iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by @ancestory

Kirsty Hooper @booksonspain.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Just came across a new favourite census entry. Miss Josephine Regidor (daughter of a Philippines-born Spanish lawyer in London) responded to the 'occupation' question on the 1911 census with: "Mind my house & own business." I like her already :)

Photo shows a row of elegant London terraced houses to one side of the street, with a tree trunk foreground right and some green trees to the left.

1154

@ancestory @ancestory.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

If you had to pick one memory, just one, from your life to take with you into eternity, what would it be? A story about the 1959 Montreal St. Patrick's Day parade. Read on Substack here: open.substack.com/pub/ancestor...

1959 Montreal St Patrick's Day parade queen and her court

021

@ancestory @ancestory.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This was sent to me from the last working farm in Durham, CT. In 2025, the state of CT reassessed taxable land values that altered farmland assessments. Farmland valuations & tax liabilities have doubled, even quadrupled. If you want farming to survive in CT, please sign. www.savectland.org

savectland.org

My Site

Disclaimer This petition is submitted by Fields of Support Foundation , a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) charitable organization formed during the response to the Hurricane Helene disaster in North Carolina......

000

@ancestory @ancestory.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social Caught your aside about Ralph Nader in the last ep. Highly recommend Nader’s Museum of Torts in Winsted CT. It showcases consumer liability cases though history. Ralph created the exhibits. If you visit be sure to comment in the visitor book. Ralph reads it every Sunday.

010

@ancestory @ancestory.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Join us for a discussion about the uses of micro-history Thursday at 7 PM EDT. You can register at ProjectKin - it's free! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

substack.com

Lisa Maguire (@ancestory)

Join me with @Barbara at Projectkin for the next ProjectKin Live when we discuss micro-history. Thursday at 7 PM EDT.

000

@ancestory @ancestory.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I will be talking with the incomparable Barbara Tien @projectkin.bsky.social on Thursday, August 7th at 7 EST about the uses of micro-history and how the tools and concepts of micro-history can enrich our family history writing. You can register here! tockify.com/eventscalend...

tockify.com

010

Reposted by @ancestory

@ancestory @ancestory.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

When I first got interested in family history as a teenager, I was disappointed my ancestors weren’t remarkable. Now I am fascinated by ordinary lives. They offer the opportunity to do original historical research. The more ordinary your family, the more they may tell us something we didn’t know.

ancestory.substack.com

What is Micro-history?

Asking large questions in small places

121

@ancestory @ancestory.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

ancestory.substack.com

What is Micro-history?

Asking large questions in small places

121

@ancestory @ancestory.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"Sometimes what people leave behind are not loud monuments, sometimes they are tiny quiet marks… sometimes the past is waiting to be found in the smallest details.” Great conversation with J.D. Murgolo about silverware, memory, and what we can discover about our families in objects left behind.

open.substack.com

Lisas Spoons

Listen now | What if the only evidence of someone’s life was a set of engraved silver spoons?

000

@ancestory @ancestory.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

In 1688 the Morin family were expelled from their village of Beaubassin, Nova Scotia. They walked into the winter wilderness taking only what they could carry. Why this happened is the story of Beaubassin—a tale of village rebellion, a witch trial, and forbidden love. First installment linked here.

open.substack.com

Beaubassin 1671: Part 1 - The Sluice Gate

Sculptors of the Great Marsh

000

Reposted by @ancestory

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025

The broadcast journalist Gayle King and the singer Katy Perry were set to make a brief trip into space on Monday on a flight operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. It would be the first time an all-female crew has been to space since 1963. Here's the latest.

nytimes.com

Blue Origin Flight Will Take 6 Women, Including Gayle King and Katy Perry, to Space

The women were set to travel on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, as part of the first all-female space crew in more than 60 years.

697719

@ancestory @ancestory.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Few people know that Quebec City was once an Irish town. The story of the Byrnes --three generations of Irish stevedores, and the port and city that was their home.

substack.com

Diamond Harbor 1877: Lost Anchors

When Quebec City was Irish

000

@ancestory @ancestory.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

A story about growing up never really fitting in…and fleas. ancestory.Substack.com #irishincanada #montrealirish #ndgmontreal #timessquare #fleascircus

021