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Patty Hankins

@pattyhankins.bsky.social
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Genealogist and photographer in Montgomery County, Maryland. Servant to 4 cats. Always looking for the next good book to read.

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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kitty Jackson is sure that Anoush Anou came to the house just to see him and create a personal waterfall with the pitcher so he could get a drink of water . . . Who ever said my cats were spoiled? or think that the world revolves around them? #Photography #CatsofBluesky
A dark haired woman in a robe seated next to a table. She is holding a large pitcher with water in it. There is a basin at her feet. There is a brown/white cate on the table drinking the water as it pours from the pitcher
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Photo of Kate Snig from our photo session yesterday! Not exactly what I was expecting when I handed her a bunch of fake flowers - but WOW! So much more interesting/exciting that I was thinking. I love working with models who help me create unexpected and incredible images. #Photography
A portrait of a dark haired woman wearing a cream antique shawl with her face surrounded by cream colored flowers
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Three generations of the Hankins family - about 1898-1899 - probably taken in Auburn, NY I wrote about the photo on my blog at pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-... #Photography #Genealogy
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The Hankins Family in about 1898-1889
This photograph of the Hankins family was likely taken in about 1898-1899, based on how old my grandfather, Francis William Hankins, looks ...
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New on my substack - I talk about my workflow for editing old photos in Photoshop - the workflow works no matter what software you use (in case you have no desire to deal with Photoshop!) pattyhankins.substack.com/p/editing-a-... #Photography #Genealogy
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Editing a Cabinet Card in Photoshop
I’ve been meaning to write some posts for my Substack - with all sorts of ideas for videos, etc - but let’s just say - life got in the way.
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Today's amazing find in my files that I had NO CLUE I had - a photocopy of my great grandparents Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe's 1884 marriage record! The copy has probably been in my files for 20+ years and I have no clue who made it for me! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
While going through some old folders last night emails from Dad about the family selling produce during the Depression! pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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The Huckstering Hankins Family
When I was growing up, every now and then, my Dad (Philip Charles Hankins) would talk about his childhood in Collegeville, Montgomery Count...
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Inspired by the Three Graces Models: Ivory Flame, Artemis Fauna, Cariad Celis Photographed remotely from UK to Maryland #Photography #ModelPhotography
Three women in front of orange trees. They are all wearing peach colored dresses. The woman on the left and right are kneeling. The woman in the center is standing with her arms extended, holding an orange in each hand
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Keira Grant #Photography #ModelPhotography
A white woman with brown curly hair. She is wearing a blue broad brimmed hat and a white dress with blue flowers. In her hand, she is holding a Polaroid camera.
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Realized I haven't posted any of my photos in a while . . . Halo Haynes Taken remotely from Tankspace in Nottinghamshire to Bethesda, MD #Photography
Photo of a woman in a yellow dress - she is underwater - pouring a gold fabric from a pitcher
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
4 Generations in 1905 But I suspect it is Benjamin Tyler (1818-1913), his son Rufus R Tyler (1840-1908), his grandson Delezenne R Tyler (1869-1940), and his great grandson Howard Tyler (1895-1959). pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/06/four... #Genealogy #Photography #NewYork
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Four Generations - 1905
This snapshot is labeled Four Generations, 1905 - with no names or locations! It is glued to the back of the paper that has the 1906 weddi...
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
First day of GRIP and Katherine R Willson's Marching Toward Change. Today's sessions include an overview of social movements, the Second Great Awakening, the Temperance movement and the push for public education!!!! #Genealogy #GRIP2026
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Yeah!!! The recordings for the NYGB Work, Craft, and Calling: Understanding Ancestral Occupations are available! Looking forward to watching them over the next few days! #Genealogy #NewYork
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The library should have told the busybodies at Moms for Liberty that they were also creating a new "Hypocritical Scolds Who Are Into Sexual Three-Ways with Strangers" display in honor of Moms for Liberty and their scandals. #Pride
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Doing god’s work. Great NYT pic of the rainbow at the Kennedy Center last night for the “Great Unnaming”
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My grandfather Francis William Hankins in 1901. He was born in Sept 1897 - so depending on when in 1901 the photo was taken he was 3-4 years old. This may be the earliest family snapshot I have for my Hankins family. #Photography #Genealogy
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
What I suspect is Clara Belle Kellam and Floyd Harding's wedding cake - they married on 9 October 1906 in Hankins, Sullivan County, New York. Clara Belle was my great grandmother Mary Jane Kellam's younger sister pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/06/cake... #NewYork #Photography #Genealogy #Wedding
A black and white photo of a cake - the photo is cut into a heart shape
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I tend to get overwhelmed with full text search results. This week, I decided I needed to find a solution. Thanks to Claude and Airtable, I know what records I need to look at from home and which I need to look at from the Family Search Center. pattyhankins.substack.com/p/organizing... #genealogy
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Organizing Full Text Search Results with Claude and Airtable
So I don’t know about you, but I often get overwhelmed by the number of results I get using FamilySearch’s Full Text Search.
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My grandfather, Francis William Hankins, age 3 months - so probably December 1897. Photo taken at French's studio in Auburn, New York. I have to wonder if his mother, Mary Jane Kellam, was under that fur holding him up in the photo. pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/05/fran... #photography #genealogy
A formal portrait of a 3 month old boy. He is wearing a long white dress. He appears to be sitting in a wicker chair. There is a fur throw to the left - I suspect his mother is hiding under there holding him up
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Mighty Earthling Inspired by the Kodak Girl #Photography #ModelPhotography #KodakGirl
Young woman with long blond/brown hair wearing a 1960s floral print dress. She has sunglasses on top of her head, and a 1960s era Kodak camera hanging from her wrist
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Ivory Flame Photographed remotely from England to Maryland #Photography
A red haired woman in an orange dressing gown seated in a wicker chair
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@jessaraymuse.bsky.social Jessa Ray Muse #Photography #ModelPhotography
A young woman in a faux 1920s era dress and fascinator. Wearing long pearls. Sitting at a desk smoking a cigarette. Scene is lit by lantern light
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
From a remote photo session US to Netherlands with Zoi Morgan of Dreaming of Models. #Photography #ModelPhotography
A woman with dark hair wearing a white dress leaning into a mirror and her reflection
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A few photos by @lawrencesview.bsky.social from #NoKings at #NIH in #Bethesda #Maryland I was having too much fun protesting to bring my camera
Protester (me) with Vaccines Cause Adulthood signFrog with protesters - Signs read We Defunded Cancer Reserach for this (photo of ICE agents) and The Files ARen't in IRanProtestor with You Can't Fix Stupid But You Can Vote It Out signProtestors with signs reading "You Can't Exec-Order Away Disease", "Healthcare Not Warfare" and "It so bad I"m missing pickleball for this, No Kings"
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
We're going to the No Kings Rally at NIH today. I'm bringing my "Vaccines Cause Adulthood" sign because the way things are going we're going to start seeing more people dying of vaccine-preventable diseases. Are you heading to a No Kings Rally? And if you are, what will your sign say? #NoKings
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Zoë Celesta West @zoecwest.bsky.social Taken during yesterday's photo session. My editing challenge was choosing which of the amazing photos I took to edit first! Thanks Zoe! #Photography #ModelPhotography
A dark haired woman in a gold dress holding a bunch of blue hydrangeas
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Henry would like to wish everyone a Happy Caturday #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #OrangeCat
An orange and white can sitting on a blue pillow in front of a blue/pink photo backdrop
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Yvette Hoitink @yhoitink.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I have a genealogist joke, but we're keeping it in the family.
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My great grandfather William Lucas Hankins. Likely taken 1893-1894 in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York #Photography #Genealogy #NewYork pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/03/will...
1890s portrait of a young man
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Three photos of my great grandmother - Mary Jane Kellam. Probably all taken in the early-mid-1890s. #Genealogy #Photography
Young woman in a white dressYoung woman in a plaid dress
Young woman in a white dress
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Keira Grant @keiragrant.bsky.social #Photography #ModelPhotography
A dark haired woman in a vintage dressing gown sitting at a dressing table looking at her reflection in a mirror
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Frank Marion Kellam - my great grandmother's brother. Photos likely from the late 1880s, mid 1890s and before 1911 pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/03/fran... #Photography #Genealogy
Cabinet card of a boy wearing a suitHead and shoulders portrait of a young man wearing a suitOval portrait of a man wearing a suit
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
My grandfather, Francis William Hankins, and his parents, William Lucas Hankins and Mary Jane Kellam. Photo likely taken in 1898 (he was born in Sept 1897) in Auburn, New York pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/03/will... #Photography #Genealogy #NewYork #Auburn
Family portrait from 1898 - man on left wearing a suit, in the center is their child wearing a white gown, on the right, woman wearing a white dress
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Haley McKey #Photography #ModelPhotography
A young woman in a pink sleeveless dress form the 1960s - it has embroidered flowers down the front. She has dark shoulder length hair and has a big summer floppy hat on her head
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I generally don't like most AI transformations of historic photos, especially into videos. But I am impressed with how Julianne Kost suggests using AI to help create prompts for use in Firefly. Kost clearly tells Firefly what to do, what to change, and what NOT to change. jkost.com/blog/2026/03...
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Julieanne Kost's Blog | Introduction to Prompting in Adobe Firefly
In this Introduction to Prompting with Adobe Firefly, Julieanne shares a simple framework to help you turn your ideas into clear prompts for generative AI. You’ll see how giving specific, thoughtful d...
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This looks like a great event from The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society - NYG&B - just registered. I've got farmers, blacksmiths, ministers and a vaudeville performer in my tree! www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/events/work-... #genealogy #FamilyHistory
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Work, Craft, and Calling: Understanding Ancestral Occupations | New York Genealogical & Biographical Society
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
My great grandmother, Mary Jane Kellam. Likely taken in 1875-1876 (she was born in Sept 1874) Photo taken by at the Vail Brothers' Studio in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/03/mary... #photography #genealogy #newyork
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I was able to create an image using Google Gemini 3/Nano Banana that helps me know what my ggg grandfather John Call may have looked like based on a small photocopy of a photo I wrote about how I did it on my substack at pattyhankins.substack.com/p/john-call-... #AI #Genealogy #Photography
Image for a blog post - photocopy of a photograph of an old man at a desk - with the words - John Call meets Nano-Banana
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Gem tintype (1 1/4 X 1 3/4 inches) of my great-great grandmother Frances Maria Shafer (1846-1924). Likely from the 1860s or 1870s. pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/03/fran... #genealogy #photography #tintype
Tintype photograph of a woman with her hair pulled back in a bun, wearing a black dress with white collar, and three necklaces - one has a cross
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Moonlight Dreams Model: Ivory Flame Photographed remotely from England to Maryland #photography #ModelPhotography #IvoryFlame
A red haired model in a blue dress sleeping in a large crescent moon against a green backdrop
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
My great great grandfather - John Ross Kellam - photo likely taken about 1863-1864 in New York City based on the style of the carte de viste and info I could find about the photographer pattyhankins.blogspot.com/.../john-ros... #Genealogy #Photography #FamilyHistory #NewYork
Portrait of a man with a long beard wearing a suite jacket, vest and pants.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 19/02/2026
This is not normal.
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Susan Abigail (Hankins) Bush - photo probably taken between November 1894 and April 1896 when the photographer G.E. Priest had a studio in Tully, Onondaga County, New York. pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/02/susa... #Genealogy #Photography #Tully #NewYork
Head and shoulders portrait of a woman in a black dress from the 1890s
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Susan Abigail (Hankins) Bush - photographed by Addison Delevan Harding in Susquehanna, PA - likely in the mid-1870s pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/02/susa... #Genealogy #Photography #Pennsylvani #Susquehanna
Cabinet Card portrait of a woman in a black dress with white collar sitting in a chair
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Angeline Elizabeth (Hankins) Johnson. Her husband, Charles Akers Johnson, was a career Army officer, serving at at Fort Robinson in Nebraska and Vancouver Barracks in Washington Territory. Photo likely taken in the 1870s pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/02/ange... #genealogy #photography
Portrait of a woman with dark hair wearing a plaid dress with white lace collar
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Rebecca Thomas Hankins (1835-1918) - my great great grandfather's sister. Rebecca was a school teacher. She never married. Photo dates from between 1872 and 1885 - when the photographer Sighi had a studio in Binghamton. pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/02/rebe... #genealogy #photography
Portrait from the 1870s-1880s of a woman leaning on a pedastal. She is wearing a dark dress with a fancy white collar.
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
As I've been digitizing and editing my family photos, I've been wanting to write about how I do it. Figured not everyone wants to all the family photos I post to my blog So I've started a substack open.substack.com/pub/pattyhan... #Genealogy #Photography
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Welcome
If you’re like me and have hundreds (OK, maybe thousands) of family photos sitting in boxes, bags, and albums and you’re wondering how to share them with your family, you’re in the right place.
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Photograph of Howard Ross Hankins taken in Owego, Tioga County, New York. The dark background for the cabinet card dates it from 1884-1895. Newspaper accounts connect him with Tioga County between 1885 and 1890. pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/02/howa... #genealogy #photography
Portrait of a young man from the 1880s wearing a 3 piece suit, he is leaning on a chair
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Happy Groundhog Day! Because doesn't everyone's family photo collection include photos a groundhogs???? Photos taken in 1911 in Stafford, Genesee, New York #genealogy #Photography #GroundHog #Groundhogday #NewYork
A little girl with a groundhog on a family farmA little girl with a groundhog on a family farmA little girl with a groundhog on a family farm
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Lucas Wurtz Hankins (my gg grandfather), William Lucas Hankins (my g grandfather) and Mary Ellen (Ross) Hankins (my gg grandmother) Likely taken in the early 1880s in Manchester, Wayne County, Pennsylvania pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/02/phot... #Photography #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
Photograph of a family - man, boy, and woman - standing in front of a white picket fence in front of a large house. Likely taken in the early 1880s in Manchester, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
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Patty Hankins @pattyhankins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Children of John Hankins and Susan Thomas. Photo taken in 1894 in Binghamton, Broome County, New York pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2026/01/1894... #Photography #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #NewYork
Photograph of 4 women, 3 men taken in 1894. All the siblings are between their 40s and 60s. The women are wearing black dresses, the men suites.
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