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@DigiRoots

Professional genealogist, #genealogy speaker in #NYC. Italian/Sicilian/NYC/NJ research. BU OL19, ProGen43, @GRIPitt + #deltiology. Other life: @michaelcassara

New York City Katılım Kasım 2010
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DigiRoots@DigiRoots·
Love being back in Albany for the New York State Family History Conference, from @nyfamilyhistory. This is my first in-person conference since @RootsTechConf 2020(!) and I'm thrilled to be giving two talks - here's a pic from today's! #NYSFHC
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I just looked up my #NYC apartment building in the #1950census and, to my delight, residents are enumerated including their *unit number* - a rarity in earlier censuses. I found the couple living in my apartment in 1950, and clearly I'll now be up all night researching them.
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DigiRoots@DigiRoots·
9 minutes in, and just found my first relatives in the #1950census. Workflow that is easiest for me right now is to use the @Ancestry district finder (which lets us search by address), and then browsing through the images by town (and then ED) on 1950census.archives.gov
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DigiRoots@DigiRoots·
So I saw this Facebook notification and wondered what combination of buttons I had possibly pressed during a late-night research binge. Then I realized it was just business as usual. :) #genealogy #dating
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Joe Espo@JWEsposito·
Explosion in LIC at ConEd. Saw a mushroom cloud of flames. #NYC
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DigiRoots@DigiRoots·
And sometimes you finish recording the webinar you've been prepping for weeks, and you feel really good about it! But then you open the file and realize you had started your PowerPoint but never shared your screen on Zoom. So... it's just a video of you talking and no slides. :-|
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Myko Clelland@DapperHistorian·
The cave paintings of Addaura, Sicily are at least 13,000 years old, but I can't get over the detail. So beautiful!
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Michael W. McCormick
Michael W. McCormick@EnduringLegacy·
Dear government orgs: Don't be stingy with giving genealogists access to records that are or should be legally open to the public. RTR may sue you. Save yourself the trouble and make your records available.
Reclaim The Records@ReclaimTheRecs

Missouri f'ed around and found out. 😎 (And a spoiler from the article: we recently got *more* years of Missouri birth index data for 1910-1920 and *more* birth+death index data for 2016-2020, and they're all going online soon, too...!) kcur.org/news/2021-04-1…

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DigiRoots@DigiRoots·
@geneapleau So glad you could tune in, Christine! I need to get caught up on my podcasts, as well - so many great ones these days!
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Christine McCloud 🌳
Christine McCloud 🌳@geneapleau·
@DigiRoots I’ve been behind in my podcast listening, but I just heard your interview on The Genealogy Connection tonight! Loved the story about your great-grandfather’s grave!
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DigiRoots@DigiRoots·
@miyajensen Sicily. Was supposed to take an extended research trip there last year (would have been my third time doing research in my family's village - but the on-site church records are amazing and go back to the 16th Century) - but with the shutdown it hasn't been possible.
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The Polynesian Genealogist (she/her)
Have you ever been homesick for an ancestral homeland? Lately, I’ve felt a longing for Japan, a homeland I had the privilege of living in a few years ago. It’s this ache that I can’t seem to shake, you know?
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Genealogy Jude@GenealogyJude·
Still fear of being buried alive in 20th century. Will of relative - 1977: “I direct my executors to call in an independent medical man to examine my body & by opening an artery or otherwise definitely to ascertain that I am dead & not merely in a state resembling that of death”!
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