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WikiTree @wikitree.bsky.social · 4d

🧩This Week's #ConnectionCheckers: New Zealand Edition!🇳🇿 #SirEdmundHilary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4md...
How close are you to Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to summit Everest? Play now
#CollaborativeGenealogy

🧩This Week's #ConnectionCheckers: New Zealand Edition!🇳🇿 #SirEdmundHilary

Kia Ora, genealogy enthusiasts! This week we're taking our family tree game to Aotearoa! 🌿 ➡️ https://www.WikiTree.com/g2g/1947577 THE CHALLENGE: How closely are you connected to New Zealand's…

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 4d

This week, join Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle for a conversation on the past, present & future of the Web.

📅 Thurs Oct 9, 7:30 PM PT
🎟️ In-person
➡️ blog.archive.org/event/buildi...

Headshots of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle.

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Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social · 4d

🖼️ The Boy in the Painting: Marcus Thomas 1768–1816
Join us online this Thursday, 9 Oct, 14:00–15:00, for a talk tracing the life of Marcus Richard Fitzroy Thomas. #BlackHistoryMonth

🎟️ Book now: portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...

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Jill Ball aka GeniAus @geniaus.bsky.social · 5d

#convicts #australia #transportation #familyhistory

Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 6d

200 years ago a woman named Margaret McDonald was transported to Australia for using and passing on forged bank notes. We found her in some rare documents in the archives. This is her story. #Dundee #Archives

The Female Convict of 1825

We found an interesting series of documents tucked away in the Towns Clerk’s correspondence file of 1825.

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Jill Ball aka GeniAus @geniaus.bsky.social · 8d

Listening to Animal #Stories on the weekly Friday Hangout with the SAG @socaustgen.bsky.social #familyhistory #genealogy

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 9d

📢 The #InternetArchive is celebrating an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved by the #WaybackMachine. 🎉

Join us!
📆 Weds, Oct 22

🎟️ IN-PERSON: 5–10 PM PT (SF) ⤵️
www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...

💻 ONLINE: 7–8 PM PT ⤵️
www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...

#Wayback1T

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Jill Ball aka GeniAus @geniaus.bsky.social · 9d

The @wikitree.bsky.social #sourceathon

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Jill Ball aka GeniAus @geniaus.bsky.social · 9d

Identify the gaps in your #research #genealogy #familyhistory

Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 9d

Loved seeing this on our Bluesky feed yesterday after we posted about our Blogging and Social Media Prompt for October, #OnePlaceTimelines! Timelines can be great tools for researching, and presenting info about, #FamilyHistory and #OnePlaceStudies.

Blogging and Social Media Prompt, October 2025: #OnePlaceTimelines.
Image: A representation of a timeline, in the form of a line from left to right across the image, with lines extending up and down from it at intervals and joining with circle shapes; instead of dates or years in the circles, there are letters, spelling out the word timelines.
Web address: www.one-place-studies.org/blogging-prompts/
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 9d

Love this “Curse Against Book Stealers” in the Special Collections room of Dalhousie’s Killam Memorial Library in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 😂
#LibrarySky #Uplift

Printed sign on a wall titled “Curse Against Book Stealers,” describing a curse from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona that threatens severe punishments—including being bitten by serpents, afflicted with disease, gnawed by bookworms, and consumed by the flames of Hell—for anyone who steals a book from the library.

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Jill Ball aka GeniAus @geniaus.bsky.social · 9d

#Travel got in the way of my #reading in the past few months. I only managed to read ten #books
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A Lean Three Months

As we travelled for two of the last three months my reading suffered. Somehow, even though I didn't read much, I am still on track to reach ...

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Jill Ball aka GeniAus @geniaus.bsky.social · 11d

Latest post on my #oneplacestudies blog. careybay2283.blogspot.com/2025/09/seli...

#familyhistory #localhiistory #CareyBay #LakeMacquarie

Selina the Socialite

Mrs Squirrell (nee Selina Burnage) featured regularly in the newspapers on Trove . She appeared to be socially active into her tenth decad...

