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Anna Matthews

@relativelyhistoric.bsky.social
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Love is love. Black Lives Matter. Free Palestine. Slava Ukraini. 26+6=1. Science is real. Women's Rights are Human Rights. Water is Life. No human is illegal. Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere. AI is not to be trusted. Elbows Up!

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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A headstone at the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in Nijmegen, Holland and a cenotaph at Reedsville Cemetery in North Hatley, Quebec for L/Cpl. Lawrence Nimmo Dean. One of so many who never made it home. #31daysofgraves Day 7 - Home
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#31DaysofGraves Day 6 - Weather When the Eastern Townships got 6 inches of snow the day before we arrived.
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#31DaysofGraves Day 4 - Entrance Just inside the gates of Elmwood Cemetery in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Photo showing a hill with a sign made of white rocks on a brown background on a green lawn with tall evergreens and other trees. The sign reads ELMWOOD in all caps.
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#31daysofgraves Day 2 - Urn A Smith headstone at Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale, NY. Because you never know what might put a crack in a brick wall.
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FindAGrave user "New York Historian" had found the headstone propped against a tree in 2009, years after it was replaced. Thank goodness for his photo or this little piece of history would have been lost! Below is the new stone with Buster included. And some flowers! #31daysofgraves
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
These are the great-grandparents and grandmother of my partner. When Catherine's husband died, the family put up a new headstone. I was very confused to find this photo (used with permission) on FindAGrave when I went to post the photo I had taken. #31daysofgraves Day 1 - Flower
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Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#31DaysOfGraves Day 1 - Flower: I wanted to start local. Here's a disembodied hand plucking a bud from the cross commemorating the Rayner family at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool. Likely erected c.1889.
Sandstone sculpted hand plucking a bud from a wreath of flowers.A large sandstone cross with rock-shaped base.An image of the New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków, overlaid with text:
#31 Days of Graves
Day 1: Flower
Day 2: Urn
Day 3: Glass
Day 4: Entrance
Day 5: Vehicle
Day 6: Weather
Day 7: Home
Day 8: Animal
Day 9: Lettering
Day 10: Missing
Day 11: Humorous
Day 12: Ordinary
Day 13: Unusual
Day 14: Brick
Day 15: Language
Day 16: Faith
Day 17: Music
Day 18: Earth
Day 19: Water
Day 20: Fire
Day 21: Air
Day 22: Mourning
Day 23: Wings
Day 24: Contrast
Day 25: Tree
Day 26: Accident
Day 27: Portrait
Day 28: Landscape
Day 29: Fruits/Vegetables
Day 30: Colour
Day 31: Memento Mori
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Colleen Chanel (Colleen Toscano) @colleenchanel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sept 30th - A day of reflection on this National Day of Truth and Reconciliation "Remembering the Children". The Memorial Cloth this year is 60 meters long for more than 5000+ of the children that did not return home from the Residential Schools.
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Watching live from the States on YouTube on the CBCNews channel. The length and apparent weight of the cloth was heartbreaking.
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Miscelena 🌳🧬 @miscelena.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Regular reminder: There has *always* been the option to be an abolitionist. There was *never* a time when slavery was 'just how it was' and unchallenged. Genealogists: If you're still using that excuse for your ancestors' behavior, maybe read more and do better.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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DJ "Jo" NoneYa 🟧 @djnoneya.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I still have 1 full of my early genealogy research in my file cabinet and 1 tall container of cd's ... Then there's 8 tracks, vcr tapes, 70s cassette tapes Reel-to-reel, an 8mm camera/film with a 50s projector along with my grandparents home movies I'm 69, the family keeper of memories & "stuff"
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 24/08/2026
In Elmhurst, Queens, a burial ground where nearly 300 freed Black people were laid to rest in the 1800s has been paved over and is now used by an NYPD contractor to store abandoned cars. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/24/n...
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They Paved a Historic NYC Black Burial Ground. Now It’s a Lot for Abandoned Cars.
The bodies of nearly 300 free Black people buried during the 1800s lie under the asphalt in East Elmhurst, Queens. The lot was used by an NYPD towing contractor.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
SEPTEMBER 13, 2026
TODAY AT DENVER
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ICE TRAFFICKED SHACKLED HUMAN BEINGS TO MESA, ARIZONA - A PRISON HUB FOR DETAINED IMMIGRANTS.
AIRLINE RESPONSIBLE:
AIR WISCONSIN (CSI AVIATION)
TAIL # N444ZW
CALL SIGN AWI7378
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Mrs. N @btwnthesepages.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I do not even know how to ChatGPT. I have no intention of finding out.
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José Orta @orta69.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Data centers contribute to higher power bills by driving up electricity demand, requiring expensive grid upgrades, and raising wholesale market prices.
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hard pass.
