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Caught your aside about Ralph Nader in the last ep. Highly recommend Nader’s Museum of Torts in Winsted CT. It showcases consumer liability cases though history. Ralph created the exhibits. If you visit be sure to comment in the visitor book. Ralph reads it every Sunday.

Join us for a discussion about the uses of micro-history Thursday at 7 PM EDT. You can register at ProjectKin - it's free! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I will be talking with the incomparable Barbara Tien @projectkin.bsky.social on Thursday, August 7th at 7 EST about the uses of micro-history and how the tools and concepts of micro-history can enrich our family history writing. You can register here!
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When I first got interested in family history as a teenager, I was disappointed my ancestors weren’t remarkable. Now I am fascinated by ordinary lives. They offer the opportunity to do original historical research. The more ordinary your family, the more they may tell us something we didn’t know.

When I first got interested in family history as a teenager, I was disappointed my ancestors weren’t remarkable. Now I am fascinated by ordinary lives. They offer the opportunity to do original historical research. The more ordinary your family, the more they may tell us something we didn’t know.

Beaubassin 1682: Part 5 - The Tide Pulls Back

Part IV of the chronicle of Beaubassin

Beaubassin 1678: Part 4 - The Brode Extinguisher

"Sometimes what people leave behind are not loud monuments, sometimes they are tiny quiet marks… sometimes the past is waiting to be found in the smallest details.” Great conversation with J.D. Murgolo about silverware, memory, and what we can discover about our families in objects left behind.

Part 3 of the Morins of Beaubassin open.substack.com/pub/ancestor...

Part 2 of the Morins of Beaubassin.

In 1688 the Morin family were expelled from their village of Beaubassin, Nova Scotia. They walked into the winter wilderness taking only what they could carry. Why this happened is the story of Beaubassin—a tale of village rebellion, a witch trial, and forbidden love.
First installment linked here.

The broadcast journalist Gayle King and the singer Katy Perry were set to make a brief trip into space on Monday on a flight operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. It would be the first time an all-female crew has been to space since 1963.

Here's the latest.

Emigrant brothers whose love for each other and their hometown crossed oceans.

Few people know that Quebec City was once an Irish town. The story of the Byrnes --three generations of Irish stevedores, and the port and city that was their home.

A story about growing up never really fitting in…and fleas. ancestory.Substack.com #irishincanada #montrealirish #ndgmontreal #timessquare #fleascircus