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Bob Georgiou @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This weekend, I spent a few hours at the Wellington County Museum & Archives, built in 1877 as the House of Industry & Refuge. I was researching Jane Ward of the Brooks' Bush Gang of Toronto, who had a stay at the 'Poor House'. Thank you to the great Archives staff for their help!

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Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Students at the University of Portsmouth are digitising more than 600 tapes containing video footage of Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, which sank in the Solent. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'Race against time' to save Mary Rose video archive

Students are digitising more than 600 video tapes showing the 1982 Mary Rose salvage operation.

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Who says family history has to be stuck behind a screen? I’m taking it to the Cheltenham Badlands and its first landowner, George Wilson. This isn’t just a hike; it’s a detour into 19th-century settlement, local lore, and ancestral footprints. www.kinalytic.com/2025MAY11

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International Society of Genetic Genealogy @isogg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Tune into CeCe Moore revealing “The Book of Life” to #DrHenryLouisGatesJr on #FindingYourRoots tonight (Tuesday) on @pbs.org . CeCe says, “I was so honored to sit in his host chair and reveal the secrets of his own family tree.” #CeCeMoore #DNA #genealogy #PBS #GeneticGenealogy #isogg

CeCe Moore and Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. hold his “Book of Life”

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Solved an adoptee case today. Client turns 80 years old this year and he finally knows who his father is! I know this will bring him the closure he was looking for. #genealogy #geneticgenealogy #dna

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Dinner with my fellow students and tutors from the University of Strathclyde, Genealogy, Heraldry, and Paleography. Had a blast! #RootsTech2025 #Genealogy #GeneticGenealogy #RedIguana2

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Met Cairenn @cairennoid.bsky.social today and had a great discussion about #IGG and #geneticgenealogy - will be in touch! #RootTech2025

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Wrapping up RootsTech 2025, I had the privilege to meet the wonderful CeCe Moore. #GeneticGenealogy #RootsTech2025 #IGG

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Bob Georgiou @bobgeorgiouto.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

You know that amazingly-detailed 1893 Bird's Eye View map of Toronto? Someone went through it and annotated it! www.research-lab.ca/2023/06/toro...

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Past To Present Genealogy @janeroberts.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies leads on the creation of new ‘Papal Dispensations for Marriage’ database. #FamilyHistory 👇🏻 www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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Papal Dispensations for Marriage Database | University of Strathclyde

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I did two remarkable things today. I voted in the Ontario election's advance polls and donated blood. #OntarioElection #GiveBlood

Canadian Blood Services, it's in you to give

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We had a bit of snow. One line of ancestors came from the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. This is what their first winter would have looked like.

3 feet of snow on chairs and benches in a backyard

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I’m a lucky man. My new book, *Freedom Ship* (May 2025) has received generous blurbs from Ed Baptist, Angela Y. Davis, Drew Faust, Eric Foner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Amitav Ghosh, Adam Hochschild, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Naomi Wallace. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

World got crazy again. Stand strong fellow Canadians. #togetherwestand #canadastrong

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Mitch Goldstone (ScanMyPhotos.com) @scanmyphotos.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

@mims.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹 I’m always the optimist, but now 💔. The wildfires erased entire family histories. Every photo—gone. I’ve spent 34 years helping save memories, thinking about what’s been lost is unbearable. A heartfelt plea: digitize your photos—anywhere. Protect your history. /Mitch

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I'm working on a Hobeck DNA case this week. I contacted a potential match for an adoptee on a Hobeck line who is willing to do a DNA test. It will take a couple of months to confirm this, but this person is the key to establishing an adoptee's father.

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Help! Calling all Genealogists! I need to find a City Directory or a Telephone Directory for New York, specifically Felt Mills or Watertown! I've been working on a DNA mystery—a man with a Y-DNA connection to my husband. I am reasonably sure I have found his father (he was adopted).

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Sean Vanderfluit @deckofancestors.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

LEGO has noticed all the genealogists! 😬 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This Saturday will be one year since we lost my Dad. I should have posted a memorial for him on Legacy.com as a genealogist. But I just haven't found the strength to do it yet. Putting out the memorial for all to see feels final, all over again.

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Legacy.com

Legacy.com features obituaries from nearly 10,000 newspaper and funeral home partners from around the US. Publish your obituary with any of our 2,700+ newspaper partners and create a lasting memorial with Guestbook on Legacy.com.

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Sheila Hobeck @shobeck.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I miss the old pre-Elon online genealogy community on that bird site. Like many of you, I deleted my Twitter account. All my favourite genealogists are now here, and I am so glad to see everyone's #genealogy posts. I have missed you all. I am looking forward to your posts!

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