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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 28/09/2026

Most likely @avavsystems.bsky.social will be able to do it or to recommend someone more local who can!

Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 28/09/2026

My copy of this record is marked with a tax stamp that shows it was sold between 1943 and 1946. "Whole self" apparently even predates the version we know today of the rest of the lyrics! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_En...

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78 rpm - Lou Preager and his orchestra - The cokey cokey

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 15/09/2026

Yes, I transfer anything irreplaceable pretty much as soon as I get it - but I also enjoy playing the cassettes!

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 14/09/2026

Very annoying when a cassette decides it doesn't want to play any more. Oh well, at least it's a mass-produced one this time and not an Esperanto one where there might not even be any other copies anywhere in the world to replace it with!

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lipamanka from toki pona @lipamanka.gay · 07/09/2026

New video! youtu.be/nFSaRjW7woY Please participate in the study please I want them to have as much data as possible so we can learn about Toki Pona vowels

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Exciting new research on Toki Pona vowels!!

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 05/09/2026

A short piece on some group research done the other day on Bluesky, about BBC2, snooker, and Red Dwarf. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/a-gi...

Coverage of the snooker, with the caption:
Red Dwarf will follow this Final

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Áine ní Donnghaile 🍃🌳 ⚾ 🫖 💙☘ 🍷💉🌊 @ainedonnghaile.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#Genearosity #FamilyHistory #Genealogy I'm back at my #FamilySearch Affiliate Library for a few hours this afternoon (Saturday, 5 Sep) if any genie needs a limited-access record copy. #PayItForward #SpreadTheWord

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 05/09/2026

Yes please! Could you have a look and see whether you can download this marriage bond for me please? (It should be the same record for both links) www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1... www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1...

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David Parlett @dparlett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I invented a fairy chess piece that can move to any square to which it could not legally move if it were any other chess piece. I called it a Joker, but I now think Cat would be better.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 31/08/2026

The best thing to do is to try and find other records of the same person and cross-reference. Did he baptise any other children at the same church, or can you find him on the census? (Or I can have a look for you if you'd like!)

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 23/08/2026

Does anybody know what happened to Gravestone Photographic Resource (gravestonephotos.com)? It was an incredibly useful site but seems to have been down for at least a couple of months now. :( #genealogy

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 18/08/2026

Also, excitingly, the copy of Evidence Explained I ordered just got delivered. I didn't know the Royal Mail did deliveries this late! #AncestryHour

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 18/08/2026

Evening all, #AncestryHour! Today I've been going through my genealogy database to try to weed out entries where I'd marked an occupation or place as illegible. About half of them I managed to figure out what they actually said, and most of the rest are genuinely not readable at all.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 17/08/2026

This was really interesting and helpful! It reminded me to go through my database and make sure any specific details of suicides weren't included in the publicly-shared information. Thanks!

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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Benefits of learning to play the recorder: If you know "Stairway to Heaven" you will attract guitar players who will come up and ask you to jam. 🎶

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 14/08/2026

Here is a comparison of how Red Dwarf, “Holoship” was first introduced back in 1992 on BBC Two network, and how network, Wales and NI introduced it last night. Forgive my poor editing done at 2am.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 13/08/2026

Good evening #GenHour! I've not got much genealogy news to report this week, but a friend found my name on a gravestone about 35 miles away from where I live. Unfortunately the rest of the stone is hard to read, so we're not sure when he died - and I can't find him in the parish burial register!

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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#genealogy Important 🧵on tracing facts back to their original sources. Please read. It's so easy to fall into the "so many trees say this, it must be true!" trap.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 12/08/2026

🟥 REWIND | Full marks to BBC Northern Ireland Presentation tonight. Announcer: David Gordon.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 11/08/2026

A fairly quiet week for me research-wise. Still plodding onwards with the French people, but I did do a little bit of Devon a few days ago and got a new DNA match (with someone who was actually already in my tree!) today. #AncestryHour

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 08/08/2026

Today's #genealogy finding: William Nicks married Mary Baker. Their son William Nicks married Mary's niece (his first cousin), also called Mary Baker.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 06/08/2026

I had a few people in my tree whose surnames I'd entered as ??? because they were illegible in the document I'd looked at. Your thread reminded me to go back and find some more sources for them, and now they all have names! Thanks!

