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Family historian, travel enthusiast, ret. public health nurse, reader, writer, & researcher, author of two books on early French-Canadian history. California - USA Website: www.tracingsbysam.com
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If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Are you kidding??? Such a clown!!
Did a child in your family tree end up in an orphanage? You can find their records with the help of these online resources: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
Hooray for the Guys. I very much appreciate the Guys who come to the house and do the small jobs that companies don’t want to do.
Check out La Société des Filles du roi et soldats du Carignan (SFRSC). Lots of great information on the young French women who immigrated to Canada and were known as Daughters of the King! #FrenchCanadian Ancestry fillesduroi.org
To those with #FrenchCanadian ancestry—These two books will provide context for the stories of your 17th century pioneer ancestors in New France. Available on Amazon in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
Look again! You may be pleasantly surprised to find new documents that add to the #FamilyHistory for forebears previously researched. 🙂
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
A history of Montreal’s founding and early years, with an emphasis on the lives of the women, the ordinary as well as the prominent, who settled there.
The history of a place adds significantly to stories of our ancestors. Community defined their lives in so many ways. #genealogy
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Psaki: I felt a mixture of anger—a lot of anger—and emotional exhaustion about this today, as I’m sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times. And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
California voters are leaning YES on the redistricting ballot. 48% in favor, only 32% opposed. People get it. The narrative is on our side. Remember: CA puts it to the voters. Texas skipped the people. Ours is a one-time fightback that returns to the commission. Texas’ gerrymandering is permanent.
“No one is above the law.” Seriously, Kash? Look no further than the White House.
#Genealogy Tip — Spelling variations can befuddle researchers. Include in your notes the spelling of the name on the document, if it is not the norm. Or list all the ways the name has been spelled on records for that individual.
Make a list of the family keepsakes and heirlooms in your home. Photograph each object. Add provenance details, including dates, where the object came from, original owner, and why the object has special meaning for the family. 2/2
#FamilyHistory Will your descendants remember the story behind that precious family heirloom? These objects can be an important part of the ancestral narrative, but they lose their meaning if the story is forgotten or if details are unclear. 1/2
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine that dramatically BOOSTS the immune system’s ability to fight tumors- even WITHOUT targeting a SPECIFIC cancer type. It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery AND radiation treatment.
I so hope!
Jakob Easterbrook married Sarah Marble on January 26, 1679 at the St. Mary Magdalene Church, Taunton, Somerset, England. They were my 8th g-grandparents. What a gorgeous marriage record!
My FAVORITE resources for research on the #FrenchCanadian Pioneers ... Check out the list! www.tracingsbysam.com/frenchcan.html
Be careful out there! I was surprised to see one of my ancestors listed as a Lt. in the Am Revolution on Find a Grave website with a credible source cited. I checked source. He is not listed there — or anywhere else as a Rev War participant. #Genealogy Check sources for info found on the internet!
I’m waiting for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s response.
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory Why I download/look at/save the handout before viewing a webinar! So many webinars, so little time, but the syllabus helps me prioritize my viewing climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-...
John Easterbrook and the War of 1812: He served on both sides of the conflict. bit.ly/John-Easterb... Sources — Military records at the British National Archives, a military historian, church records at Ancestry, local histories in Ohio, Canada, and England, and a distant cousin.
#Genealogy - This 1916 obituary for Jacob Fry Cackley, my 2x g-grandfather, identifies 5 generations of family... And so much more! Such a find! Newspapers can be great resources for family history. 1916 Obit for Jacob Fry Cackley of Clinton, IL bit.ly/Jacob-Fry-Ca...
Look again! You may be pleasantly surprised to find new documents that add to the #FamilyHistory for forebears previously researched. 🙂
The best place to start your #genealogy journey? Your own kitchen table. Begin with yourself, then work backward, names, dates, places, and stories. You know more than you think. Don't forget, your story matters too!
Before 1850, records get tricky, but they’re out there. In this video, I show you how probate records, deeds, and early censuses can unlock your family’s 1700s–1800s mysteries. Watch now and start piecing your tree together! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cot1... #genealogy
genealogy - My go-to list of resources for research on my French-Canadian #ancestors www.tracingsbysam.com/frenchcan.html
ANCHORAGE…
The volume of Canadians taking road trips into the U.S.—the way most Canadians visit—dropped by 37% last month compared to July 2024, according to new data from Statistics Canada, following a 33% drop in June. There was also a 26% decline in air travelers from Canada year-over-year.
