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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Of those people have heard of, my vote is Kyiv, Ukraine. (And use that spelling the Russian one)

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cool. Something on the east side

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The year would have been 1930. I believe it was a realty firm or an investor firm of some sort.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Looking for which person/company is associated with an old phone exchange from Los Angeles County. Does anyone have suggestions on finding the business associated with MO 18295?

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I finished it. Turned it on 2x speed made it more bearable. lol

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🤭 he thinks he's a leftist.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Now to finish before I have to get in the car again. Don't need to drive annoyed. 😅

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

And don't get me started on his centrist views about violent protest. There comes a point when peaceful protests under apartheid don't work. Even MLK Jr realized at the end that peaceful protests weren't the be all end all.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Finally getting to this episode. This one has frustrated me the most from this interview. He does so much talking about nothing. He is more steeped in Zionism than he realizes.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hey #genealogy and #history community. Is there anyone who might be able to go to the California state archives for a some volunteers at an abandoned cemetery in the state? I really need to see what info a court case has, but we don't have $450 to pay for the 1800 pages. 🙏

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Through tree leaves is always my favorite way to view an eclipse.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am still looking for someone to help me out by going to the state archives in Sacramento.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Rude. I feel so called out. LOL

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Practically all the records from the early years of Lincoln were lost because of the poor management of Jules Roth. He is the man who ran Hollywood Cemetery into the ground, too. The friends and family of Lincoln deserve to have this sacred space honored and upkept. Include its history.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I can talk to the person before they go to give them the information I have now to help them quickly go through those 1800 pages. We are looking for names and dates and possibly any maps. Large portions of those papers will be legalese that won't matter to the research we are doing.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sacramento Archive help needed! I volunteer at Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery in Carson, CA. There are records at the state archives in Sacramento that we need to see. 1800 pages/$450. Money we do not have. I am looking for someone to go to the archives in Sacramento to take pictures. #genealogy

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I am volunteering at Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery in Carson, CA. It was abandoned by the owner because of ill health. We are starting the process of digitizing the grave cards. We are at 455 people indexed so far. That is out of 20 acres. We've got a ways to go. #genealogy #BlackGravesMatter

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Michael Leshing is even more interesting than you thought. I found out last week that he was one of the founders of Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery in Carson (formerly Compton) a cemetery created to be non restrictive so African Americans could be buried there freely.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

And she's back. Still enough time to work.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I had plans to do research before leaving to meet some clients. But FamilySearch is down so my plans are changed. It feels like I need to have a list of things I can work on when one site is down. 😁

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I did see on the Find a Grave forums that you have to wait for the app to triangulate your position and it can take awhile sometimes. I'll at least try it myself the next time I am there. We will start "mowing the rows" or whatever it is they call it. 😁 It's gonna take a long time. 😅

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Here is the cemetery (left side of the street on the map). You can see some people added GPS and a few graves are outside of the cemetery.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I should see what OS maps are available. So much to learn.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

20 acres is a lot of ground to cover. The graves are tightly packed, too. And we need to get all the stones uncovered before taking the aerial pictures. The cemetery was abandoned so volunteers are the ones who keep it up so we would need a day when something like 10K plus stones are fully uncovered

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Something more accurate than a cell phone is better than just using a cell phone. 😁 But yeah, definitely not spending anywhere near that much for the better ones.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

And to add to that, the sections of the cemetery are not well marked and there are at least 25 graves per section. So 3 meters/~20 feet difference is a lot of distance to try to narrow down where a grave is.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There is bad reception in the area. Otherwise I might trust the phone.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Does anyone have a GPS device recommendation? I am volunteering at a cemetery and we want to remap the cemetery. We are able to use a cite called Find a Grave for the mapping, but phone GPS signals are not the best. Any recommendations?

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

They assume because mainstream media isn't showing them or it isn't in their algorithm that it isn't happening. 🙄

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Went to the county today do to some research on the cemetery I volunteer at. We didn't find what we were hoping to in the real estate records, but they were awesome to point us towards the assessors office to better narrow down ownership over the years. #oneplacestudy

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Auntie Day is July 26 (which is also my birthday). Please do not wish me a Happy Mother's Day. 😂

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is horrifying. Please give your baby this shot. The science for decades back it up. 😢

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

That made me laugh a lot. And I do love a good sausage. 😂

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I hope you don't mind me asking, but in one sentence (or less), what is chapter 5 about? I'm trying to decipher what that chapter is about.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

There were antiquarians "scientist" who studied people in cities and came to the same conclusion. The phrenology stuff and all the race things come into play, too. One story in the States - a woman was sterilized because her mother had her out of wedlock so the state thought she would be the same.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Definitely something up with the site today.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

And I hate it. Why is this the European/American default? These people who harmed humanity so much are never held accountable. It happened after the Civil War, WWII, etc. And no one is truly held accountable. (Nuremburg and Reconstruction did next to nothing).

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

An audio version of one of my #oneplacestudy blog posts.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Found the person I was looking for. Having the correct surname helped to narrow it down in the newspaper.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

@drkarencummings.bsky.social What is chapter 5 of your book about? The title of the chapter interests me.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

hey #genealogy. I have another question. Can you help me figure out what this spelling is. It was later called Centreville, Union Co, PA. I know it was just SW of a place now called Penns Creek, near Jack's Mountain. Google searches are so much harder now that they've changed their algorithm.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Hey #genealogy friends. Is there a way to see who was a Justice of the Peace for a county back in the 1850s? It is Union Co, PA.

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

15 years have passed since you left us. March 11 will have been your 73rd birthday. You are starting to feel like another lifetime ago. But my life is always tethered to yours, mom. "She taught me how to be strong and say goodbye And that love is forever"

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Colleen @free2l.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

We've had it on the last two days. I was hoping for more time without it. 😭

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