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Jan Murphy
@packrat74.bsky.social
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.
#4ContsFigure Storyline section shamelessly borrowed from imdb (note author's name in screenshot)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0099...
January 24, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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#4ContsFigure
Final 2 warm-up groups after ice resurfacing is finished
January 24, 2026 at 6:27 AM
#4ContsFigure finally warm-up group 3 for ice dance!
January 23, 2026 at 6:08 AM
We can't even see the replay videos.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FZn...
January 23, 2026 at 4:43 AM
#4ContsFigure time schedule and links to entries, time schedules, results

www.isuresults.com/results/seas...
January 22, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Time Schedule for the events at #EuroFigure (UTC) from www.isuresults.com/results/seas...
January 14, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Preordered: Book 7 of Rachel Reid's Game Changers series, Unrivaled, available September 29, 2026. 💙📚
January 14, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This description of Victoria Goddard's book The Hands of the Emperor has a lovely Cordwainer Smith "the details follow" vibe to it.
January 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM
#PrevagenUSChamps Starting order & Live leaderboard
Championship Men Warm-up Group 1 Time: 15:30:00
ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/...
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
#PrevagenUSChamps Starting order & Live leaderboard
Championship Ice Dance - Free Dance Time: 14:28:00

ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/...
January 10, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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. 🙄
January 1, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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.)
January 1, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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.
January 1, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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.
January 1, 2026 at 8:42 AM
person getting a haircut + bullseye? Whut?

Anyway, ask the xkcd emojic 8 ball what's ahead for you in 2026!
xkcd.com/1525/
January 1, 2026 at 7:38 AM
#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...
December 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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.)
December 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
#AncestryHour
Reposted with alt-text.
December 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#GenHour Sometime during my trial (30 days of use, not consecutive calendar days) I should try comparing GEDCOM files. 🤔
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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.
December 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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.
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
December 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
#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
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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? 🐏
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
#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.
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM