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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 26/09/2026

I've started using Wikitree because some egregiously incorrect information about an ancestor is getting constantly regurgitated onto Ancestry and Find a Grave, and am amazed at how attached people are to their completely wrong and unsourced trees. #genealogy

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 22/08/2026

Someone hasn't seen Poltergeist! 🪦

Carol Ann of Poltergeist (adorable little girl with long blond hair) eerily lit by the light of the television that will soon attack her, which we later learn is because her house is BUILT ON TOP OF AN OLD CEMETERY

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 18/08/2026

Update! I'm genuinely thrilled about this addition to the Glasgow Subway www.instagram.com/p/DcI3HYOETpd

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CSketch @csketch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh my god I think I found the video.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Okay, so with seemingly no prospect of a job anytime soon whatever I do or say, I am once again asking: For freelance RA work suitable for a contemporary historian, for research and writing, for journalism… which I already do on a regular basis as a newspaper columnist…

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 21/07/2026

"90% of the artists, singers, musicians, composers, and industry professionals were murdered; studios, master recordings, equipment, contracts, and legal documents were lost or destroyed." Preserving Cambodian Album Art:

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Preserving Cambodian Cover Art

A look into the work of The Cambodian Vintage Music Archive

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 21/07/2026

High-traffic carpets, Mitchell Library, Glasgow.

Two different patterned carpets meeting at an open wooden doorway. In the foreground, the carpet is a vibrant, textured pattern of swirling red, orange, and purple hues resembling abstract floral or marbled motifs. Beyond the threshold of the open double doors, the second carpet features an intricate, geometric interlocking Celtic knot or trellis pattern in shades of green, gold, and black.

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Never thought I'd ask this question but: Irish placenames peeps, how regularly was P.W. Joyce wrong, and how reliant are current translations on just his assertions?

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 01/07/2026

Really positive news for the genealogy community

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It appears my countrymen have arrived in the Americas and culturally appropriated a statue of George Washington.

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 31/05/2026

Glasgow subway update: mysterious screens, devoid of information.

New screens affixed to the ceiling in a Glasgow subway station.

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 20/05/2026

I've only read one chapter so far (and I skipped to 'The End of Marriage', my favourite part), but the rest looks fascinating as well.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Scottish history column: Working Class Courtship, Marriage and Divorce, 1855-1939. How a narrative of the ‘traditional’ family is challenged by the complexity of familial and domestic experience. www.thenational.scot/culture/2611...

thenational.scot

The new book charting Scotland's history of marriage

THERE’S a milestone to mark. This history column has now been running for nearly a year and now has reached 25 instalments. It is believed to be…

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

One of the most important parts of archival research is understanding the relationship of documents we discover to other documents we find them near. That’s why we go sit in reading rooms for days at a time instead of just asking archivists to scan individual documents. 2/

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 02/05/2026

At the subway, a young man was about to buy a ticket from the machine with a card, when a subway employee in the booth rapped on the glass, shouting "Tap awn, tap awn!" Contactless has come to Glasgow Subway.

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Barry Freed @barryfreed.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This eyewitness account of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire always brings me to tears (read the whole thing trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html)

As I looked up I saw a love affair in the midst of all the horror. A young man helped a girl to the window sill. Then he held her out, deliberately away from the building and let her drop. He seemed cool and calculating. He held out a second girl the same way and let her drop. Then he held out a third girl who did not resist. I noticed that. They were as unresisting as if he were helping them onto a streetcar instead of into eternity. Undoubtedly he saw that a terrible death awaited them in the flames, and his was only a terrible chivalry.
Then came the love amid the flames. He brought another girl to the window. Those of us who were looking saw her put her arms about him and kiss him. Then he held her out into space and dropped her. But quick as a flash he was on the window sill himself. His coat fluttered upward-the air filled his trouser legs. I could see that he wore tan shoes and hose. His hat remained on his head.
Thud-dead, thud-dead-together they went into eternity. I saw his face before they covered it. You could see in it that he was a real man. He had done his best.
We found out later that, in the room in which he stood, many girls were being burned to death by the flames and were screaming in an inferno of flame and heat. He chose the easiest way and was brave enough to even help the girl he loved to a quicker death, after she had given him a goodbye kiss. He leaped with an energy as if to arrive first in that mysterious land of eternity, but her thud-dead came first.

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 16/03/2026

@joelhs.bsky.social I got an email about your talk on Wednesday and I wonder if it will be recorded? I'm in the UK and don't know if I can manage to stay awake!

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.

Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

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Kosher Nostra @harfenist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If you’ve never heard music legend Sinn Sisamouth, a Cambodian crooner cut down by the murderous Khmer Rouge, here’s a nice place to start. Have always loved this man’s voice and style.

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YouTube video by Sinn Sisamouth - Topic

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

People talk about who has citizenship and who does not as though these are absolute, ontological qualities that confer moral worth, as opposed to legal fictions invented by the state to distinguish between an in-group and an out-group, and can be conferred or withdrawn at any time.

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 21/01/2026

Last night I was dreaming that I was at one of Molise's best restaurants,Trattoria da Filomena. I was trying to decide between the chitarra al sugo and the cavatelli (both incredible) and my pulse quickened to such a degree that I woke up with a start. Minor electrical issue?

Restaurant table with tablecloth, bread basket, cutlery, glasses of water and a bottle of frizzante. The eye is immediately drawn to a plate of cavatelli pasta with a red sauce. On top is a generous glob of chilli sauce. It looks enticing, but wait! There's also a plate of spaghetti alla chitarra with a similar red sauce. Indecision sets in.

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 19/09/2025

I will never forgive LLMs for taking the em dash away from me

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 14/07/2025

Today I made an appointment to apply for German citizenship under Article 116(2) of the Basic Law. This is the Reich newspaper that announced that my Jewish grandmother had been stripped of her citizenship.

Front page of the German Reichsanzeiger and Prussian State Gazette from 1940 with a list of names, birthdates, and places of birth of German Jews who had their citizenship removed.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Relatedly, if you haven't been in an archives you have no idea just how much historical material is not online, not even a digital record of it. An LLM cannot research data it doesn't have. It can't even extrapolate where to find that material.

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 05/05/2025

Did you know the Glasgow Fire Brigade made a dog an accredited member in 1898? Wallace was a setter-collie cross and of "unusual intelligence". His dog license was paid by the Glasgow Corporation, a nod to his official role. He died in 1902 and was preserved and displayed at Central Headquarters.

Black and white photograph of a taxidermied dog with a thick collar and black ears on display with a pair of dog-sized boots in front of him. From 'Glasgow Curiosities' by Carol Foreman.

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 28/04/2025

Just spoke Italian to a flight attendant on my flight to Italy. Absolutely killing it.

Painting of Judith holding a knife while a woman behind her carries the head of Holofernes. Sandro Botticelli, circa 1470

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 24/04/2025

For Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) I wanted to memorialise some of the Goldbergs in my family who were murdered in the Holocaust.

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 17/04/2025

Many family history researchers try to prove links to nobility. But our less well-off ancestors can be even more interesting, if sometimes difficult to research. In Glasgow around the turn of the century, much attention was given to the plight of mothers living in slums. #genealogy

'Woman With Naked Baby, Slum Interior', Glasgow, no date, c.1910, Glasgow City Archives, C67

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 09/04/2025

A few weeks ago I visited the archives at the Berlin Jewish Museum, where a lovely archivist showed me the collection from my grandmother's family. It was very powerful to see my family papers in a historical archive, and a reminder that everything is history. 🗃️

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 24/03/2025

Most unhinged letter I've seen yet in my archival research😭 in YIVO's collection about the landsmanshaft mentioned in the letter. Undated.