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Helen @helen60.bsky.social · 11d

I've just received a reply to an email I sent in June 2017! 😁 The email was to a hotel in Shimla, India, which was built by Charles Harris Barrett a relative of my husband, in the early 1800s. I think they want to use the information on their website! #genealogy

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Marian Burk Wood @climbingfamilytree.bsky.social · 18d

#Genealogy #Free on Oct 15 at 10 am Eastern US time: My live webinar about Bite-Sized #FamilyHistory projects, including gift ideas now that holiday time is approaching. #AncestryHour #GenHour It's a good good time to try #Ancestor coloring books & more! To register: pmlib.libnet.info/event/14103057

Bring Family History Alive in Bite-Sized Projects

Discover creative, bite-sized ways to document and share your family history through short, focused projects like ancestor bios, heirloom stories, and photo or video keepsakes. Attend via Zoom only.

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Jane Hough 🌳🧬🏡 @allthosebefore.bsky.social · 11d

My top tip would be to look for Facebook groups based on a location you’re interested in. Groups like “history of ” or “old photos of ” can be an amazing resource. They’re useful for #OnePlaceStudies as well as #FamilyHistory. I’ve even connected with cousins this way! #AncestryHour

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Áine ní Donnghaile 🍃🌳 ⚾ 🫖 💙☘ 🍷💉🌊 @ainedonnghaile.bsky.social · 15d

#NewYorkGenealogy #FamilyHistory

NYG&B releases major addition: free, enhanced index FamilySearch digital collection New York, Land Records, 1630–1975. The searchable index consists of 63.5 million records for more than 32 million transactions, including deeds, mortgages, patents, and land grants.

Now Launched: New York Land Records Index

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Public Record Office Victoria @vicarchives.bsky.social · 12d

This #WorldPodcastDay is the perfect time to catch up on our Look History in the Eye episodes. From prison escapes to flappers, there's something for everyone: prov.vic.gov.au/look-history...

a man's mugshot with the words 'pentridge prison escape'

a drawing of aquatic style buildings with the words 'utopian paradise or monstrous monuments?'

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Not Quite Old @notquiteold.bsky.social · 12d

Smile at yourself!
Every time you see a mirror today,
(Maybe drink a lot of water
so it’s often)
Look at yourself and
Smile.
Big smile. Little smile.
Shy smile. Silly smile.
Maybe even laugh.
See how it feels.
Maybe do it
Not just for today.
Every day.

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Jill Ball aka GeniAus @geniaus.bsky.social · 12d

A unique way to honour your #ancestors or people in your #oneplacestudy #familyhistory #genealogy

Friends of Toowong Cemetery @fotc.au · 12d

Every day in October we'll be posting photos as part of #31DaysOfGraves.

You can play along to... Post a cemetery or headstone photo that matches each day's prompt and tag it with #31DaysOfGraves.

Day 1:Flower
Day 2: Nautical
Day 3: Tomb...

See the full list in the image and alt text below.

Day 1: Flower
Day 2: Nautical
Day 3: Tomb
Day 4: Languages
Day 5: Bird
Day 6: Gender
Day 7: Angel
Day 8: Glass
Day 9: Hand
Day 10: Urn
Day 11: Military
Day 12: Notable woman
Day 13: Skeleton
Day 14: Inside
Day 15: Damaged
Day 16: Obelisk
Day 17: Relocated
Day 18: Mistake
Day 19: Social group
Day 20: Wreath
Day 21: Bronze
Day 22: Landscape
Day 23: Cross
Day 24: Unique animal
Day 25: Graveside ornament
Day 26: Figure
Day 27: Tree
Day 28: Column
Day 29: Occupation
Day 30: Colour
Day 31: Memento mori

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WikiTree @wikitree.bsky.social · 12d

We're honored to announce David Allen Lambert as a Speaker for the WikiTree Symposium! www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Wi... Registration for this free genealogy conference opens Oct 1st
#WikiTreeSymposium2025

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WikiTree @wikitree.bsky.social · 15d

We're honored to announce Maureen Taylor as a Speaker for the WikiTree Symposium!
www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Wi...
Registration for this free genealogy conference opens Oct 1st

#WikiTreeSymposium2025

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Pam Smith @genejean.bsky.social · 15d

Delighted to return to @familyhistpod.bsky.social!

Andrew & I discuss the IHGS Licentiate, #GingerGoodwin & how I solved my brick wall on Sir Richard Etherington in #Rillington #OnePlaceStudy

I was one of the first guests back in Series 1 & the first to take part in the Brick Dust series.

The Family Histories Podcast @familyhistpod.bsky.social · 16d

S01EP09 – BRICKDUST with Pam Smith

Join host Andrew and guest Pam Smith from Season One for this first Brickdust episode: Did Pam break through her brick wall and find the Etherington connection?