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New fillable PDF alert! Our 1870 census tracker is now expanded to two pages, including some very cool features that can help genealogy fans track families who were represented in this census. Here are the 7 reasons we created the new fillable PDF 🧵⤵️

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At the most recent NERGC I interviewed Bob Velke of Gopher Records, explaining how he finds Civil War records for his clients. Fun fact: Bob is also the software developer behind The Master Genealogist, known fondly by its fans as TMG. youtu.be/sSlqzAkHh_U

Just posted the monthly update for our genealogy subscription price tracker. No change on any of the major services except for @MyHeritage has a small drop for DNA kits on its own site, and Amazon US is completely sold out. easygenie.org/pages/genealog…

Yesterday's newsletter about priceless family letters and photos almost going out with the trash really struck a chord with readers. I've posted it to the blog today. easygenie.org/blogs/news/an-… #genealogy

In 1908, if your ancestors lived in rural areas they likely had limited access to opticians. That is, unless they got a copy of the Sears catalog. youtu.be/UbrVAexJnxc

A few years back, I wrote up @soraofficialapp in the context of AI-generated "historical footage" providing insights into our ancestors' lives. While Sora is gone, the issues surrounding flawed data and flawed assumptions remain. easygenie.org/blogs/news/ope… #sora

This @AncestorExperts post, when we shared it in the weekly EasyGenie newsletter, was one of our most popular shared article blurbs ever. It touched on important themes related to US history and genealogy, from family legends to native land rights.

To learn more or to purchase the expanded 1870 federal census family tracker PDF, check out our download page: easygenie.org/products/genea…

New video showing how to use the 1870 census family tracker, from adding text to cropping and embedding an image of the census: youtu.be/hCEVmb-B7NY #genealogy

New fillable PDF alert! Our 1870 census tracker is now expanded to two pages, including some very cool features that can help genealogy fans track families who were represented in this census. Here are the 7 reasons we created the new fillable PDF 🧵⤵️

@bgcts @scratchyjohnson If the research is confirmed this would be an amazing finding relating to early New England tribal encounters with the Pilgrims. cc @AncestorExperts

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion. Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales. We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary. So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it. Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me. So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter. It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable. This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive. This is Cultural Debris. x.com/i/status/20349… cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

A team of researchers in Romania has discovered over 200 books and manuscripts in a church in Mediaș. It includes dozens of early printed works and manuscript fragments dating back to as early as the 9th century. medievalists.net/2022/09/mediev…

This is one of the best genealogy blog posts I have read in a long time. It touches upon native land rights, family lore, and the power of shoe leather research to find the truth. Thank you @AncestorExperts and author Mary Stevens Hunt. vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/investigating-…