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Tammy A. Hepps

@tammyhepps.bsky.social

Creator of HomesteadHebrews.com

Tammy A. Hepps @tammyhepps.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Only interested in Ancestry's 1890 Club if they reconstructed the 1890 census by reading it off the burnt fragments à la www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buri...

smithsonianmag.com

Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia

A revolutionary American scientist is using subatomic physics to decipher 2,000-year-old texts from the early days of Western civilization

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Tammy A. Hepps @tammyhepps.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Registration is now open for an unprecedented 18-part, online course on Chinese American genealogy. One of the parts will be my case study on the Chinese laundrymen of Homestead. Read more/register here: grip.ngsgenealogy.org/courses/chin... And pls help spread the word!

The Local News (Homestead) 2/11/1888 ad for Chinese laundryman

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Tammy A. Hepps @tammyhepps.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Check the t-shirt: "You can take the girl out of Homestead, but can't take the Homestead out of this girl."

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Tammy A. Hepps @tammyhepps.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

@thecuckootree.com did the work for me of summarizing my trip to Carnegie's birthplace. I indoctrinated her into my anti-Carnegie cult, and she indoctrinated me into the cult of her gorgeous dog, Enzo.

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