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Valorie

@valorie.bsky.social

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Family, PFLAG, genealogy, anthropology, history, gardens, KDE, Kubuntu,; lover of art, music, literature, books, film, nature, all things free and open. She/her

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Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sunrise, Sunset skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/10/sunrise-sunset.html #Family #Friends #Funeral #Gathering #Generations #Insight #Memories #Memory #Pain #Stories #Writing

Image: "Sunrise", courtesy of Pixabay

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Surveys skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/10/surveys.html #Feedback #Ideas #JunkMail #Spam #Suggestion #Service #Survey #Volunteer

image "Surveys" Generated at Vecteezy 4 October 2026

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gusher, Jetstream or Waterfall? skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/09/gusher-jetstream-or-waterfall.html #Focus #Genealogy #History #Pennsylvania #Prepare #ResearchTrip #Slavery #Virginia #War

Image: photo of "Hilltop family cemetery still in use" by author Marcia Ford

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My Obsession--a Confession skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/09/my-obsession-confession.html #Murder #Mystery #DoverTrunkMurder #1914 #DoverEngland #BookReview

mage: Book cover, The Dover Trunk Murder by Nathan Dylan Goodwin

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When Disaster Strikes skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/09/when-disaster-strikes.html by David T. Spangler #Disaster #Assassination #Loss #911 #Tragedy #Collective #Pandemic

Image: Photo The Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg catching fire on May 6, 1937 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey.

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Labor Day skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/09/labor-day.html #GroverCleveland #History #LaborDay #Laborers #NewYorkCity #Parade #Trades

Image: U S Dept. of Labor photo: First Labor Day parade, September 5, 1882

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Namaste skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/08/namaste.html #Namaste #Respect #Mistakes #Beginner #SlaveHolder #SlaveSchedule #Repair #Criminal #DollyParton

Image: photo "Light within all living beings," by Stefan Perneborg via Flickr; free to use.

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Don't Fence Me In skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/08/dont-fence-me-in.html #Land #LandRecords #BountyLands #MilitaryWarrents #PLSS #PublicLandSurveySystem #KCLS #GLO #Township #Range #Section, #Patent #BLM

Courtesy of Vecteezy--"Night Starry Sky and Pink Clouds Sunrise"

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Make a Plan to Make a Plan skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/08/make-plan-to-make-plan.html #Plan #List #Schedule #Research #Genealogy #ResearchLikeAPro #GPS #GenealogicalProofStandard #Routine #Calendar

drawing of a grocery shopping list, courtesy of Open Clipart

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oroboros skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/08/oroboros.html #AlliedFamily #FANclub #genealogy #InterMarriage #Records #Research #Stories

Image: drawing of Oroboros: free image courtesy of Magnific.com

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My Family Burial and Death Mystery skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/08/my-family-burial-and-death-mystery.html #Mystery #BurialCustom #ChurchRecords #Depression #Suicide #Shame #Newspaper #Story

Photo of Westfall headstone provided by author David Miller

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Revenoors - MyTrip Down A Rabbit Hole skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/07/revenoors-mytrip-down-rabbit-hole.html #WhiskeyRebellion #UlsterIrish #Taxes #RevenueAgent #AlbionsSeed, #Independence,#Moonshine #SnuffySmith #BarneyGoogle

Image: drawing: Mob tars and feathers revenue agent during Whiskey Rebellion 1794

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Digging Deeper skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/07/digging-deeper.html #Blindside #Catalog #CivilWar #Distress #Enslaved #FamilySearch #FANclub #Inherit #Link #Probate #Records #Repair #ResearchHoles #ResearchPlan #SlaveSchedule #UShistory #USBH #Wikitee @wikitree.bsky.social

Image: photo of man digging a very deep ditch by kellytf via pixabay.com: Public Domain

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Notice of Sheriff's Sale: Foreclosure skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/07/notice-of-sheriffs-sale-foreclosure.html #BLM #FAN club #Foreclosure #LandDescription #LegalNotice #Map #Newspapers #SheriffSale

Image: photo Dorothea-Lange-Florence-Thompson-and-her-children-in-a-pea-pickers-camp.-Nipomo-California.-March-1936; courtesy of PBS

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

One Thousand Words skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/07/one-thousand-words.html #Photo #Mystery #Clues #Picture #Hint #Family #Archives

Image: Seattle Middle School photo, June 1954

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"Charlotte's" Web skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/06/charlottes-web.html #Clue #Collateral #Family #FANclub #Link #Obituary #Puzzle #Relationship #Story #Web

Image: Photo: Spider web with morning dew by Ivicabrlic, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spider_web_with_morning_dew.jpg

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Blaze A New Path (Ancestry) skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/06/blaze-new-path-ancestry.html #Accuracy #Blessing #Fact #FANclub #Gallery #Hints #Linking #Obit #OnlineTree #Path #Record #Relationship #Tmeline #Transcribe @washingtontrails.bsky.social @bobzman.bsky.social