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WikiTree @wikitree.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Less than a week to #WTChallenge 9! We're growing connections for Justin York, an award-winning genealogy software developer ⌚ 10-17 Sep, Noon ET No special skills needed, just curiosity🔍 www.wikitree.com/g2g/2068539 #CollaborativeGenealogy #WhereGenealogistsCollaborate
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, but censured the practice of leaving loaded firearms within reach of small boys." We never learn.
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Newspaper research can be so much fun and very enlightening, but some days... Searching for an 1888 death notice for the seven-year-old son of a couple in my tree and found he was shot to death accidentally by his friend when they stumbled on the friend's father's loaded gun.
Newspaper clipping "A sad affair took place at Waterville on Saturday, 23d. Two little boys Percival Hodgson and Ernest Flanders went into the stable of Mr. G.S. Flanders, father of Ernest, and found a gun loaded to shoot birds, and the Flanders boy took it up and pointing at Hodgson, fired, not thinking it was loaded. It was found that the Hodgson boy had received nineteen duck shot. He lived until Wednesday morning. An inquest was held the same day by Coroner Woodward. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, but censured the practice of leaving loaded firearms within reach of small boys.
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Eye bleach immediately!
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Spencer Green @spencergreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2026, this is for you.
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Whenever it is that death comes for me, we're going to have a talk first about 2026.
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Azure Robinson @azurerae.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hosting this Zoom session today at 3 & 7pm ET Come ask questions, see what link builders do, and why it's so important to the supporting the WikiTree mission.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“By her example, we believed anything was possible… she will always love you.” ❤️ #RIPDolly From the family of Dolly Parton: www.facebook.com/share/v/1P2y...
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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You know, it's ridiculous to build data centers and then have the power company sending out emails like, "the grid is in peril! Unplug your TV, toaster, and laptop today for three hours to save energy!" You know what else saves energy?! Knocking down data centers and not building more!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Jeremy Spurrier, 51, drives to Illinois to get ice to chill his insulin. "If I run out of ice, that’s several hundred dollars of insulin just ruined,” he said.”
abcnews.com
Tens of thousands in Indiana are still without power a week after deadly storms
Tens of thousands of people in northwest Indiana remain without power, more than a week after deadly storms leveled trees and knocked down power lines across the region
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Instead of fighting senseless wars, we should be fighting climate change. Instead of building data centers, we should be building housing. Instead of corporate welfare give us universal healthcare.
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WikiTree @wikitree.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
❓#QuestionOfTheWeek Have you ever photographed headstones at a cemetery? 🪦 youtube.com/shorts/D74HE... Share your story in G2G — and if it's your kind of thing, our Cemeterist Project could use you. www.wikitree.com/g2g/2071252 #CollaborativeGenealogy
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❓#QuestionOfTheWeek Have you ever photographed headstones at a cemetery? 🪦
Whether it was one ancestor's grave or an entire churchyard row by row, we want to hear about it. What did you find? Did the stone confirm a date you'd been chasing, or raise a whole new…
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Azure Robinson @azurerae.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Coffee's on & the slides are ready! Talking @wikitree.bsky.social for surname researchers for @surnamesoc.bsky.social TODAY 8am PT / 4pm BST FREE Hope to see you there www.wikitree.com/g2g/2066016 #WhereGenealogistsCollaborate #CollaborativeGenealogy
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I'm there.
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Azure Robinson @azurerae.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Your surname now has a to-do list. Not a grade. A list, with counts: 99 unconnected profiles here, 26 unsourced there. New on WikiTree+ 👉 countrygirlgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/08/Surn... #Genealogy #OneNameStudies #Surnames
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SNAP has an outstanding ROI: every dollar we invest in SNAP generates $1.54 in economic activity. With SNAP cuts, people can’t continue to support these local grocers, so local businesses suffer. Everyone loses.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
😕 💰
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
*looks directly at camera*
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Áine ní Donnghaile 🍃🌳 ⚾ 🫖 💙☘ 🍷💉🌊 @ainedonnghaile.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
#Genearosity #FamilyHistory I'm at my #AffiliateLibrary today if anyone needs a limited-access record copy. #PayItForward #SpreadTheWord
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
*If it's Quebec
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sometimes BAnQ will have a better image.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
SCOTUSBlog as profit center is not pretty
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Gibbs Slaps Tony DiNozzo in NCIS
ALT: Gibbs Slaps Tony DiNozzo in NCIS
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Anna Matthews @relativelyhistoric.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
That feeling of finding a long sought baptismal record with birth date, but also...it was hiding in plain sight all these years!!! 🥳🤷‍♀️ #genealogy #genealogyhappydance
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Little Girl Dancing Happy Dance in Sunglasses
ALT: Little Girl Dancing Happy Dance in Sunglasses
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock on Legal AF: We must ban partisan gerrymandering... Gerrymandering is politicians picking their voters rather than voters picking their representatives.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨Caught on camera: Ken Paxton PANICS when asked about owning 15 homes worth $9 million on a $153,000 government salary. Paxton dodges, stammers, then says “I’d like to keep today to law enforcement!” Classic Paxton—refuses to answer, cuts the presser short. Texans deserve better.
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