Melissa Grandt
@melissagrandt.bsky.social
Genealogist & family historian. Native of West Branch, Iowa.
Research Loves: Iowa, US Midwest, Quakers, US Military. She/her.
Research Loves: Iowa, US Midwest, Quakers, US Military. She/her.
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Melissa Grandt
@melissagrandt.bsky.social
· Nov 14
This is me: A lifelong family historian, keeper of treasures & family secrets. Research passions include: Iowa, US military, and Quaker records. Always working on my next line. Also love women's basketball, including 6-on-6 history in Iowa. #genealogy
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Steve has recommended three websites for anyone seeking info on railway accidents in, or affecting people from, their #OnePlaceStudies:
✦ Railway Archives
✦ Railway Work, Life & Death Project – @rwldproject.bsky.social
✦ Railway Fatal Accidents – Steve’s own website
#OPSConf25
✦ Railway Archives
✦ Railway Work, Life & Death Project – @rwldproject.bsky.social
✦ Railway Fatal Accidents – Steve’s own website
#OPSConf25
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Steve has recommended three websites for anyone seeking info on railway accidents in, or affecting people from, their #OnePlaceStudies:
✦ Railway Archives
✦ Railway Work, Life & Death Project – @rwldproject.bsky.social
✦ Railway Fatal Accidents – Steve’s own website
#OPSConf25
✦ Railway Archives
✦ Railway Work, Life & Death Project – @rwldproject.bsky.social
✦ Railway Fatal Accidents – Steve’s own website
#OPSConf25
Is there a Judy Blume book to let us know what to expect w perimenopause? Asking for a friend. 🥵
October 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Is there a Judy Blume book to let us know what to expect w perimenopause? Asking for a friend. 🥵
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A Compelling and Detailed Case Study #DNA #DNATip #GeneticGenealogy #Genealogy #Ancestry #DavisDNATip
www.knowwhowearsthegenesinyourfamily.com/blog/uncover...
www.knowwhowearsthegenesinyourfamily.com/blog/uncover...
Tracing a Powerful Legacy: African American, Cherokee Freedmen, and Trail of Tears Ancestry
Discover the compelling story of a genealogy case that uncovered African American and Native American ancestry, including Cherokee Freedmen, Trail of Tears survivors, and free African Americans before...
www.knowwhowearsthegenesinyourfamily.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A Compelling and Detailed Case Study #DNA #DNATip #GeneticGenealogy #Genealogy #Ancestry #DavisDNATip
www.knowwhowearsthegenesinyourfamily.com/blog/uncover...
www.knowwhowearsthegenesinyourfamily.com/blog/uncover...
Odd question and I'm not sure if there's an answer. In the U.S., once Rural Routes were put in place for post delivery, many people would just have the address "RR1" or "RR5 Box 178". Is there any way to find out these old routes? I do have some land records, but I am looking at people who rented.
June 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Odd question and I'm not sure if there's an answer. In the U.S., once Rural Routes were put in place for post delivery, many people would just have the address "RR1" or "RR5 Box 178". Is there any way to find out these old routes? I do have some land records, but I am looking at people who rented.
Have ancestors from Pennsylvania who claimed Pennsylvania Dutch. What would I look for if I was looking for signs of Braucherei or folk magic coming down the generations? #genealogy #folkmagic
April 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Have ancestors from Pennsylvania who claimed Pennsylvania Dutch. What would I look for if I was looking for signs of Braucherei or folk magic coming down the generations? #genealogy #folkmagic
This Is the Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m... @taffyakner.bsky.social
This Is the Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write
For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This Is the Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m... @taffyakner.bsky.social
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Apparently 1620 wasn't such a good year either! #GraveHumor #Genealogy
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Family historians know all about this. #genealogy
Pretty much everything they say about immigrants today they said about your grandparents and great-grandparents.
Support and defend immigrants today like they’re your own grandparents.
Support and defend immigrants today like they’re your own grandparents.
a group of people are sitting at a table and one of them is saying hey i 've seen this one .
