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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

@cbgenealogy.ie I see you use beehive. Are you liking it? I've signed up, but haven't used it yet because I still have wp. And, curious — do you find you get more readers with the newsletter w/ links to your blog or emailing the blog post individually?

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hey guys, check out these Irish #familyhistory tips and tricks podcast recommendations. Worth a read & listen!

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

@danielloftus.projectinfant.ie I Enjoyed your Rootstech presentations #NotatRootsTech. You provide great information, and I appreciate how down-to-earth you are. You don't assume that we understand what you're talking about.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This comment and the amount of likes says it all. Losing allies one country at a time. 😞

screenshot that says "Canadian PM Trudeau announces 25% retaliatory tariffs on some US goods in response to new Trump levies, escalating a global trade war."

Screenshot that says, "It’s crazy when our own people agree with Canada and want to make the lives of our citizens more difficult and I agree with them! Want to rid ourselves of this tyrannical loser. Thank you Canada for continuing to be our friends! We love you!" and it has 2.1K like and loves.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Protesters Display Upside-Down American Flag at Yosemite – This resonates across our country.

A group of frustrated Park Service workers displayed a flag measuring 30 feet by 50 feet. Some rappelled down the side of El Capitan, which rises more than 3,000 feet above the base of Yosemite Valley.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Good afternoon, #genealogy #genies. Does anyone happen to have the book, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Series 2? United States: L.O. Duvall, 1951? I am looking for the will listed on the attached image for George Everett and the information it has for him on pg 63.

The screenshot is of Everett, George, 62; Will, 14 index.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I think #GenHour is running a bit slow; I noticed around five things popped up at once. Anyway, I’ve decided to give WikiTree another try. I looked at it many years ago, and it seems to have improved since then. I appreciate the safeguards it offers compared to FamilySearch trees.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

ABC News reported Marco Rubio has been acting as head of the National Archives for weeks. This is news to everyone at the National Archives, including, apparently, the current head of NARA: www.404media.co/national-arc...

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National Archives Workers Unsure If Marco Rubio Has Secretly Been Their Boss for Weeks

The current Archivist of the United States held an all-hands this week in which she still seemed to be in charge, 404 Media has learned.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Just submitted ten FOIA requests! The employees of the VA must really be cursing RTR! 😀

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm absolutely loving this series! So glad @irinashapiro.bsky.social is still writing them as I'm only on book 4. After reading her other series, I found these.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A cautionary tale… (the word king was actually sultan in the original.)

A GIF that says, “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” -Turkish Proverb

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Remarkable that the Canadian Prime Minister has a better understanding of American interests than the US President.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Okay, #genealogy genies, quick question. There is nothing about it in the Preface of the book. The mention of George Everett as a "transportee." What does that mean? Google refers to someone "banished or sent to the American Colonies as a convict," but I'd like clarification, please.

A listing of Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, Vol. III showing "Everett, George (1656-1711) VA; m. Mary Taylor. Transportee."

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

FS Full Text=Incredibly fascinating. I ran across a 1704 land deed. The beautiful handwriting, the precise legal language, and carefully noted boundary trees and waterways paint such a vivid picture of Colonial American land ownership. Even spec. mining rights, "Royall Mines", excepted of course!

A screenshot of a snippet of the land deed and it's beautiful handwriting.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This was a very informative webinar. Check it out if you have colonial roots.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

@dlgenealogist.bsky.social Great webinar! Very informative. I love the joint efforts of American Ancestors, FamilySearch, and Legacy, among others.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#genealogy genies, would a land record from 1776 constitute as a secondary source to prove a marriage? It states, "to our honoured Mother late Dorcas Royce now Dorcas Loggan of sd Woodbury as her Dower or thirds in sd Real Estate for her use during her Natural Life."

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Did you know that the National Library of Ireland is on Bluesky? bsky.app/profile/nlir...

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

My 8th Great-Grandparents are from Slovenia Gottschee Poland Germany Holland France Ireland Scotland Province of New Hampshire Colony of Connecticut Colony of Virginia Massachusetts Bay Colony Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales The rest are unknown #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #FamilyTree

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

#genchat, Need to share my excitement. Gunn Library & Museum sent me a copy of a 2008 letter I found in their dig coll. In it, the writer mentions a story she heard re: the 16th-century Logans. I researched and found the story! A white woman wed a Cherokee Indian & they honeymooned at the homestead.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@andrewredfern.bsky.social , another great webinar! I love how you iterate, "Generate Options, Not Answers."

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is quite the obituary from the Blairsville Daily Courier Blairsville, Pennsylvania • Mon, Aug 5, 1895 Page 1. "He was honest and upright in the highest degree, possessed a rugged and sterling character and abhorred deceit, falsehood or dishonesty of any sort." #genealogy

An obit that says: Yes, I'll transcribe the obituary:

LIFE OF JOHN A. STITT.
One of the Early Citizens—A Veteran of the P. R. R.

One by one there pass away those that have gone in and out before us for many years. One by one there cross the river those whose faces and figures have been familiar since childhood. One by one there disappear those whose early life was spent in that period which antedates the railroad, the telegraph, the telephone and a thousand of the other inventions that are now so common.

The last one to obey this imperative call, a summons that cannot be set aside, was John A. Stitt. On Friday evening at nine o'clock his life on earth ended, and for him all trials, troubles and perplexities of earth were at an end.

