ESPowell

Retired genealogist

[Kenneth R Marks @marksology]

FamilySearch New and Updated Collections – May 1-31, 2024 (Huge Update)

An astounding 1,838 new/updated free collections from FamilySearch are available from now on to search or browse. These records are from the U.S., and all over the world.

https://t.co/SOfQdEMli7 #genealogy

[Salt Lake Institute @SLIGinstitute]

Excited to announce that two courses have already sold out for SLIG Fall Virtual 2024! Are you registered? #SLIG #FallVirtual2024 #Genealogy #Education

[ESPowell @ScalisePowell]

I have one of those from awhile back and I think the answer is in there somewhere!

[Lifelines Research @Dave_Lifelines]

Sometimes, the scribbled, hand-drawn family tree is the only answer...
#OldenDaysResearch

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

Because of the tireless work of our Palestinian team, WCK has served 1 million meals in Gaza since resuming cooking this week. Thanks to their efforts, we’ve provided 46+ million plates of food through hot meals & food kits since first responding to the conflict. #ChefsForGaza

[ESPowell @ScalisePowell]

THIS! How can they live “normal “ like previous generations?!

[Ex-Evangelical Janeway🖖🥂🔍🏴‍☠️ @XianJaneway]

OMFG.
I don't think I understood Gen Z until this very moment.

[Lara Diamond @larasgenealogy]

Tonight starts Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here are the names of the my 990 relatives I have traced so far who were murdered in the #Holocaust. Remember them.
#YomHashoah #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
https://t.co/oXIrKa0zCn

[Melanie McComb | ☘️ The Shamrock Genealogist 🌳🧬 @ShamrockGen]

This is a great example of what a box pew would have looked like for a family in 18th-century New England.

These box pew rentals would be passed down in probate records or sold off from the estate.

[Emily @librarymet]

You can't talk abt the death of volunteerism without talking about the decreasing buying power of the average daily wage. If you have to work multiple jobs, if the average household MUST have at least two wage-earners to make ends meet, you don't have time for volunteering.

[ESPowell @ScalisePowell]

Introductory essay to Legacies of Eugenics, a series of essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics & the ways it shapes our present. Disturbing but we need to understand history in order not to repeat it!
https://t.co/cXzmXw3wnJ via @lareviewofbooks

[Family Sleuther @FamilySleuther]

Honored to learn that the Ohio Genealogical Society named my book, "Thomas Kirk of Licking County, Ohio: A Genealogical Survey 1778-1846," the 2024 recipient of the Governor Thomas Worthington Award for best Ohio biography.
https://t.co/pSOgP6wSKC

[Jenny Hawran @jennyhawran]

I took a week-long #GRIP course on Irish research last summer virtually and it was incredible. GRIP is a great experience.

[ESPowell @ScalisePowell]

@CristaCowan Book longevity

[Crista Cowan 🍃Ancestry Corporate Genealogist @CristaCowan]

Big news in #genealogy today.

https://t.co/d0KjG9WfEn

[ESPowell @ScalisePowell]

An interesting exchange…

[Melissa Barker @TNArchivist]

@DLGenealogist This is why I have headstones in my archives from the 1830s. They belong in a cemetery that was paved over to create a state highway in the 1970s in Tennessee. They are for Benjamin Kelly and his granddaughter Louisa Parchman, at least they are together. #genealogy #archives

[Denyse Allen ⏳ @denyse__allen]

@DLGenealogist Significant portions of Philadelphia are paved over cemeteries. They yanked the gravestones (and used them as landfill for buildings) and never moved the remains. I can’t believe the disrespect

[David Allen Lambert @DLGenealogist]

Destroying evidence of a cemetery is criminal. https://t.co/4q6EKZ5hG9