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Genealogymum @genealogymum.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Me, a genealogist today: Drat, I got carried away with writing up my weare.xyz tree @simondmd.bsky.social that I forgot to make my coffee even though I boiled the kettle 🤣

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We Are a genealogy, family history and ancestry archive website builder

WeAre.xyz: a genealogy, family history and ancestry archive website builder

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Last Saturday’s SFHS Talking Family History Live was a fab day — real people, not Zoom! We launched the Shropshire Family History Hub, mapping county places for members’ local & ancestral research Thx our 'Great Leader' & Chair @57chestnuts.bsky.social Shropshire roots? sfhs.org.uk #FamilyHistory

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Looking forward to spending time with @helentovey.bsky.social's lovely Family Tree Plus members (of which I am a contented one). @familytreeplus.bsky.social #FamilyHistory

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Hello hello... turn family history research, photos and stories into a living digital archive your family can actually engage with. SAG’s beginner-friendly 4-session WeAre.xyz course starts May 2026 — with 6 months access included. www.sag.org.au/event-6587551 #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WeAreXYZ

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Hi, a quick plug for this virtual talk on Sat 11 Apr at the @sogorg.bsky.social. They've found this amazing speaker, can't recommend enough. Says will talk about tables and mudlarking of all things. Oh and will be his Dad's 91st b'day, so bringing a virtual cake. portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/2...

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Just did the most fun & thoughtful RootsTech Ridealong session with my most genuine of friends Barbara Tien at Projectkin. I should have talked more about WeAre, but this was just a beautiful stream of consciousness that made my year xx Barbara in Berkeley where sand dollars are the real currency 🙂

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Barbara at Projectkin @projectkin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

When a conversation begins "I have to tell you about time travel" you know it's going to be good. What a fun conversation with @simondmd.bsky.social. Watch for the recording with detailed notes within a couple of hours. #NotAtRootsTech #RootsTech #Genealogy #Storytelling #Ancestors

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Please do come along - a really fun chat rather than a workshop - lets see what hidden gems people have found in their research - and exchange experiences of getting family interest

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Can anyone decipher this? Shown as 'Residence at time of marriage' which took place in Montgomeryshire in 1843 #FamilyHistory

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This is post war HQ of Ministry of Agriculture Food & Fisheries (MAFF) 'Great Westminster House' Horseferry Rd, London. Seen here at 1937 opening. This is the ONLY image I can find - surely pics exist of a governement ministry???? anyone ? My Grandfather worked here in 1950s #OnePlaceWednesday

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

There is a little known time portal right here in the heart of London... app.weare.xyz/blog/the-byt...

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

If anyone's curious about WeAre.xyz collaborative archiving platform, I'm presenting to GeneBloggers Sun 9th at 3pm ET. Will meander over ancestral country lanes, Kansas creeks & WW1 trenches; support from Kevin the drone #FamilyHistory #Genealogy Free, register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Never say the English aren't inventive with our placenames. Gardeners Garden, Shoreditch, London (Ogilby & Morgan map, 1676). 🗃️ www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Got any glass plate negatives or marooned camcorder DAT tapes. @sogorg.bsky.social running this delicious course, and digitally preserving these will be my contribution: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1... #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My lovely daughter spotted this in a bookshop in York for £4 and brought it for me :) how great is that xx

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Looking forward to it - will be fun :) Anyone remember their camcorders?

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Calling lovely friends in Queensland. A Shropshire memorial & death date for 2xG Uncle Matthew Henry Davies led to his death in Colony Towers QSD 10 Jul 1897. I think was a gold prospecting town? Any tips on info sources gratefully received (death records, newspapers...) xx #GenHour #FamilyHistory

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Can anyone work out the last word: 'house painter plumber ??' Thank you :) This is wife's ancestor John Yoxall from Crewe England who landed at Ellis Island 1st Jan 1867

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Any ideas what bird this is from? Found on chalk down bordered by woodland. Have couple of ideas but won’t lead the witness :) @atcherleyons.bsky.social

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

OMG the fields behind my parents in my home village TODAY - Gt Shelford/Stapleford Cambs. 12 fire engines on scene I hear.

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

All welcome to our next Shropshire Family History in person 'TALKING FAMILY HISTORY LIVE' event. It's great this is now a fun lively biannual event emerging from the COVID shadow. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Julie Muirhead (The Lineage Finder) @thelineagefinder.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Well that's tomorrow's talk ready for the Family Historian Zoom Group. Starting with What is a #OnePlaceStudy, followed by examples from my @simondmd.bsky.social site and ending with some Family Historian customisations to help enter some particular types of records. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

First page of a powerpoint "What is a One-Place Study?"

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

EVENT Sat 30th Aug, 17:00 BST click to join: fb.me/e/3C9nqKIZC WeAre.xyz Features & Fun August Taster Join our super friendly group zoom on collaborative family archiving, & all things ancestral & nostalgic :) #FamilyHistory ChatGPT's image of group of genealogists having A LOT OF FUN on vacation

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A wonderful friend of mine just turned 60. His ancestor won a VC in WW1 so I made him this. Frame and photo cost about £20, the Victoria Cross an extra £400k but I’m sure you’ll agree it was worth every penny :) PS don’t tell him - it’s a surprise

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

spotted these beautiful carriages off Horse Guards Parade, London (practice for a military musical event tomorrow a friendly policewoman informed me)

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Hoping our US friends and relatives have a fabulous 4th of July ... This is a blog post I made about a 1990 visit to Fort McHenry on this very day... a long time ago... loving my t-shirt: app.weare.xyz/blog/the-byt...

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Twas the Fourth of July

On July 4th 1990, a friend and I visited Fort McHenry near Baltimore. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British nav...

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Liz @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

It certainly is a big achievement! I really enjoyed reading it, & it’s interesting to see how people are using #WeAre @simondmd.bsky.social for their #OnePlaceStudies #GenHour

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Jane Chapman @janechapman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Good question! I am progressively pulling all my #FamilyHistory research together into a #FamilyHistoryArchive using the weare.xyz platform (which I am also using for my #OnePlaceStudy)

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Jane Chapman @janechapman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

And this one is just the first in a series to come (alternating across different time zones). Definitely something to attend if you are using the weare.xyz platform to gather together your #FamilyHistory or #OnePlaceStudy research or thinking about using it for that purpose..

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We Are a genealogy, family history and ancestry archive website builder

WeAre.xyz: a genealogy, family history and ancestry archive website builder

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Wonderful review on Substack, made my day... 'Diving Into My Family’s Story on WeAre.XYZ' open.substack.com/pub/heritage... Thx @barbarajeanmay.bsky.social

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Oh the joy, my son has finally presented me with a meal cooked all by himself - swelling with pride…

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Defrosted the freezer - it’s the simple things in life :) Now to WW1 4th South African Infantry Battalion service records - where are they??? #FamilyHistory #WW1

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Look at this beauty, a female Harris Hawk on Shaftesbury Avenue, opposite Chinatown. Scaring pigeons off Sondeim theatre, home of Les Miserables

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I loved this new book 'Firestarter'. True story of 1830s arsonist in Gt Shelford (where I grew up). You really are transported. Backdrop of 'inclosure', Swing Riots, underpinned by archive letters, newspapers, assize & parish records & the harsh finale on the gallows. #Genealogy #OnePlaceStudies

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Help - can anyone decipher this word in a late 1700s UK will? #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Have to love the ‘Merlin App’ for song recognition - Wormwood Scrubs this lunchtime

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Curious, any ideas? - Henrietta Brent baptised in 1792 in High Ham Somerset along with younger sister. They were born 1787 and 1789. Think parents were gentry, she will marry landed gentry. Why the baptism delay - they feared unbaptised infant death #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Simon Davies (WeAre.xyz) @simondmd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Enjoying our @shropshirefhs.bsky.social Shropshire Family History Society in person day - our Great Leader Karen demo’ing the imminent new website. #FamilyHistory

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Jane Hough 🌳🧬🏡 @allthosebefore.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Some people (myself included) are using @simondmd.bsky.social’s platform weare.xyz which has a version specifically designed for #OnePlaceStudies. I just need to get round to uploading some of my content!