New York, August 25th

Mr. Budofsky

With regard to our telephone conversation of last night, it occurs to me that you are probably still unaware of what prompted me to express the hope that I might soon have the pleasure of attending your funeral. Ignorance such as yours was not built in a day and I should not have expected it to be demolished in a night.

Therefore, in the hope that others might be spared the hurt and rage which you so witlessly inflicted upon me, my brother, and others, I will tell you precisely "what you did wrong."

1. During the family's important and very personal consultation with Rabbi Simon, you brusquely intruded yourself into this room of sorrow solely to instruct the Rabbi to be sure to "given mention" to the Chvonicker Aid Society when he spoke his eulogy. In short, you used the moments during which my mother was addressed to God as a vehicle for advertising your grubby little "Aid" society.

2. Again, at graveside, when Rabbi Simon stumbled over the pronunciation of "Chvonicker", you were there loud and clear to prompt him in behalf of your commercial. To you, the most important presence at the funeral was the Chronicker Society. To me, and to those others who cared for her, it was my mother. It is only to a man of enormous insensitivity that this should have to be pointed out.

Had I not been so astonished by your first intrusion, I would have countermanded your instructions to Rabbi Simon on the spot. But the past few days had been trying ones, and my mental reflexes were not what they ought to have been.

In retrospect, Mr. Budofsky, I have no more genuine personal interest in your funeral do care enough, however, about the that this letter will reform your Society. than you had in my mother's. I grief of strangers, to trust future ardors in behalf of your

Sincerely,

George Emmitt

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 07/03/2025

This talk about a case study by @tammyhepps.bsky.social on the Chinese laundrymen of Homestead is going to be amazing.

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 06/03/2025

Hannah Holtschneider's presentation was fascinating, drawing on the Oppenheim family archive held at the Scottish Jewish Archives Archives. I hope she finds a way to turn this into a larger work.

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 06/03/2025

Looking forward to this Rootstech panel 'Scottish and Irish Genealogical Connections' with @cbgenealogy.ie, a fellow UL History of Family grad! #genealogy #Rootstech www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 05/03/2025

This talk tonight by Hannah Holtschneider, 'Eavesdropping on other people’s conversations: German Jewish refugee family correspondence in Holocaust historiography' looks really interesting (particularly as I have German Jewish refugee ancestors who were prolific correspondents). Anyone going?

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Professor Hannah Holtschneider's Inaugural Lecture

Eavesdropping on other people’s conversations: German Jewish refugee family correspondence in Holocaust historiography

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 24/02/2025

The Wiener Holocaust Library event at the Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre yesterday was great. I learned more about the International Tracing Service (ITS) and how to preserve my home archive. Plus a tour of the Scottish Jewish Archives and Garnethill Synagogue. @wienerlibrary.bsky.social

Harvey Kaplan talking about the collections of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre at the Wiener Library event in Glasgow yesterday, 'Recovery & Repair: Supporting Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust in Britain' with Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre and the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre

The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre in Glasgow

The excellent presentation by Elaine Woodbridge included some hands-on demonstrations of tools for preserving and digitising a home archive

Torah scrolls at the Garnethill Synagogue

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 21/02/2025

The previous Wiener Holocaust Library event in Glasgow was excellent, and I'm sure this will be, too. It also includes a visit to the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre. #genealogy

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 21/02/2025

Years ago I lived in Spitalfields and never knew any details about its Jewish past (apart from the bagels). This memory map of the Jewish history of London's East End is wonderful, with photos, essays, and recordings from former residents. h/t @scientistsoph.bsky.social jewisheastendmemorymap.org

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A Memory Map of the Jewish East End

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Lina G. @thecuckootree.com · 15/02/2025

I'm researching a Jewish woman who fled to the US in 1941. While examining her passenger manifest I noticed that her contact person in the US was no less than Margaret Sanger at 501 Madison Avenue, NYC, the Planned Parenthood headquarters!

Clip from a 1941 passenger manifest that reads Margaret Sanger 501 Madison Avenue New York City

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources. On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names. dan rigiššu “loud is his bark” munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe” mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”

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