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Valorie
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Family, PFLAG, genealogy, anthropology, history, gardens, KDE, Kubuntu,; lover of art, music, literature, books, film, nature, all things free and open. She/her
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So much violence, hatred and pain in this world.

Aeschylus: "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

Peace is the only way to peace.
The point of family history is finding out!
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On Saturday morning the 3rd October 1959 in an 18th century workers cottage on Scotts Yard in Ossett I was born. Tomorrow I receive my first state pension payment. Where on earth has the time gone. In my head I'm still around thirty. (It is the one at the top of the photograph)
Finding the answer IS valuable work!
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How's a person supposed to get any work done when items like this crop in old newspapers?

Who was Joseph Shore. What was his relationship to Alice Jones? What were the books? What happened to them?

I need to know more...
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Such a rarity. Tim Cook -- passionate ambassador for Canadian military history, and someone who was able to articulate and disseminate so well to so many. His loss is a real blow, made more painful at the young age of 54. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Tim Cook, chief historian at Canadian War Museum, dies at 54 | CBC News
Tim Cook, the chief historian at the Canadian War Museum and the country’s “pre-eminent military historian,” has died, the museum announced Sunday.
www.cbc.ca
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The North Yorkshire Moors Railway began life as the Whitby & Pickering Railway, opened in 1836 with horse-drawn carriages running through the moorland valleys to boost Whitby’s flagging status. Designed by George Stephenson, it was among Britain’s earliest branch lines, carrying
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Oooh this is exciting 👇🏻

#FamilyHistory
#Research
#Genealogy
News: Individual subscriptions for British History Online are now available again!

£50 for a years access to 209 high quality transcriptions of volumes of state archives.

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#31DaysofGraves Day 27-Tree
My dad took these photos sometime in the 50s at Old Rock Landing Cemetery in Hadam, Connecticut on a day when he was out snapping photos of the fall foliage. He took one full headstone photo, allowing me to identify the cemetery.
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Pisa, Italy.
There is still beauty in the world.
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Tonight at 7:30 pm! There's still time to register for our October branch meeting. Come hear Drew Von Hasselbach tell the story of The Dead from Down the Street, with opening act OISE Library's Special Collections. Register for your Zoom link here:
torontofamilyhistory.org/event/dead-f...
GREAT research which shows the value of #DNA and collaboration with matches
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St Helen’s Church, Skipwith is marked by its Saxon tower, built around 960 AD, with traces of an even earlier church beneath it. In the vestry stands the Ragnarok Stone, carved with a Norse vision of the world’s end whilst above, a small chamber with a window-lit recess may
Hmmm, by the time I saw this, the link to the book was "deleted"