John A. Stitt was born at Allegheny Town, as it was then called, on April 11, 1827. His parents were John and Martha Galbraith Stitt. The family removed to Blairsville in 1838 and shortly after that time the deceased went on the canal as a driver. When he became able to make a full hand he was promoted to captain of the Bingham line. In May, 1849, he was married to Miss Nancy B. Dixon, and continued boating on the canal until it was abandoned.

When traffic was started on what is now the West Penn road, he became the first fireman, hiring a locomotive for Engineer Watt Campbell. In a few years he was promoted to engineer and continued in that position until 1889, when he was forced to retire on account of ill health.

His railroading career was marked by the utmost faithfulness to the interests of his employers, a marked distance being the great railroad strike in 1887, when he remained entirely loyal to the company and rendered valuable service in assisting to pilot the main line trains over the West Penn division.

The writer was for a number of years closely associated with the deceased in railroad service and can testify most strongly to the fact that he was one of the most conscientious and painstaking employes on the division.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

One of my #genealogy bucket list items after retiring was to attend more webinars. Recently, I joined one titled "Information Overload?..." by Elizabeth Shown Mills & it inspired me to complete an Individual Research Report on my Logan immigrant. It took me a week, but it helped me identify gaps.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

#genealogy genies, this page is from R.R. Hinman’s book "...early Puritan settlers of the colony of Connecticut..." Is anyone familiar with it? If so, can you tell me if the men listed under Margaret Carr's listing would be related to her? They are not under a separate heading, so I am curious.

A copy of the text, "Genealogy of the Puritans." page 489. "CARR, Margaret, m. John Logan, at Marshfield, Mass., Jan. 7, 1723-4. Mr. George Carr, Jun., took the oath of allegiance and fidelity, before Tho's Bradbury, Capt. of the military company of Salisbury, Mass., Dec. 14, 1677, and Richard and James Carr, Ap'l 5, 1677."

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I came across my 6th great-grandfather's will and can actually read it! I enjoy looking through these old wills, this one is from 1777. I found a super interesting entry that mentions "Right in the Southern Publick Library," valued at £4.4.0. He valued education. Isn’t that awesome?

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a stack of books with the words " when in doubt go to the library "

Alt: a stack of books with the words " when in doubt go to the library "

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Long ago I was taught to read the whole document as not everything is indexed. (As you genies well know!) Tonight, I found another child of my 6th gg due to her husband's will. It stated that his wife was pregnant. I counted back 9 months and put in the “Abt.” date. Voila! I found their son.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Hello from Florida! I'm a newbie to #genchat but have loved the bluesky genealogy community these past several weeks.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This was in a book I read and I thought it pertained to family history, although that’s not what the book was about. #genealogy

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

1/ I read a historical fiction book where a couple inherited the man's father's house. In the attic, they discovered long-buried secrets. What intrigued me most was the wife's insistence on continuing the hunt when the husband was ready to shut it down because it hinted towards Nazis as ancestors.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

@drangelabuckley.bsky.social I just finished reading your book, "Amelia Dyer and the Baby Farm Murders." I never considered how "fostering" or "adopting" came about. What a cruel, sinister way to "get rich." It truly made me think. I look forward to my next Victorian Supersleuth Investigates read.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

1/Another wonderful webinar recording by @digitalarchivst.bsky.social! It's FREE until Nov. 27 if you do not have a Legacy account. "Top Ten AI Genealogy Breakthroughs of 2024" Key points for me: *better words/spelling in images- especially helpful for generating visual family trees.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I may be late to the #genealogoy party, but this is an interesting video by Dana Leeds on how to sort your DNA matches with AI. (🗒️This probably will not work for endogamous populations.🗒️) #AI #DNA youtu.be/tp5DzuLeaN4?...

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How to Sort Your DNA Matches with AI and the Leeds Method

YouTube video by Genealogy with Dana Leeds

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Thank you for the ancestry chart template, @jernealogy.bsky.social. I plan to expand my chart beyond six generations since it's fascinating to compare it with DNA communities. This will help me identify any gaps and focus my research efforts more effectively. #genealogy #familyhistory

An excel showing Generational places...mine are Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, W Virginia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, North Carolina, Ohio, New York, Slovenia, Poland, and New Hampshire.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

What ties together the brilliant mind of William Shakespeare, a mysterious Salem witch, a pioneering settler from the 1600s in Farmington, Connecticut, and the legendary Wild Bill? Read what hidden threads link these diverse characters. loganalogy.com/2024/11/20/w...

An illustration that visually represents the blend of colonial America, Wild Bill Hickok's legendary persona, and the connection to Shakespeare's birthplace.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

My pic from a different era is from the '80s when I still had long hair, a slimmer body, and a tan. My family rented a beach house every summer for many years. Extended family and friends came from all over. Those were the days!

A picture of me from the 1980s with longer blonde hair, a navy blue top, and white shorts.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I think this would be interesting for #genealogy as well. This particular post peaked my #gardening interest too. 😁

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Years researching: 30 Hobbyist or pro: I play a genealogist at home. (Hobbyist, I guess.😁) Fun fact/Wildest discovery: Finding a connection to the Wright Brothers based on a family legend. My niche/s: Not sure I have a particular place, but digging around online is my thing. But love archives, etc.

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Marlee Logan @loganalogy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I received a DNA match on my Ancestry account about a month ago. 🧬 Although it wasn't a close match, the person's profile resonated with me. She had been adopted at a young age and was eager to learn more about her biological family now that she was married and had young children of her own.

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