And yet, I can't believe 4 of 9 justices just said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jun The DC-based Daughters of American Revolution, once a right-wing bastion of white women, overwhelmingly votes to reject ban on trans women joining and require members to be "born female" by a vote of 1,481-984. You GO, grrrls. www.them.us/story/daught...

Daughters of the American Revolution Live Up to Their Name by Rejecting Ban on Trans Women

“Transgender Americans are patriots, family members, volunteers, historians, and descendants of Revolutionary War ancestors just like anyone else.”

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I was really hoping this was a transcription error. But no, I think her name really was Sugar Meat. #genealogy

Watching old scenes of Obama as president feels like looking back at a planet we fell off of. How far that place seems from now.