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Graveyard Snoop

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Deep-dive research into the people under the headstones. Interested in hidden & obscured histories. #genealogyforall #inclusivegenealogy 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Cheryl Ziegler @bibliographix1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In an under the radar post, NARA revealed they will start the process to move records on October 13. We're still working to stop this! blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/02/c...
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Can Chicago's National Archives Be Saved? Lawmakers Fight 'Ill-Conceived' Closure
Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García and Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are among those calling on the National Archives and Records Administration to reverse its decision to close the South Side center an...
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pickypants Corner: Overlapped a #Chicago walking tour, just as the host was telling his clients about the Marshall Field's clock. "See how it has four I's instead of IV? Someone made a mistake." First off, they're not I's. They are ones. /1
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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today SABR launched an incredible new book and companion website on Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945. It’s the story of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were removed from their homes after Pearl Harbor and forced to live at remote incarceration camps: sabr.org/baseball-at-...
Cover image for SABR’s “Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945,” edited by Russ Speiller and James Forr.
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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/2026/... Hey, y'all: Chicago fans and Algren fans. In Chicago: City on the Make, Algren refers obliquely to a documentary about the city that was suppressed by Richard J. Daley's minions. That film, not seen in Chicago in 60 years, will be screened at NU.
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Listening to Chicago: Denis Mitchell and Studs Terkel: Block Museum - Northwestern University
Denis Mitchell’s controversial Chicago documentary, unseen here since 1966, screens with a rare 1975 film profile of Studs Terkel in a program about listening to the voice of the city.
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now I wanna go. Chicago Trib, Sept 29, 1940. #history
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StoneScrubber @stonescrubber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#genealogy #familyhistory
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hesitantly Googling "masking bar clown college" because at some point I know @waxtadpole.bsky.social will ask me about it. 🫣
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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m in the Trib! www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/23/h...
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Column: A Chicago historian brings us more discoveries about Graceland Cemetery
Adam Selzer’s “Graceland Cemetery Vol. 2″ returns to the landmark Chicago cemetery to uncover more secrets about those who are memorialized there.
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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here are the community areas that currently have no landmarks. If you know of a building in one of these areas that might be landmark-worthy, think about submitting it to the Commission on Chicago Landmarks for consideration. How can there be nothing from Chatham?
List of Chicago Community Areas that currently have no landmarks: Albany Park
Ashburn
Avalon Park
Belmont Cragin
Brighton Park
Burnside
Calumet Heights
Chatham
Clearing
Dunning
Fuller Park
Gage Park
Garfield Ridge
Hegewisch
Hermosa
Jefferson Park
Montclare
Mount Greenwood
O'Hare
Riverdale
Washington Heights
West Elsdon
West Lawn
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reposting this because I was thinking about the game and checked the KS and fulfillment for the game is happening just now. Something the tabletop nerds out there could be interested in is all.
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Amy C @thisnicelady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“It’s just hilarious how this thing that Black American kids start saying in cities like New York and Chicago is now copyrighted by folks across the pond, and then they’re telling Black folks who created the term that they can’t include the term”
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Who Owns The Word 'Dope'? Dilla Fighting $20K Legal Battle Over Slogan
A year after urban historian Shermann "Dilla" Thomas applied to trademark his slogan "Everything Dope About America Comes From Chicago," Swedish ski apparel brand Dope Snow is claiming his brand infri...
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
During renovations of the Halifax Minster's unique Jacobean box pews, these metal nameplates which originally designated private seat ownership for prominent local families between the 17th and 19th centuries were carefully removed. The nameplates were preserved and are
Ancient pew name plates in Halifax Minster.  The oldest dates from 1615. There are still fine examples of Jacobean Box pews to be seen in the Minster today. Image Scrappy Annie CC BY-NC 2.0
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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hot dog stand, Dearborn Street near Randolph Street, Chicago (ca. 1960s) Stephen Deutch, Chicago History Museum
Night time view of illuminated fast food take out restaurant with sign over the door "The Saucee Weenie" and signs advertising Pancho 25 cents and ...nchero 19 cents. A blonde woman in high heels is seen standing at the counter.
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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Graceland Cemetery Vol 2: More Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets is out today, both in paperback and ebook. Dozens of stories and over 100 illustrations! Amaz: amzn.to/4qxw13q BN: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/graceland-... To celebrate I made this “influencer” video. Enjoy, zombiepops!
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Adding: I wrote about Edith in the early days of my blog. She had quite a life. The FBI search didn't turn up anything tho. graveyardsnoop.com/2019/06/30/u... #genealogy
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Unearthed: Aunt Edith’s First Act
Drama teacher, world traveler, film actress, and single woman on the go.
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Rabbit holes: I was doing research on my gt aunt Edith, who graduated from Northwestern in 1917. I was surprised to learn she got a Bach. of Science. But at the top of the commencement program page is this lady. And who might that be?
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Learning abt the history of deaf culture & 1920s treatments. Today, it's the fad of the "flying cure." The deaf were taken up in plane flights, which would go up high and then dive. They thought the pressure shift would "cure" deafness. It wasn't great. Battle Creek Moon-Journal; July 26, 1930
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New blog post over at GraveyardSnoop.com. I've spent much of the summer researching and writing about my great grandpa Zvonimir, and I'm so happy I finally get to tell you all about him. graveyardsnoop.com/2026/09/04/1... #genealogy #history
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I understand family photo day is stressful on everyone, but damn. From the family archive.
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New true crime podcast just dropped. The Day Book; Jan 07, 1915
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Burning up my vacation by going down rabbit holes. Today: Digging into Palmer Raids in the Calumet region, summer and fall 1919. I'm hoping to understand the atmosphere my socialist immigrant relatives experienced. OTOH, not that hard to imagine after all. Fuck ICE. #reds #history
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
autumn is fast approaching which means it's time for pannage: the ancient commoner's right of taking your pigs to the forest to feast on fallen acorns, chestnuts, and beechmast
four pigs underneath a blossoming tree
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
ICE continues to be active in Chicago. Community members in Little Village recorded ICE in the area of 26th & Drake this morning, and photos shared online show a masked fed chasing someone down an alley off Leland and Ashland in Ravenswood. Reports of activity in Bronzeville, Bridgeport, Hermosa.
ICE agent walking down Drake toward 26th Street in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Source: Baltazar Enriquez SanchezPhoto shared online anonymously of a masked fed chasing someone down an alley off Leland and Ashland in Ravenswood. 8/31 post by rapid response group Hijos De Migrantes showing agents active in Bridgeport, Ravenswood, Hermosa, Bronzeville and Little Village this morning
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I never heard it put that way, but I do like it. NY Herald Dec 5, 1912. #chicago
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One thing I know as a resident of the great city of Chicago (home of Sox Park, Marshall Field’s, and the Sears Tower) is no one can make you call anything anything
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Breaking off my research to ask my cats out loud, "But what if this isn't the RIGHT Mirko Popovich?" And then realizing this isn't how most people spend their vacation time. #genealogy
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is a new one. From a relative's WWI draft card. #history
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The USPS can't decide which paychecks to deliver and which to toss. The USPS can't decide which tax returns to deliver and which to toss. The USPS can't decide which Christmas cards to deliver and which to toss. And the USPS can't decide which ballots to deliver and which to toss.
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Family Tree Magazine @familytreemag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m begging everyone currently alive to tell at least one other human being where you were born and what your mother’s maiden name is. Apparently this is a lot to ask. #Genealogy
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As we roll into one of our last #Chicago summer weekends, please enjoy this photo from the family archives. A long-ago group also enjoying good weather, probably somewhere between Hegewisch and Gary. The seated woman at far left is my gt-gma Rose, with her son Ben next to her.
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hello #GenHour! This week I continued to research my Croatian great-grandfather. I managed to find his WWI draft card; write a blog post about it; and build a map of Illinois/Indiana addresses where he and his siblings lived. Unusually productive for me! graveyardsnoop.com/2026/08/17/a... #genealogy
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Absolutely entranced with this industrial map of Calumet/Hammond/Hegewisch and assorted areas. I don't care how many brand managers you hire--you'll never outdo company names like Kingly Shirt Co. and Unexcelled Manufacturing. #chicago #history #oldmaps images.indianahistory.org/digital/coll...
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Industrial map of the Calumet Region of Indiana & Illinois
1 map ; 87 x 56 cm., on sheet 89 x 59 cm.
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New short blog post about the value of researching the people around your ancestors. graveyardsnoop.com/2026/08/17/a... #genealogy
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A Shorter Family Tree, but a Greener One
Using other peoples’ facts to build a deeper genealogy picture of your own family.
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"...inseparable companions for years..." I mean, maybe they were just friends. But. Chicago Trib; March 5 1919 #gayhistory
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I know Hearst did a great many wrong things, but his newspapers' page layouts are still a joy. Boston American; March 3, 1906 #newspapers #history
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm just a girl, standing in front of the Library of Congress' Sanborn maps collection, begging it to stop pooping out on me every third search. #genealogy
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Researching my ancestors' time in the S. Chicago enclave of Hegewisch. Photo from WWI. The sign reads "Un-Americans are Hun-Americans." #history
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists
One of those 'STOP DOING X' memes, ripping into archaeology. It has images of soil stratum, a trowel, and a flint shard. The text mocks archaeologists for digging for pottery sherds and saying everything has a 'ritual purpose'.
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Oh good--a sensitive treatise on the subject of immigration. I'm sure this won't be cringey. Detroit Free Press, May 20, 1906.
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And if I'm reading this right, "bound to" = released to the custody of. So she was released to the husband who had deserted her, and who tried to pay for her to go back to Russia. There is a whole novel in here.
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Stumbled across the most astonishing set of records on FamSrch yesterday. They're just called "United States. Migration Records 1893-1909" but what they contain is testimony--the actual Q&A people gave when they were detained at immigration and had to justify being let into the US. #genealogy /1
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Song of the week as I continue to search for my great-great grandmother Cecelia in the 1910 census. You're breakin my heart. You're shakin my confidence daily. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_Q... #genealogy
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Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
YouTube video by kylecrazyford
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
👀 #history
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As someone who is desperate for photos from a particular family branch, hell yes you can sell them to me. I already have ebay searches set up in their names. #genealogy nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Strange Business of Selling People Their Own Family’s Lost Photos
This online niche sometimes feels like a scam. Is it?
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Who needs a thesis? Shifting the urban landscape from multi-use indust + housing, to just housing + light commercial effectively makes us less like a city & more like the suburbs that the coming residents of that space are prob trying to eschew in the 1st place. chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/...
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Lake View's former Torstenson Glass building will be demolished, replaced by luxury apartments
A pair of Chicago real estate companies will transform the former manufacturing site into 99 luxury apartments.
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Wonderful to read this! I love the Belle Shore, a little jewel box of a building. And how great to know there's an actual Belle behind the name! #chicago
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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My favorite #genealogy tip--always search by address--came through for me again today. After finding my great-great-aunt Fanika's address in the 1910 census, I used it to find this newspaper article, about a thwarted burglary. She would have been one of the servants inside. NY Herald, Dec 21 1911./1
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Michael Van Vleet (he/him) @signalstation.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
One of the ways I'm processing the experience of losing my spouse unexpectedly is writing down things that helped. Here are three things you can do if someone you know is having the worst time of their life: www.signalstation.com/so-someone-y...
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So Someone You Know Is Having the Worst Time of Their Life… – signalstation
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A digitally stimulated black and white relief print on a toned paper background. In a generally circular shape is the figure of a man in overalls tattered at the legs wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat swinging a scythe toward a stand of tall grass to the right while behind him the landscape is plowed furrows of hilly farmland under swirling sky. His head breaks above the circular composition and is mostly in silhouette against a blazing sun with wavy rays that fill the top of the frame. The circle shape on the bottom is defined by the scythe blade and on the left behind the blade as if following the swing is lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I have been making my dumb life from drawing my little guys and stuff for more than 15 years now and I would like to continue to and you can help... Original screen prints, paintings, etc: octophant.us/buy Art prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin... Shirts & merch: octophant.threadless.com
A screen print featuring head shots of 8 soviet dogs which were sent to orbit from 1957 to 1966, all surrounding the original canine cosmonaut Laika. A red star and banner at the top reads 'Soviet Space Dogs' next to illustrations of two different orbital capsules used in the program. All text is in Russian.An oil painting of a red human skull with a bright orange outline against a collage of '80s Japanese wrestling magazine pages. Picture of wrestlers, wrestling, and a lot of Japanese text, presumably about wrestling.A digital illustration of a spectral owl, with cephalopod arms where its legs would have been. The owl has two arrows embedded in its ghostly body. There is a stylized human skull tied to the top of its head which also has an arrow in it. Night sky, a bare tree, clouds, and a full moon are the background.A black t-shirt with an image of a Black Crowned Night Heron: a medium-sized bird with a whitish chest/belly, dark blue-black wing tops and crown, a black spearlike bill, red eyes, and proportionally long yellow legs with long toes, slightly webbed standing on a stylized rock, with a green rushing river and blue sky behind. An actual bejeweled black crown is suspended over the bird's head and a golden beam of light is coming from within it down onto the regal heron. All this is within an elaborate frame rendered to look like patinated wrought iron. As part of the frame, arcing over the bird's head on either side of the crown it reads BLACK CROWNED, and below the birds feet are the words NIGHT HERON.
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