#Genealogy Tip Use local history to paint a more complete picture of your ancestor’s life. If you have #FrenchCanadian ancestry dating back to 17th century Montreal, this book will be useful.
Free Online Mid West States City Directories - Updated An excellent source of #genealogy info is Historical City Directories. They provide substantial info between censuses, such as addresses, occupations, spouse', etc. For the region, there are 8,045 Free Collections. buff.ly/vq5FOKC
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Good night, dear friends. It’s 01:30 in Ukraine. Hopefully calm and peaceful night for all of us. 🇺🇦Every day at 09:00, Ukrainians pause for a one-minute silence to honor those who lost their lives in the war. We will never forget. We will never forgive.
Gone but not forgotten. Remembering those who generously shared the family stories, documents, and photos with us. Our responsibility is to pay it forward. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
The Women of Ville-Marie — Pioneer Women of early Montréal as seen in the context of place and time. Thoroughly researched, well-cited, non-fiction, available on Amazon in the USA , UK, and in Canada.
There is a saying that every time a person dies, a library burns down. Mom died many years ago. I so wish that I could talk with her and hear the family stories again. #FamilyHistory
Late response to #genchat — I found a lot of records for my 2x g-grandfather, a Confederate soldier captured by the Union army, on Fold3.
Take a closer look at your ancestors' occupations. It's one thing to know an ancestor worked for the city department of sanitation. It's quite another thing to discover the conditions of that job in that place and at that time. #genealogy #familytree family-tree-advice.blogspot.com/2025/08/jobs...
Did you know that there are three kinds of DNA? Genetic genealogy expert Debbie Kennett explains the difference between autosomal DNA, Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA - and how they can help your family history research 🧬 www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
I'm officially launching the #genealogybookclub hashtag with a new book rec: The Women on Platform Two by Laura Anthony! In Ireland in the late 1960s, contraception was illegal. In this book, a group of Irish women gradually become radicalized to take action for women's reproductive rights.🧵 (1/3)
#Genealogy To illustrate #FamilyHistory projects, consider copyright-free images from Pexels and Pixabay, as well as Wikipedia Commons. I like to use their free photos to catch the reader's eye and add a dramatic visual to an ancestor's story! climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2025/08/free...
Then there is the person who has contributed 10,000 photos but will not accept messages. No way to contact for permission to use photo in story of your ancestor. 😬
No, no, no. I prefer the other trend of more colorful, engaging obituaries that really show who the deceased was. #genealogy
The vital records(birth, marriage, and death) of the Catholic Church in Quebec and Montreal go back to the 17th century. Wonderful resource for those of #FrenchCanadian descent! #FamilyHistory
Look again! You may be pleasantly surprised to find new documents that add to the #FamilyHistory for forebears previously researched. 🙂
All of a sudden my feed is filled with scantily clothed men and women in suggestive poses. Ugh!! How did this happen? Did I get on some list? Happening to others? I block, but is there something more I can do? NOT WANTED!
The other day, I visited an exhibition that left me speechless. It shows women who lost their sons and husbands in the war. I’m sharing part of it with a poem that played during the video. I added English subtitles. For you. Please watch. And share. So others can see too.
The Women of Ville-Marie — Pioneer Women of early Montréal as seen in the context of place and time. Thoroughly researched, well-cited, non-fiction, available on Amazon in the USA , UK, and in Canada.
This epidemic of mass shootings and killing of innocents—Only in America. 😢
"I scoured longevity research on wellbeing – and the deeper I dug, the more I recognized a profound underlying pattern," writes Kerry Burnight.
This is another Epstein victim speaking out. Please post any videos of testimonies from victims. Their words are powerful. 👇👇👇👇👇
#Genealogy Asking for help in dating this photo from Darke County, Ohio. Taken, I believe, sometime between 1860 and 1890.
#Genealogy Asking for help in dating this photo from Darke County, Ohio. Taken, I believe, sometime between 1860 and 1890.
Concerning …
If you aren’t already following @rachelwells1.bsky.social, who reports on reproductive health from Tennessee & scooped the story about the woman who was denied care for a pregnancy because she was unmarried, you’ll want to follow her immediately!
When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 124 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
Andry is a gay Venezuelan asylum seeker sent by the US, with no evidence against him & with no due process, to CECOT in El Salvador. El Salvador admitted last week that the U.S., not it, controls the fate of the prisoners there. We can & must get him, & all of them, back. #FreeAndry freeandry.org
Tell a friend to tell a friend NO buying produce July 16,17 & 18th. #USA #Strike #KeepGoing #Cali #California
For more information on the #FrenchCanadian pioneer women who settled in Montreal, the ordinary as well as the prominent, read The Women of Ville Marie, available on Amazon in the USA, Canada, and the UK. #History #FamilyHistory
From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination. Row after row of baby headstones.
Tariffs are not the only way Trump is raising prices for all of us. His inhumane immigration escalation is doing incredible damage to our food supply which will increase prices for all us in the coming weeks. Trump = sabotage, plunder and betrayal.
I have 38, spread across the country — some I have never met. My dad was one of 11.
This is just sick. via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon
Seriously!!! This is my old town. Farm workers out there sunrise to sunset, picking crop after crop of strawberries. Back breaking work in all weather. To put food on our tables, money in the corporate farmers pockets. And this is how we thank them?!! Makes me want to throw up!
Awful, Awful — What has our country become??? 💔💔
Chief Happiness Officer? You. Director of Wellbeing? You. Stress Management Lead? You. Optimism Supply Chain Manager? You. Motivation Coordinator? You. Head of Progress? You. Courage Under Fire Manager? You. Hope Strategist? You. Director of Forward Motion? You. Chief of Picking Yourself Up? You.
I care. 💔 Slava Ukraini. Praying for peace and the wellbeing of people worldwide.
I visited Dachau 3 times in my travels over the years. Haunting and horrifying. I will never forget. And here we are…
Woman sees a video on Instagram extolling the virtues of an herbal supplement, turmeric. She begins taking the supplement and is ultimately hospitalized for a week because it caused liver damage. Dietary and herbal supplements are largely unregulated but RFK Jr. doesn’t care about that.
“I represent 67,000 pediatricians across the country. … Let's be perfectly clear, this bill will cause devastating impacts to children. And while children only represent 22% of our population, they represent 100% of the future”. - American Academy of Pediatrics President Dr. Susan Kressly
At a doctor’s office — with no warrants, masked, no ID 😳 What are we doing? 🇺🇸
My Master’s in the Humanities helps me.🙂
We didn’t know these girls existed until we found their markers. And then a second cousin shared info from the family bible she inherited. Their mother (husband’s g-grandma) lost 3 of 6 children to childhood illnesses now preventable with vaccines.
With heavy hearts and profound sorrow, we extend our deepest condolences to the families affected by the devastating floods in Texas. Our full statement:
John Easterbrook and the War of 1812: He served on both sides of the conflict. bit.ly/John-Easterb... Sources — Military records at the British National Archives, a military historian, church records at Ancestry, local histories in Ohio, Canada, and England, and a distant cousin.
We didn’t know these girls existed until we found their markers. And then a second cousin shared info from the family bible she inherited. Their mother (husband’s g-grandma) lost 3 of 6 children to childhood illnesses now preventable with vaccines.
One of the things about historical research is you encounter the fact that children used to die at heart-breaking rates. The cemeteries are full of tombs with zero to eleven year life spans. The correspondence mentions child death on a regular basis. Children died often.
Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”
I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset. I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
thread you must read:
The Women of Ville-Marie provides context for the lives of the pioneer women and men who settled in Montreal in the seventeenth century. Available on Amazon in the US and Canada. Great for researching #FrenchCanadian ancestry.
This is related to my pet peeve — requiring articles on genealogical research to include URLs in source citations. URLs change when websites are updated/reorganized, resulting in non-functioning URLs.
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 112 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
BREAKING: A striking new mural in Roubaix France shows the Statue of Liberty covering her face in shame. It was unveiled just one day before America’s Independence Day. Titled “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest,” the piece was painted in by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw on a building.
As a daughter of a WWII fighter pilot, I,too, cannot understand how anyone who wore/wears a military uniform supports this Russian puppet.
Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July
A simpler time — Ready for the Fourth of July parade in Plymouth, Ohio c1915.