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 05/08/2026

Anthony Marr does an excellent talk on the history of civil registration and will almost certainly be able to give you a good answer - www.chalfontresearch.co.uk/Contact.html

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Chalfont Research - Contact Me

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 02/08/2026

Antaŭ 100 jaroj hodiaŭ aperis la unuaj diskoj de Esperanto-muziko! Legu pli ĉe mia blogo: eomuziko.com/eo/posts/100... 100 years ago today, the first ever Esperanto music records were released! Read more on my blog: eomuziko.com/en/posts/100... #Esperanto #EsperantoMuziko #MusicHistory

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100 Jaroj de Esperanto-Muziko

Hodiaŭ, la 2-a de aŭgusto 2026, estas ekzakte cent jaroj post la eldono de la plej fruaj muzikaj diskoj en Esperanto: kompleto de du ŝelakaj 78t/m gramofondiskoj, el kiu unu enhavas du versiojn de La ...

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 31/07/2026

Help please - do I know anyone who's good at coming up with names for things? I have a business idea and I'm struggling to find a good name for it!

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 30/07/2026

That's what I was leaning towards already, so good to know it makes sense. Thanks!

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 30/07/2026

What's the best practice for recording French republican calendar dates? GRAMPS will accept them and sorts them properly, so should I just enter them as in the record, or convert them to Gregorian? Or maybe put the Gregorian date in the event description for easy reference? #GenHour

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 30/07/2026

This week I found out that FamilySearch has searchable indexes of French BMD records, which makes that part of my extended tree a lot easier than the last time I tried! The transcribed dates are often slightly wrong though, so worth battling through the old French handwriting nonetheless. #GenHour

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 30/07/2026

I still wouldn't be born yet. But in 1926 my great grandfathers were an ironmonger, an inspector in the fire brigade, the manager of a gentlemen's outfitter and a farm labourer.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 26/07/2026

This record was recorded exactly 100 years ago today. With another disc of "La Espero", it was the first ever released record of Esperanto music. More info: eomuziko.com/en/posts/esp... - another post will follow to mark 100 years after the release date (next Sunday) #Esperanto

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 26/07/2026

Tiu ĉi disko estis registrita antaŭ ekzakte 100 jaroj hodiaŭ. Kun alia disko de "La Espero", ĝi estis la plej frue eldonita disko de Esperanto-muziko. Pliaj informoj: eomuziko.com/eo/posts/esp... - sekvos plia artikolo por festi la 100-jariĝon de la eldondato (venontan dimanĉon) #Esperanto

Disko sur gramofono - Esperinst: La Tagiĝo kantita de Maurits Boeren.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 23/07/2026

Looking forward to this! Just got to record my two talks first!

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 23/07/2026

I always assume that they must have a reason for believing the information in their tree - so I try to find out what the reason is. Often it turns out not to be a very good reason, but sometimes it points me to something actually useful!

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Amazing fact Santon Downham in Suffolk is the location of both the highest and lowest ever June temperatures en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santon_...

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Santon Downham - Wikipedia

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Dai Davies of GenealCymru @genealcymru.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A fun feature of doing #Welsh #Genealogy is that, no matter what you do, your work is always considered "too Welsh." I gave a talk once & was told I "used a lot of Welsh words" [pejorative]. How many did I use? 1 single place name. I spend an hour talking abt English culture of family 1/

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 18/06/2026

I *might* have found a baptism for one of my brick wall ancestors. Still a few questions to resolve on it, but it's looking promising! #GenHour

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 09/06/2026

I would also submit that the presence of a corner where the road suddenly turns through almost 90 degrees (junction 5) disqualifies any consideration of it being a circle. As does the fact that there's a break in it. At best it's an arc of about 357 degrees.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 31/05/2026

Congratulations, that's amazing!

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 28/05/2026

Getting ImageMagick to do what I want can be exasperating at times, but it's very satisfying once it works!

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 13/05/2026

Bonega novaĵo! Mi atendas senpacience!

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