It's rather fabulous to see so many from the #genealogy / #FamilyHistory / #OnePlaceStudies community assembling on another platform. The Blues(ky) Brothers (and Sisters) are putting the band back together! Shake a tail feather and join us there? 🦋

#GenHour is starting now!

Liz G It was incredible to see & be a part of. Proof, for #genealogy folks leaving this place or just trying out a potential new space, that there is now an alternative that is both viable as a working platform and sufficiently populated with like-minded people for ongoing interaction.

To find out more about Conygar Tower—including the amount spent on cider for the masons who built it!—read this #Dunster #OnePlaceStudy blog post by 🇺🇦🌻Willsman One-Name Study 🌻🇺🇦. #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite.

I'm also at bsky.app/profile/mattpo… which feels like this place used to a decade ago. Come and say hello.

#WW1 & #WW2 war memorials in the church at #Sudbourne, in Suffolk - my grandmother’s village #LestWeForget 🥀

If you want to read about #Dunster’s war memorials & the men of Dunster who lost their lives in #WW1 you can read more about them on my website 👉🏻 dunsterancestors.co.uk/dunster-war-me… #LestWeForget 🥀

900 followers. 🦋🦋🦋🦋💙 Starter Packs make it easy to follow like-minded groups of people (and be followed), Feeds enable you to view posts on specific areas of interest, mute and (proper) block options let you weed out posts / accounts you don't want to see / interact with.

When you go home, tell them of us and say For your tomorrow, we gave our today. John Maxwell Edmonds. These tiny memorials from the mud are some of the Army and Navy buttons (18th-19th century) I’ve found on the Thames foreshore.

If you're wondering why so many on here are leaving & why we object to the owner of this platform abusing his position here, watch this: youtube.com/watch?v=iX3vMJ…

Users of The National Archives might not realise that while they sleep, this indefatigable little robot fellow trundles randomly and endlessly round the search rooms cleaning the carpet.

11th November marks the end of #WW1 and is a time to remember those who gave their lives. We have fab blog posts highlighting the stories of #Hampshire individuals during this conflict and the life of the VAD nurse Violet Russell: hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/stories/blog/v… hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/stories/blog/v…

Hopefully this will be of interest - there's going to be a strong #LocalHistory element to what we're doing! Joe Saunders BALH springhill historian Society for One-Place Studies 1⃣🏘️🔎 Paul Dryburgh Victoria County History Centre for Regional and Local History

🦋🦋 Update: 11 Nov 2024🦋🦋

Twitter has lost nearly one-fifth of its daily active user base in the U.S. and a whopping one-third in the UK mashable.com/article/elon-m…

The fifth anniversary of our weekly #OnePlaceStudies chat, #OnePlaceWednesday, is being celebrated on Wednesday 20 Nov 2024 over at Bluesky Social. 🎉 Come and join in, and you could win a prize. Full details on our blog: one-place-studies.org/oneplacewednes… #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory