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Jan Murphy
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Enthusiastic family historian since 2006; moderator pro tempore at Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange. http://genealogy.stackexchange.com Fan of F&SF, figure skating, baseball, equestrian sports, cycling. Former bookseller; book junkie.
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#4ContsFigure Storyline section shamelessly borrowed from imdb (note author's name in screenshot)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0099...
Plot summary from imdb Even though Sam Wheat, the successful investment counsellor, still finds it difficult to express his deeper feelings for her after all these years, his young potter girlfriend, Molly Jensen, is the love of his life. However, a curious case of a systematic discrepancy will prepare the ground for a hideous urban homicide in one of Manhattan's dark alleys, trapping, seemingly forever, the unfortunate deceased's immortal soul in the realm of the mortals. With the condemned spirit unable to interact with the physical world--and as Molly's life, too, is in grave danger--Sam will have to turn to the spiritual medium, Oda Mae Brown, to warn and protect her. Can Oda and the ghost settle the unfinished business in time?—Nick Riganas
January 24, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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www.isuresults.com/results/seas...
#4ContsFigure
Final 2 warm-up groups after ice resurfacing is finished
Remaining Starting Order Starting number followed by Skater's Name and Nation Warm-Up Group 4 16 Boyang JIN CHN 17 Jaekeun LEE KOR 18 Hyungyeom KIM KOR 19 Tomoki HIWATASHI USA 20 Roman SADOVSKY CAN Warm-Up Group 5 21 Kazuki TOMONO JPN 22 Sota YAMAMOTO JPN 23 Jacob SANCHEZ USA 24 Junhwan CHA KOR 25 Mikhail SHAIDOROV KAZ 26 Kao MIURA JPN
January 24, 2026 at 6:27 AM
packrat74.bsky.social
#4ContsFigure finally warm-up group 3 for ice dance!
Remaining Starting Order Warm-up Group 3 Starting number Name Nation Rank Points Remaining Starting Order 11 Holly HARRIS / Jason CHAN AUS 5 68.33 12 Alicia FABBRI / Paul AYER CAN 4 73.20 13 Oona BROWN / Gage BROWN USA 3 74.24 14 Caroline GREEN / Michael PARSONS USA 2 78.66 15 Emilea ZINGAS / Vadym KOLESNIK USA 1 79.97
January 23, 2026 at 6:08 AM
packrat74.bsky.social
We can't even see the replay videos.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FZn...
screenshot from YouTube, Skating ISU channel: black screen showing this text in white Video unavailable The uploader has not made this video available in your country LAURIN / ETHIER (CAN) | Pairs Short Program | Four Continents Champs | Beijing 2026
January 23, 2026 at 4:43 AM
packrat74.bsky.social
#4ContsFigure time schedule and links to entries, time schedules, results

www.isuresults.com/results/seas...
Four Continents Championship Time Schedule (Local Time, UTC +08:00) Date Time Category Segment 22.01.2026 12:51:00 Women Short Program 16:30:00 Ice Dance Rhythm Dance 20:00:00 Pairs Short Program 23.01.2026 12:15:00 Ice Dance Free Dance 18:07:40 Women Free Skating 24.01.2026 12:10:00 Men Short Program 19:45:00 Pairs Free Skating 25.01.2026 12:00:00 Men Free Skating
January 22, 2026 at 6:29 AM
packrat74.bsky.social
Time Schedule for the events at #EuroFigure (UTC) from www.isuresults.com/results/seas...
Time Schedule (Local Time, UTC +00:00) Date Time Category Segment 14.01.2026 13:00:00 Pairs Short Program 17:00:00 Women Short Program 15.01.2026 13:20:00 Men Short Program 19:00:00 Pairs Free Skating 16.01.2026 12:30:00 Ice Dance Rhythm Dance 18:00:00 Women Free Skating 17.01.2026 13:00:00 Men Free Skating 18:30:00 Ice Dance Free Dance
January 14, 2026 at 7:53 AM
packrat74.bsky.social
Preordered: Book 7 of Rachel Reid's Game Changers series, Unrivaled, available September 29, 2026. 💙📚
Screenshot of the illustrated cover of Rachel Reid's Unrivaled, book seven of her series Game Changers
January 14, 2026 at 3:50 AM
packrat74.bsky.social
This description of Victoria Goddard's book The Hands of the Emperor has a lovely Cordwainer Smith "the details follow" vibe to it.
An impulsive word can start a war. A timely word can stop one. A simple act of friendship can change the course of history. Cliopher Mdang is the personal secretary of the Last Emperor of Astandalas, the Lord of Rising Stars, the Lord Magus of Zunidh, the Sun-on-Earth, the god. He has spent more time with the Emperor of Astandalas than any other person. He has never once touched his lord. He has never called him by name. He has never initiated a conversation. One day Cliopher invites the Sun-on-Earth home to the proverbially remote Vangavaye-ve for a holiday. The mere invitation could have seen Cliopher executed for blasphemy. The acceptance upends the world.
January 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM
packrat74.bsky.social
#PrevagenUSChamps Starting order & Live leaderboard
Championship Men Warm-up Group 1 Time: 15:30:00
ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/...
Championship Men - Free Skating Starting Order Warm-Up Group 1 Standing Name Club Rank Points 1 Ken Mikawa Richmond FSC 18 51.69 2 Will Annis SC of Boston 17 54.95 3 Michael Xie SC of San Francisco 16 59.95 4 Emmanuel Savary University of Delaware FSC 15 60.21 5 Samuel Mindra Carousel FSC 14 65.02 6 Lorenzo Elano Skokie Valley SC 13 71.65
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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#PrevagenUSChamps Starting order & Live leaderboard
Championship Ice Dance - Free Dance Time: 14:28:00

ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/...
Starting order Warm-Up Group 1 Standing Name Club Rank Points 1 Vanessa Pham / Anton Spiridonov SC of Houston/SC of New York 15 61.41 2 Raffaella Koncius / Alexey Shchepetov Los Angeles FSC/Los Angeles FSC 14 65.15 3 Isabella Flores / Linus Colmor Jepsen Thunderbirds FSC/Individual Member 13 66.37 4 Amy Cui / Jonathan Rogers SC of Boston/Texas Gulf Coast FSC 12 67.60 5 Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal Scott Hamilton SC/Scott Hamilton SC 11 69.60
January 10, 2026 at 8:24 PM
packrat74.bsky.social
If anyone is keeping track, Harlequin sent me this email letting me know that the Game Changers books are back in stock. Look at the timestamp!

Dec 29, 2025, 7:40 AM (3 days ago)

Completely missing any Christmas buyers. 🙄
Screenshot from my Gmail: Subject: Back in stock: Rachel Reid's Heated Rivalry and Game Changers books! 🏒 tag: Inbox tag: Books Harlequin.com Newsletters <newsletters@e.harlequin.com> Unsubscribe Dec 29, 2025, 7:40 AM (3 days ago) to me
January 1, 2026 at 10:59 PM
packrat74.bsky.social
If I go in to look at my account (All-Access Gift Membership)
I see this. (I haven't checked yet to see what happens when I upgrade from the gift All-Access to the Family Plan All-Access.)
Modify membership Ancestry offers a variety of record collections, simply select the option that is most relevant to your research needs. U.S. Discovery Membership Price Monthly $24.99 Semi-annual Saves $$$119.00 Annual Saves $$$229.00 World Explorer Membership Price Monthly $39.99 Semi-annual Saves $$$169.00 Annual Saves $$$319.00 All Access Family Plan Price Monthly $59.99 Semi-annual Saves $$$259.00 Modify membership button is at the bottom
January 1, 2026 at 8:57 AM
packrat74.bsky.social
Now that the end-of-the-year sale on gift memberships is over, this is what Ancestry shows US customers buying gift memberships. There's a choice of 6 months or 12 months.
breakdown of gift memberships for USA from Ancestry: US Discovery $119 for 6 month, $229 for 12 months World Explorer $169 for 6 months, $319 for 12 months All-Access (Ancestry, Fold3, Newspapers dot com Publisher Extra) $259 for 6 months $479 for 12 months.
January 1, 2026 at 8:53 AM
packrat74.bsky.social
Happy New Year to you, and to all my #GenChat friends! Screenshot via "Quiet Posters" feed with you, @geneapleau.bsky.social and @cferra1227.bsky.social all in a row.
Screenshot of three of my friends from #GenChat wishing each other Happy New year, all in a clump, via Quiet Posters feed.
January 1, 2026 at 8:42 AM
packrat74.bsky.social
person getting a haircut + bullseye? Whut?

Anyway, ask the xkcd emojic 8 ball what's ahead for you in 2026!
xkcd.com/1525/
screenshot of xkcd emojic 8 ball cartoon. Question box: what will 2026 be like for me? answer: emoji of a person in the process of getting their hair cut, with scissors shown open next to the hair on their head. bullseye emoji with dart in the middle of red and white target
January 1, 2026 at 7:38 AM
packrat74.bsky.social
#OnePlaceWednesday You'd think I'd remember it was Antram, not Antrim, after finding this article from the
04 November 1851 issue of the Morning Chronicle (London, London, England) and others like it. Free to read at findmypast www.findmypast.com/image-viewer...
screenshot from newspaper article Secondly, That on the 31st day of January last, the said Richard Antram, being resident on his said benefice, and having no curate, and being informed of the weakness and danger of death of an infant unbaptised, in his said parish, the female child of William Kellond, a parisioner resident in the parish, and thereupon desired to go to the house of the said William Kellond, where the infant remained, to baptise the same, did either wilfully refuse to do so, or of purpose or of gross negligence did so defer the time, as when he might have conveniently have resorted to the said house and have baptised the said infant, the said child died, through his default, unbaptised. Thirdly, That on the 3rd day of March last, the said Richard Antram, being resident on his said benefice, and having no curate, did refuse or delay to bury the corpse, the child of George Perring, a parisioner of the said parish, brought to the churchyard (convenient warning being given to the said Richard Antram therof before), and did neglect to bury the said corpse.
December 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
packrat74.bsky.social
Stuff your e-reader with free hockey romances (and more) today. Image borrowed from author Nikki Hall's newsletter. (If you don't have an e-reader, use free Kindle & Kobo apps, read via Google Play, etc.)
Promotional art Stuff your reader with hockey romances cover art for Stephanie Kay's Center Ice Laura Marquez Diamond's Power Play Lasairiona McMaster's Pulling the Goalie Kim Findlay's Playing to Win Nikki Hall's Ice Cold Player Katie Kenyhercz's Carson City Saints: The Complete Series
December 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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#AncestryHour
Reposted with alt-text.
101 Reasons to preserve your family history posted by The Family Archives @thefamilyarchives.bsky.social‬ Number nine Quote from Walter Besant It is a fine thing for a great house whose history has been preserved. It makes one weep to think how our middle-class people neglect their genealogies, so that they know nothing of their own people, and have no pride, and learn no lesson from the past. Cannot something be done, my friends? Can we not write the annals of our own generation? Each of his own family, so that whatever the fate of our children and grandchildren, they too may feel that they have ancestors who lived and loved and hoped, and made a little success, perhaps, and died and were forgotten, as they, too, in their turns, shall die.
December 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
packrat74.bsky.social
#GenHour Sometime during my trial (30 days of use, not consecutive calendar days) I should try comparing GEDCOM files. 🤔
Beyond Compare is the popular choice for data comparison. Compare folders, text files, images, and tables. Review differences efficiently and merge changes with confidence.
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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This is how PG is formatted. See the wide margin on the left? If you read the epub, you can see all of the book on the right with no difficulty. For the pages that have notes in that left margin, you have to scroll over to see them, or zoom and read with your tablet sideways, 1/2 page at a time.
Screenshot of part of the table of contents for the book Professional Genealogy. The titles and pages are on the right-hand side of the page. On the left quarter of the page, there is a wide margin, which is blank on this particular page.
December 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Whoever does the publisher information for Kobo has a clue.

But despite having 271 reviews, there are NO customer reviews to be seen at Kobo's US store. Do I believe that 271 people left star reviews but no one wrote anything about the book? Reader, I do not.
Screenshot from Kobo's US store shows book cover, 8.99 USD Heated Rivalry Now Streaming on Crave and HBO Max by Rachel Reid Book 2 - Game Changers (271 reviews, 4.5 stars) 2023 ・EN ・Accessible **Based on Rachel Reid’s bestselling Game Changers book series, Heated Rivalry is now streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S. Discover all 6 books in the series!The epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance from** USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid**.**Nothing interferes with pro hockey...
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
packrat74.bsky.social
#GenHour Wait, what? What?

www.ancestry.com/milestones?f...
We’re making family discoveries even easier! Now you can: 1 Search for ancestors just using photos of their faces 2 Transcribe any document you upload 3 Quickly preview records just by hovering over the image
December 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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#AncestryHour If you prefer pbooks to digital downloads, here's the info on the Black Friday sale at Pen & Sword.
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
Black Friday sale now on! Save 30% of RRPS* until 1 December on www.pen-and-sword.co.uk! *Discount applies off RRP Not in conjuction with any other offers Excludes all titles from Script Books and Spink Does not apply to digital downloads
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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That reminds me. I'm not sure if I've ever posted this to #AncestryHour, but people with Ag Labs in England in their family tree might want to follow @themerl.bsky.social because how can you resist content like this? 🐏
Black and white photo of a very chonky ram, posted by The Museum of English Rural Life, with the caption “Look at this absolute unit”
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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#GPFigure #SkateAmerica Yeah, I heard it, too. If Johnny wanted to say that in a podcast, whatever, but it was out of line for him to say it on air. If you want to call someone out for having a lackluster programs, at least be professional about it.
I was watching the women’s FS replay this morning (I had to work yesterday but was able to catch snippets), and my jaw dropped when I thought I heard Johnny say he has had more fun watching people do puzzles on a park bench as Chayeon’s FS was concluding. When I tried to rewatch later to verify, the audio/comment was gone, and I thought I had hallucinated it. Did anyone else hear this?
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM