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Alison Spring
@acspring.bsky.social
Glasgow-ish based
Qualified Genealogist @ RQG, specialising in Scottish research https://tinyurl.com/FrugalFH
Speaker - see my talks listed at https://tinyurl.com/yb9cht29
Frugal Family Historian - http://scotsancestors.blogspot.com
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I've just added some new presentations - if you're a family history society or heritage group looking for speakers, take a look at my list of topics at tinyurl.com/2s4jch96 and get in touch!
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ATTN GENEALOGISTS: Please read and share this post - important info on #AI and #photo regeneration. @craigenorg.bsky.social #craigen #artificialintelligence
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The power of memoir and storytelling may take generations, but it is real.

Rest in peace, Viola Fletcher.

#FamilyHistory #memoir #tulsa #ViolaFletcher

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Dig deeper into your Scottish roots at the Scottish Indexes Conference on 31 Jan 2026.

Free online talks on marriage, DNA, illicit distilling, church records & more. Save the date!

#Scottish #FamilyHistory #ScottishIndexes #Genealogy #Archives
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Jackie Baillie wants to privatise our NHS!!
That's why she continuously lies about the Scottish NHS when it is the best performing NHS in the UK. She's shown her true colours
#RedTory
#LabourLiar
Independence is our only option
www.thenational.scot/news/2443689...
Jackie Baillie backs Wes Streeting's NHS private sector plans
SCOTTISH Labour’s deputy leader has suggested the Scottish Government should follow Wes Streeting’s plans for heavier involvement of the private…
www.thenational.scot
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Curious about your ancestors but not sure where to turn next? The Register of Qualified Genealogists (RQG) can connect you with trusted professionals who know how to find the records, stories, and details that bring your family history to life.
#genealogy #familyhistory
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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“I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Today Trump says he didn't know about Epstein's activities.
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Plus, AI is inaccurate. #AI = Audrey II. Feed Me!
youtu.be/K6w3xb8gqpE?...
Little Shop of Horrors - "Feed Me" (1986) - (4K)
YouTube video by VideoXL
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November 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.

🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.

It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.

My letter to my MP.

#asylum #Mahmood

🧵
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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At the
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
And today's discovery combines my two great loves: NBC's Law & Order, and family history (I think it's to do with detective work). A distant paternal cousin has made it into the records in the Bronx. #GenHour
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My first big find this week was about a distant cousin. Her husband's 1st wife left him + kids for a man who'd killed a PC in London. Big tell-all article in a Sunday scandal sheet from the 1st wife's pov. Later a (much) smaller article in the local paper announced the ensuing divorce #GenHour
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
New post on the Frugal Family Historian blog. Free records for Remembrance weekend, YouTube, podcasts. It's all about researching, and picking up new skills. Learn more, do more, spend nothing. #GenHour scotsancestors.blogspot.com/2025/11/lear...
Learn/do more, spend nothing
scotsancestors.blogspot.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New post on the Frugal Family Historian blog. Free records for Remembrance weekend, YouTube, podcasts. It's all about researching, and picking up new skills. Learn more, do more, spend nothing. #AncestryHour scotsancestors.blogspot.com/2025/11/lear...
Learn/do more, spend nothing
scotsancestors.blogspot.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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This bonfire night, check bonfire piles for #hedgehogs.
Don't burn a hedgehogs home.
Look BEFORE you light.
🦔 🦔 🦔

Please #ShareToMakeAware 🙏

#RememberHedgehogs #LookBeforeYouLight #WildlifeWednesday #bonfirenight #bonfirewarning #wildlifewarning
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Well-meaning Americans in my mentions: kindly do not recommend extremely illegal actions that could land people in the UK with a ten year prison sentence
November 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
#31DaysofGraves #Day31 #MementoMori The clasped hands on this stone, in Collace churchyard, symbolise the hoped-for reunion in heaven with loved ones.
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 AM
#31DaysofGraves #Day30 #Colour In Scotland, the Surname BLUE is almost entirely confined to the west and its islands. One would think it pretty rare, until you scroll through a census and find villages significantly populated by Blues. This particular stone is in Kilkerran Cemetery in Campbeltown.
October 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
#31DaysofGraves #Day29 #Occupation This memorial is in Elgin Cathedral churchyard and is possibly a relative. My 5th great-grandparents, George Sellar (also a miller) & Janet Arnot, married in 1794, have a stone here but it is impossible to read now. Transcription of this stone is in the alt text.
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#31DaysofGraves #Day28 #Column All right, so it's not a column, but it IS one of only two such structures in Scotland, copied from the Irish round tower style. It's now attached to Brechin Cathedral, but was originally free-standing. More at www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-plac...
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#31DaysofGraves #Day27 #Tree A springtime visit this year to the Scottish county of Angus found me in St Vigeans churchyard amidst some beautiful blossoms on the trees.
October 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM