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Doll-sized coffins "This wasn’t seen as morbid or disturbing. To the Victorians, death and grief were very much facts of life, and playtime was the chance to do a practice run before children endured the real thing." @MariteHart @SmithsonianMag smithsonianmag.com/history/how-po…

TheGenealogist has announced the launch of a collection of fully searchable copies of The Times, with 3,129 editions of the newspaper from the 1870s onwards available to researchers family-tree.co.uk/useful-genealo… #familyhistory

Stacks of documents to scan not included!

This is *why* we do what we do.

All of them. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cre…

Nov 1, 6pm: Maine State Historian Earle Shettleworth, Jr., will present a compelling talk on five women artists who contributed significantly to Portland's 19th-century cultural life. FMI/register free on Zoom tinyurl.com/5wde99b9. Buy the book mainehistorystore.com/acofpoar.html

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@sundowniest Gotta love all that information in one place, in her own hand, and with personal detail that often gets left out of formulaic data!

Good to the last drop.

If you are an expert local historian, we’re looking forward to hearing from you. Likewise if you’ve never given local history a go but you’re inspired to get started, we’d love to see what you find. #20sStreets 📸: Ford Street East, Southport; ref. COPY 1/497

Maine Voices: A boomerang reconsiders what ‘from here’ means - Gift economies occur within stable clans and exchange economies characterize relationships among transient people. @CarleneByron @PresHerald #Genealogy pressherald.com/2022/10/15/mai…

In October 1836, Marshall declared his intention to marry Sarah Breck (daughter of Cap. Jos. Breck) of Littleton, Mass. On Oct 25, the two were united by William H White. Sometime between graduating and marrying, Marshall had moved from Waltham to #RichmondMaine. #OnePlaceStudy

Sometimes a burial register can give great information. Here is the burial in #Wylye, #Wiltshire of Thomas Small, the brother of my ancestor. He was buried on 5th May 1794 aged 60 years and 10 months. The names of both his parents are recorded. #familyhistory #genealogy #ancestry

TODAY IN #StarTrek HISTORY: September 30, 1991 A new story is written: Picard and Dathon, at El-Adrel. ("Darmok")

Although not all of our ancestors will have made a will, a surprising number of men and women did. Simon Wills shares his advice on how to locate these precious sources of family history. #familyhistory family-tree.co.uk/how-to-guides/…

@HEBTilbrook I think that might say Gentleman. Would that make sense? #AncestryHour

Evening #AncestryHour !! It has been an age; but it is exciting to be back and I am hoping you may be able to help me decipher my ggf's job in 1919 when he returned from Toronto to Dundee. His profession is the last one (after what I think is farmer). something man? Suggestions?

Twitter says that my third anniversary was a couple days ago. But today is the 80th anniversary of my grandparents, Chester White and Alice Wiggins. Twitter sent me a fancy graphic for the wrong event, I think. Happy anniversary, Grandfather & Grandmother! #MyTwitterAnniversary

Practicalities of a One-Name Study @PharosTutors course starts at the end of September and there is still time to sign up pharostutors.com/details.php?co… This the last time it will run until March 2023. #onlinelearning #genealogy #familyhistory #genealogy #europe Please RT 🧵1/5

Hilary Mantel about facts, history, and the past. RIP.