ALT: a group of people are sitting at a table and one of them is saying hey i 've seen this one .
media.tenor.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Family historians know all about this. #genealogy
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📜 Front Porch Tip #4 📜
Use multiple records! No single document is 100% right—cross-check census, vital, and land records for the full picture. Your ancestors left more clues than you think! 🧐 #genealogy #FrontPorchTips
Use multiple records! No single document is 100% right—cross-check census, vital, and land records for the full picture. Your ancestors left more clues than you think! 🧐 #genealogy #FrontPorchTips
February 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
📜 Front Porch Tip #4 📜
Use multiple records! No single document is 100% right—cross-check census, vital, and land records for the full picture. Your ancestors left more clues than you think! 🧐 #genealogy #FrontPorchTips
Use multiple records! No single document is 100% right—cross-check census, vital, and land records for the full picture. Your ancestors left more clues than you think! 🧐 #genealogy #FrontPorchTips
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The stands at an eastern Iowa high school basketball game were filled with purple shirts and ribbons in memory of the school’s cheerleader who lost her life in a crash.
High school’s only basketball cheerleader dies in crash on way to school at just 14 years old
An Iowa community is coming together to honor a high school cheerleader who was killed in a crash.
www.kbtx.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The stands at an eastern Iowa high school basketball game were filled with purple shirts and ribbons in memory of the school’s cheerleader who lost her life in a crash.
This video takes the viewer on a guided tour of the Newberry's "Indigenous Chicago" exhibition, on view from September 12, 2024, through January 4, 2025. youtu.be/1bYbeSMvPEQ?... #genealogy #familyhistory #indigenoushistory #chicagohistory
"Indigenous Chicago" Video Tour
YouTube video by newberrylibrary
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February 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This video takes the viewer on a guided tour of the Newberry's "Indigenous Chicago" exhibition, on view from September 12, 2024, through January 4, 2025. youtu.be/1bYbeSMvPEQ?... #genealogy #familyhistory #indigenoushistory #chicagohistory
What????? It is no longer maintained and updated? grrrrrrrr
February 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
What????? It is no longer maintained and updated? grrrrrrrr
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Iowa Free Online Genealogy Research Toolkit
Do you have "go-to" websites for searching for Iowa #genealogy records? Here are 80 free websites for you to use for your research. Maybe there are a few you don't use or haven't heard of.
Get this Free Downloadable Toolkit at https://buff.ly/3dlwtR2
Do you have "go-to" websites for searching for Iowa #genealogy records? Here are 80 free websites for you to use for your research. Maybe there are a few you don't use or haven't heard of.
Get this Free Downloadable Toolkit at https://buff.ly/3dlwtR2
February 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Iowa Free Online Genealogy Research Toolkit
Do you have "go-to" websites for searching for Iowa #genealogy records? Here are 80 free websites for you to use for your research. Maybe there are a few you don't use or haven't heard of.
Get this Free Downloadable Toolkit at https://buff.ly/3dlwtR2
Do you have "go-to" websites for searching for Iowa #genealogy records? Here are 80 free websites for you to use for your research. Maybe there are a few you don't use or haven't heard of.
Get this Free Downloadable Toolkit at https://buff.ly/3dlwtR2
OK, was finally able to get into this and OMG the treasure trove. 69 PAGES. #militaryhistory
So just got some records from the VA....on CD. So, now I need to find a computer w a CD reader. What is this - 2005?
February 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
OK, was finally able to get into this and OMG the treasure trove. 69 PAGES. #militaryhistory
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Louisiana Free Online Genealogy Research Toolkit
Do you have "go-to" websites for searching for Louisiana #genealogy records? Here are 80 free websites for you to use. Maybe there are a few you don't use or haven't heard of.
Get this Free Downloadable Toolkit at https://buff.ly/3dfg5BD
Do you have "go-to" websites for searching for Louisiana #genealogy records? Here are 80 free websites for you to use. Maybe there are a few you don't use or haven't heard of.
Get this Free Downloadable Toolkit at https://buff.ly/3dfg5BD
February 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Louisiana Free Online Genealogy Research Toolkit
Do you have "go-to" websites for searching for Louisiana #genealogy records? Here are 80 free websites for you to use. Maybe there are a few you don't use or haven't heard of.
Get this Free Downloadable Toolkit at https://buff.ly/3dfg5BD
Do you have "go-to" websites for searching for Louisiana #genealogy records? Here are 80 free websites for you to use. Maybe there are a few you don't use or haven't heard of.
Get this Free Downloadable Toolkit at https://buff.ly/3dfg5BD
So just got some records from the VA....on CD. So, now I need to find a computer w a CD reader. What is this - 2005?
February 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
So just got some records from the VA....on CD. So, now I need to find a computer w a CD reader. What is this - 2005?
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The Forensic Genealogy Behind a Netflix Hit. Genetic genealogists helped solve a 16-year-old double-murder that inspired The Breakthrough. See how it happened. https://buff.ly/4g9Q80P? #DNAtesting #Genealogy #GeneticGenealogy #Crime
The Breakthrough True Story: Inside the 2004 Double-Murder That Inspired the Netflix Series (and Why the Case Went Unsolved for 16 Years!)
Netflix's 'The Breakthrough' is inspired by the double murder that occurred in Sweden in 2004. Here's everything to know about the true story that inspired 'The Breakthrough.'
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January 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Forensic Genealogy Behind a Netflix Hit. Genetic genealogists helped solve a 16-year-old double-murder that inspired The Breakthrough. See how it happened. https://buff.ly/4g9Q80P? #DNAtesting #Genealogy #GeneticGenealogy #Crime
Are we losing the ability to write by hand? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?
We are far more likely to use our hands to type or swipe than pick up a pen. But in the process we are in danger of losing cognitive skills, sensory experience – and a connection to history
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Are we losing the ability to write by hand? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
Random thought as I am browning up some ground pork sausage. When you're doing old family recipes take into account what was normal in their region. 1/
January 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Random thought as I am browning up some ground pork sausage. When you're doing old family recipes take into account what was normal in their region. 1/
How is it that Schindler's List is not streaming somewhere? I want to show it to my kids.
January 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
How is it that Schindler's List is not streaming somewhere? I want to show it to my kids.
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Texas--with one of the country's strictest abortion bans, highest maternal mortality rates, and the most women without health insurance--faces an "epidemic" of abandoned babies, some being found in ditches and dumpsters wapo.st/3ZXDbks
‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.
Critics say these cases are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care.
wapo.st
December 28, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Texas--with one of the country's strictest abortion bans, highest maternal mortality rates, and the most women without health insurance--faces an "epidemic" of abandoned babies, some being found in ditches and dumpsters wapo.st/3ZXDbks
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For day 4 of our 12 Days of Preservation we highlight expanding The Liberty Trail outside of South Carolina, laying the groundwork for future digital guides that connect Revolutionary War sites across the nation.
💡 Learn more about the milestone: bit.ly/3DJbC6Y
📱 Explore the app: bit.ly/4guukxK
💡 Learn more about the milestone: bit.ly/3DJbC6Y
📱 Explore the app: bit.ly/4guukxK
New Digital App Provides a 'Pocket Historian' for Visitors Touring New Jersey’s Revolutionary History
(Princeton, N.J.) — A new app from the American Battlefield Trust and its Garden State partners is ready to provide visitors with a “pocket historian”...
www.battlefields.org
December 28, 2024 at 5:02 PM
For day 4 of our 12 Days of Preservation we highlight expanding The Liberty Trail outside of South Carolina, laying the groundwork for future digital guides that connect Revolutionary War sites across the nation.
💡 Learn more about the milestone: bit.ly/3DJbC6Y
📱 Explore the app: bit.ly/4guukxK
💡 Learn more about the milestone: bit.ly/3DJbC6Y
📱 Explore the app: bit.ly/4guukxK
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Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive & must be kept in a lead-lined box. If you visit the Pierre & Marie Curie Collection at the Bibliotheque Nationale in France, many of her personal items—from her furniture to cookbooks—require protective clothing to be safely handled. #histsci
December 23, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive & must be kept in a lead-lined box. If you visit the Pierre & Marie Curie Collection at the Bibliotheque Nationale in France, many of her personal items—from her furniture to cookbooks—require protective clothing to be safely handled. #histsci
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/u/uncovered-history explores the traditional Christmas narrative of Jesus’ birth, and the different biblical sources we have on it. #Christmas
How much of the Biblical story of Christmas is historically plausible?
This is an interesting question and one that I love discussing because it's deeply fascinating. So before I can fully answer your question, I...
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December 23, 2024 at 9:36 PM
/u/uncovered-history explores the traditional Christmas narrative of Jesus’ birth, and the different biblical sources we have on it. #Christmas
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Over the years, textile conservator Gwen Spicer, who owns and operates Spicer Art Conservation LLC in Upstate New York, has used her talents to help save and conserve over 300 American flags from the American Revolution all the way to the Vietnam War and 9/11. www.battlefields.org/learn/articl...
Narrative Threads
Symbolically, a flag is far more than a colorful banner and that meaning is not subject to physical deterioration. But the cloth itself can fray, stain,...
www.battlefields.org
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Over the years, textile conservator Gwen Spicer, who owns and operates Spicer Art Conservation LLC in Upstate New York, has used her talents to help save and conserve over 300 American flags from the American Revolution all the way to the Vietnam War and 9/11. www.battlefields.org/learn/articl...