Image: photo of WTA volunteers building trail. Used with permission. Washington Trails Association: https://www.wta.org/

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Noun, or VERB? skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/06/noun-or-verb.html #Action #Context #Dates #Detail #Obituary #Place #Story #Timeline #Trends #Verb

mage: AI generated cartoon of human in action

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

D-Day 6 June, 1944 skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/06/d-day-6-june-1944.html #WWII #DDay #Normandy #MilitaryCemetery #OmahaBeach #ABMC #PointeDuHoc #Flanders #TheLongestDay

Image: photo by David Hutchinson of Pointe du Hoc; used with permission

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

In the Weeds skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/06/in-weeds.html #Tag #Facts #FamilyHistory #FANclub #Hunting #Lawsuit #LegalNotice #ResearchNotes #Story #Transcribe #Newspapers

Image: photograph "Great Blue Heron in the Weeds" at a lake in SE Kansas, by L. Haen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

What Fits skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/05/what-fits.html #Archives #Art #Dna #Mystery #Help #Index #Interview #KCLS #Project #Stories #StoryCorps #Transcribe #Volunteer #Wikitree @kcls.org @wikitree.bsky.social

mage: The Winged Victory of Samothrace, Louvre Museum. photo by Carole Raddato: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

What is the "Why" in your research? skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/05/what-is-why-in-your-research.html #Why, #PushPull #Motive #Investigation #Locale #History #PersonalHistory #Culture #Context #Rcords #Details #FANclub #Analysis #ResearchReport #GenealogicalProofStandard

Image: Photo Why, why, why, why? by dullhunk: CC BY 2.0

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

What's in a Name? A Rose. . . skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/05/whats-in-name-rose.html #Names #Identity #Family #Tradition #Patronymic #AncestralNaming #CommonNames

Image: photo A Rose By Any Other Name... by Sheila Unwin: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Proving Your Tree with DNA? skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/05/proving-your-tree-with-dna.html #DNATest #Genealogy #Evidence #IndirectEvidence #Context #DNAMatch #Proof #Logic #BiologicalRelationship #SharedcMProject #FamilyHistory

Image: generated by Nanobnana 2 May 2026 of family members examining a family tree chart with DNA

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

That Extra Information skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/04/that-extra-information.html #Ancestors #History #RevolutionaryWar

Image: Ethan Allen and Captain de la Place. May 1775. The capture of Fort Ticonderoga, New York. Copy of engraving after Alonzo Chappel; National Archives : https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/5310/531003/content/arcmedia/media/images/28/4/28-0320a.gif

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Quicksand Ahead skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/04/quicksand-ahead.html Genealogy #Research #Records #Relationships #FANclub #Census #SameNameConfusion,timeline #Comparison

Image: photo of Quicksand Ahead warning, Used with permission of photographer Steven Young Caudill

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

One Book, One Coast: "They Called Us Enemy" skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/04/one-book-one-coast-they-called-us-enemy.html #FamilyHistory #UShistory #Libraries #KUOW #BookClub #WWII #PrisonCamp #GraphicNovel

Image: cover of "They Called Us Enemy" by George Takei

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Saw Off a Branch, or Bark Up the Wrong Tree? skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/04/saw-off-branch-or-bark-up-wrong-tree.html #Pruning #Sources #DuplicatePprofiles #Records #Ancestry #FamilySearch #FamilyTreeMaker #Gramps #MyHeritage #LegacyFamilyTree #RootsMagic #Wikitree #FamilyTreeAnalyzer

Image: photo ofTwo workers pruning street trees in London during World War I, released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence.

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Spring Challenge skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/03/spring-challenge.html #Spring #Plan #DNA #Records #Travel #Challenge #Outreach #Help #Volunteer #Leader #Ssupport #Budget #Education

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The Maple Valley Indivisible team leader said that there were about 800 people with us today at 4 Corners. He had just finished the count at about 12:30 Pacific. Many more people 15 minutes up the road at Covington, I hear. Didn't take many photos; but here is one: ❤️

My photo at No Kings today, 4 Corners, Maple Valley, Washington. Signs: Compassion, not Kings. We the People are Pissed. MELT ICE and so many more. One of my favorites: Someone you love is trans or gay. We all matter.

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Journal of A. Tyler in Revolutionary War skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/03/journal-of-tyler-in-revolutionary-war.html #RevolutionaryWar #BostonSiege #AbrahamTyler #Ticonderoga #Ancestor

Image generated by Vecteezy: 250th USA Anniversary

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Revolutionary War Ancestor skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-ancestor.html #USA250 #WASGS #SKCGS #RevolutionaryWar #Ancestor #Story #Biography #Service #Honor #Duty #PensionFile

Image: vecteezy_red-white-blue-star-pattern-250th-usa-anniversary-banner_74063364

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Monday blog: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/03/well-behaved-women-seldom-make-history.html #WomensHistory #CivilDisobedience #WellBehavedWomenSeldomMakeHistory FamilyHistory #Genealogy #ReligiousFreedom

Image: Women's Month Vectors by Vecteezy

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Late Bloomer skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/03/late-bloomer.html #FamilyStories #Employment #LateBloomer #Mission #Grief #Loss

photo by Bob Zimmerman of Lola McBee Cowan 25 December 1998. Used with permission.

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Happy Birthday USA skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/02/happy-birthday-usa.html #USA250 #Birth #Growth #Struggle #Success #Immigration #Poverty #Turmoil #Triumph #Civics #Stories

Image: South King County Genealogical Society celebrates 42 years since founding. Created by MaryLynn Strickland

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Love on the Rocks skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/02/love-on-rocks.html #GenealogyReseach #NewspapersDotCom #LegalNotices #Obituary #Sharing #GenealogyLists

Image: The Hamilton Farmer's Advocate, Hamilton, Missouri, Thursday 21 November 1912, page 1, column , "CALDWELL CIRCUIT COURT: November Term Adjourned Friday Afternoon--Proceedings Since Last Issue," Jennie vs David McBee divorce judgement; Newspapers.com : accessed 13 February 2026.

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Step Up and Make a Difference skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/02/step-up-and-make-difference.html Service #Volunteer #Secretary #Officer #Skills #Contribute #Collaborate #Nominate

Cartoon supplied by author Melanie Hinds

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Doubt skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/02/doubt.html #Doubt #Facts #Records #Context #GenealogicalProofStandard #FANclub #ResearchPlan #RecordHints

Image: drawing conveying doubt; bold question mark surrounded by scribbles, courtesy of Freepik.com

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Revisit #Genealogy #Research #Ancestry®ProTools #DNAmatches #OldResearch

Image: Photo White Goose Flying - Royalty free from pickpic.com

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The Hop-Pickers Murders https:/ skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-hop-pickers-murders #BookReview #MurderMystery #NathanDylanGoodwin #Hops #HopPickers #UK #Poverty

Image: photo by Ron Strutt. Hop garden at Syndale Farm, Kent, UK. CC BY-SA 2.0

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Nominations Are Open skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/01/nominations-are-open.html #Leadership #Elections #Volunteer #Nomination #Candidate #Aging #Responsibility #NonProfit #Organization #Support

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Unusual Sources skcgs.blogspot.com/2026/01/unusual-sources.html #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #CoalMining #GrundyCountyIL #Library #Theses

Image photo:Diamond_Mine_Disaster_Historical_Marker_Grundy IL, courtesy of WiikMediaCommons

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

025: What Happened skcgs.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025-what-happened.html #Education #Outreach #Study #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Volunteer #Free #ecords #FamilyTreeMaker #Wikitree #Tech @KCLS #Libraries

“Father Time” by Linnaea Mallette: Public Domain license

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Spit & Polish skcgs.blogspot.com/2025/12/2026-spit-polish.html #GenealogicalProofStandard #GPS #Ciations #PublicTrees #Maps #Timeline #Photos #Screenshot

Image: graphic of the Genealogical Proof Standard: https://bcgcertification.org/ethics-standards#genealogical-proof-standard-gps

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The Christmas Ornaments (reprinted) skcgs.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-christmas-ornaments-reprinted.html #Heirloom #FamilyHistory #Depression #Genealogy #Holidays #Celebration

Image: birds on an open mailbox with a wrapped Christmas present

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Finding Tidbits skcgs.blogspot.com/2025/12/finding-tidbits.html #JonathanMarney AnnPOliver #CaptNimrodAshby #MajStapleton #Crutchfield #FauquierCounty #HamptonVirginia #WarOf1812

Image: Marney's 1850 Warrant

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Thankful skcgs.blogspot.com/2025/11/thankful.html #Genealogy #Research #Obituary #Census #PublicHealth #Medicine #Care #Disease #Science #DNA #Records #Context #Stories

Image: photo by James Wheeler: Free to use. Pitt Meadows, BC. CanadaCrop Field Under Rainbow and Cloudy Skies at Daytime

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Collaboration & Synchronicity=Magic skcgs.blogspot.com/2025/11/collaboration-synchronicitymagic.html #WikiTree #FamilySearch #Genealogy #Projects #Collaboration #Synchronicity #Interdependence #DNA #DNAmatches

Image: small logos of Wikitree and Familysearch; courtesy of Wikitree.com and FamilySearch.org

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

On the Flip Side skcgs.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-flip-side.html #Tactics #Strategies #Plans #Practice #Endogamy #DNA #Obits #Habits

Photo by Chris Hagerman: Two Face: The Flip Side roller coaster at Six Flags America. CC 3.0

Valorie @valorie.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Explore! skcgs.blogspot.com/2025/11/explore.html #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Education #Goals #Happiness #LearningStyles #Research #Deadlines #Success

Image: Comic, by Creator: Gregg Evans Copyright: © 2025 GCE Inc.