Prairie Roots Genealogy
@prairiegenealogy.bsky.social
Prairie Roots is the alter ego of Janelle, who is passionate about #midwest #michigan #scottish #irish and #frenchcanadian #genealogy and is learning more every day. Still under construction as a genealogist and a human. PrairieRootsGenealogy.com
The Great Lakes area is one of my main areas of focus - and where my family tree has been concentrated for hundreds of years now (primarily in Michigan, but also Ontario, Quebec, Ohio, Indiana, and of course Wisconsin where I live now). How about you all?
❓#QuestionOfTheWeek Do you have ancestors with roots around the Great Lakes? 🗺️
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From Ontario to Ohio, Minnesota to Michigan—the Great Lakes region holds countless family stories.
Share yours! 👉 www.wikitree.com/g2g/1971722
#GreatLakes #CollaborativeGenealogy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8n...
From Ontario to Ohio, Minnesota to Michigan—the Great Lakes region holds countless family stories.
Share yours! 👉 www.wikitree.com/g2g/1971722
#GreatLakes #CollaborativeGenealogy
❓#QuestionOfTheWeek Do you have ancestors with roots around the Great Lakes? 🗺️
👉 https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1971722
The Great Lakes region spans eight U.S. states and Ontario, Canada—a crossroads of Indigenous nations, French explorers, British loyalists, and waves of…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The Great Lakes area is one of my main areas of focus - and where my family tree has been concentrated for hundreds of years now (primarily in Michigan, but also Ontario, Quebec, Ohio, Indiana, and of course Wisconsin where I live now). How about you all?
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For a few years in the early-20th century, if you wanted to drive a car in Prince Edward Island, you were out of luck.
The vehicles made people scared to go to the markets and churches. So...the province banned them completely.
This is the story of the PEI car ban.
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The vehicles made people scared to go to the markets and churches. So...the province banned them completely.
This is the story of the PEI car ban.
🧵 1/9
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
For a few years in the early-20th century, if you wanted to drive a car in Prince Edward Island, you were out of luck.
The vehicles made people scared to go to the markets and churches. So...the province banned them completely.
This is the story of the PEI car ban.
🧵 1/9
The vehicles made people scared to go to the markets and churches. So...the province banned them completely.
This is the story of the PEI car ban.
🧵 1/9
I swear that I keep saying things like "I just have to get through [deadline, event, specific date, etc] and then things will calm down" and yet... things haven't calmed down all year.
Might be my fault for trying to do two careers at once, travel occasionally, and have a regular life. Sigh.
Might be my fault for trying to do two careers at once, travel occasionally, and have a regular life. Sigh.
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I swear that I keep saying things like "I just have to get through [deadline, event, specific date, etc] and then things will calm down" and yet... things haven't calmed down all year.
Might be my fault for trying to do two careers at once, travel occasionally, and have a regular life. Sigh.
Might be my fault for trying to do two careers at once, travel occasionally, and have a regular life. Sigh.
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It’s important not to get caught up in pastoral fantasies that before various technologies we didn’t have many of the same struggles concerning power and equality, but it’s likewise essential to recognize that industrial “progress” involved an era of machines ripping off the hands of child workers.
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It’s important not to get caught up in pastoral fantasies that before various technologies we didn’t have many of the same struggles concerning power and equality, but it’s likewise essential to recognize that industrial “progress” involved an era of machines ripping off the hands of child workers.
I have a talk this Saturday with the Irish Genealogical Society International - Irish Migrations to Canada! It's a topic near and dear to my heart, given that all of my Irish ancestors who came to North America settled in Canada! If you're interested: www.irishgenealogical.org/eventListing...
Irish Genealogical Society International - Activities
The Irish Genealogical Society International is dedicated to helping you discover your Irish heritage and ancestry. Visit us for assistance with your family history.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I have a talk this Saturday with the Irish Genealogical Society International - Irish Migrations to Canada! It's a topic near and dear to my heart, given that all of my Irish ancestors who came to North America settled in Canada! If you're interested: www.irishgenealogical.org/eventListing...
Headed to Salt Lake City to visit the FamilySearch library with a genealogy group this fall. I've already started a list of materials I want to see. Any other tips or tricks from the #genealogists out there?
July 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Headed to Salt Lake City to visit the FamilySearch library with a genealogy group this fall. I've already started a list of materials I want to see. Any other tips or tricks from the #genealogists out there?
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Historians: this is a worrying development. Historians use the Hansard to analyze what was said in parliamentary discussions. If the Hansard is subject to editing out things that are politically unacceptable at the time, we (and future historians) have a problem.
Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it.
This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record.
This is not how a democracy behaves.
We will not be silenced.
This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record.
This is not how a democracy behaves.
We will not be silenced.
July 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Historians: this is a worrying development. Historians use the Hansard to analyze what was said in parliamentary discussions. If the Hansard is subject to editing out things that are politically unacceptable at the time, we (and future historians) have a problem.
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I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵
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With all the media coverage today of @virtualtreasury.bsky.social releases, it might be a good time to watch my talk about it from #Rootstech this year.
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech... #IrishGenealogy #GenHour #AncestryHour
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech... #IrishGenealogy #GenHour #AncestryHour
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June 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
With all the media coverage today of @virtualtreasury.bsky.social releases, it might be a good time to watch my talk about it from #Rootstech this year.
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech... #IrishGenealogy #GenHour #AncestryHour
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech... #IrishGenealogy #GenHour #AncestryHour
For those of us #genealogists who do Irish research, this is exciting: share.google/XEAClzi6akUb...
Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years
Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion
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June 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
For those of us #genealogists who do Irish research, this is exciting: share.google/XEAClzi6akUb...
Starting my first institute today with virtual GRIP's course Beyond Digging Deeper: Sources, Methods, and Practices. Very excited for an intensive week of learning!
June 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Starting my first institute today with virtual GRIP's course Beyond Digging Deeper: Sources, Methods, and Practices. Very excited for an intensive week of learning!
I thought this article was such a fascinating link of anti-DEI efforts, genealogy, and academia. I thought it was interesting as a discussion of how descendants of enslaved people feel when they learn of their ancestors. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
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June 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I thought this article was such a fascinating link of anti-DEI efforts, genealogy, and academia. I thought it was interesting as a discussion of how descendants of enslaved people feel when they learn of their ancestors. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...
I'm pretty anti-AI, although I'm seeing some societies and genealogists use it in interesting ways. I always feel like such a curmudgeon about it, but as someone who values both creativity and our planet, AI is in direct conflict with those things. Curious how others in genealogy feel about it?
June 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I'm pretty anti-AI, although I'm seeing some societies and genealogists use it in interesting ways. I always feel like such a curmudgeon about it, but as someone who values both creativity and our planet, AI is in direct conflict with those things. Curious how others in genealogy feel about it?
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The legacies of 68 million women, including your ancestors, could go unrecognised in history, with census records labelling them as ‘unoccupied’. But what does this mean for the women in your family?
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Forgotten voices – the contributions of 68 million women are unrecognised in historical records | Blog
The legacies of 68 million women, including your ancestors, could go unrecognised in history, with census records labelling them as ‘unoccupied’.
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June 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The legacies of 68 million women, including your ancestors, could go unrecognised in history, with census records labelling them as ‘unoccupied’. But what does this mean for the women in your family?
Delve deeper ⬇️
Delve deeper ⬇️
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This 🧵 highlights the importance of family history. Remembering our own family’s struggles helps us understand the challenges people face today. My first American ancestors arrived as refugees fleeing famine in 1847. How were they any different from many current immigrants? #genealogy
Really can’t stress the need for 1) More reporting on how horrendously difficult it is to legally come to the United States if you’re not wealthy or highly skilled 2) A greater understanding that immigration is *painful.* Most people won’t leave their homes unless they’re completely out of options.
Here's the menswear guy's post on being undocumented.
June 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This 🧵 highlights the importance of family history. Remembering our own family’s struggles helps us understand the challenges people face today. My first American ancestors arrived as refugees fleeing famine in 1847. How were they any different from many current immigrants? #genealogy
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Step 1: Read this Vanity Fair piece.
Step 2: Buy @greenwell.bsky.social's book, which is out tomorrow: silverunicornbooks.com/item/Vus7kAU...
Step 3: Probably get a punching bag or something, because this book is going to make you justifiably angry.
Step 2: Buy @greenwell.bsky.social's book, which is out tomorrow: silverunicornbooks.com/item/Vus7kAU...
Step 3: Probably get a punching bag or something, because this book is going to make you justifiably angry.
June 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Step 1: Read this Vanity Fair piece.
Step 2: Buy @greenwell.bsky.social's book, which is out tomorrow: silverunicornbooks.com/item/Vus7kAU...
Step 3: Probably get a punching bag or something, because this book is going to make you justifiably angry.
Step 2: Buy @greenwell.bsky.social's book, which is out tomorrow: silverunicornbooks.com/item/Vus7kAU...
Step 3: Probably get a punching bag or something, because this book is going to make you justifiably angry.
Going to be doing my first genealogy talk later this year. I've presented many times in my other professional life, but I'm curious if the #genealogy pros here have any tips or things they learned from their early presentations?
June 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Going to be doing my first genealogy talk later this year. I've presented many times in my other professional life, but I'm curious if the #genealogy pros here have any tips or things they learned from their early presentations?
Love this kind of project - hope folks who might be able to participate are aware of it!
Tulsa DNA Project | Tulsa Identification Project | Intermountain Forensics
Intermountain Forensics is honored to assist the City of Tulsa in identifying victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. A number of massacre victims were buried in unmarked graves. As part of an import...
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May 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Love this kind of project - hope folks who might be able to participate are aware of it!
This is me trying to force some accountability for my to-do list for today:
1. Transfer my photography files to a backup harddrive and make folders online only in Dropbox to save my overloaded laptop HD.
2. Gather the key docs I need for my #genealogy class assignment and get my file set up
1. Transfer my photography files to a backup harddrive and make folders online only in Dropbox to save my overloaded laptop HD.
2. Gather the key docs I need for my #genealogy class assignment and get my file set up
March 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is me trying to force some accountability for my to-do list for today:
1. Transfer my photography files to a backup harddrive and make folders online only in Dropbox to save my overloaded laptop HD.
2. Gather the key docs I need for my #genealogy class assignment and get my file set up
1. Transfer my photography files to a backup harddrive and make folders online only in Dropbox to save my overloaded laptop HD.
2. Gather the key docs I need for my #genealogy class assignment and get my file set up
I have nothing to do this weekend in terms of commitments so my to do list has a lot of research and writing on it! (Plus finally getting started on my website design) What about you all? Any fun #genealogy plans?
March 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I have nothing to do this weekend in terms of commitments so my to do list has a lot of research and writing on it! (Plus finally getting started on my website design) What about you all? Any fun #genealogy plans?
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There’s a lot of bad info and misleading commentary out there, so here’s one view shared by many genealogists.
Also, while deleting your 23andMe data is a personal choice, in my opinion, the sensitive info people share on social media is much more valuable to bad actors.
reason.com/2025/03/26/w...
Also, while deleting your 23andMe data is a personal choice, in my opinion, the sensitive info people share on social media is much more valuable to bad actors.
reason.com/2025/03/26/w...
Why I'm not deleting my 23andMe genetic data
Various corners of the media and internet are hyperventilating over the alleged genetic privacy implications of the imminent Chapter 11 bankruptcy of the
reason.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There’s a lot of bad info and misleading commentary out there, so here’s one view shared by many genealogists.
Also, while deleting your 23andMe data is a personal choice, in my opinion, the sensitive info people share on social media is much more valuable to bad actors.
reason.com/2025/03/26/w...
Also, while deleting your 23andMe data is a personal choice, in my opinion, the sensitive info people share on social media is much more valuable to bad actors.
reason.com/2025/03/26/w...
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A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.”
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
March 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.”
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.