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Tiffany Chu's personal newsletter reflects on family, diaspora experience and sorrow, alongside practical notes on journaling, simplifying life and digital habits. Readers get candid, reflective personal essays and book-related musings from a writer tied to a recent book launch.
A family and local history blog that reconstructs the life of Gedulla Menko, a Hengelo Jewish woman who later made Aliyah, using her 1958 Yad Vashem testimony and archival sources. It also covers the 1950s Maccabi Rehovot handball tours of the Netherlands and their links to the Jewish communities that hosted the players.
A personal essay newsletter where the writer reflects on memory, family diaries and inherited objects, pairing personal recollection with historical research. Issues read as slow, carefully researched object histories and meditations on what people keep and lose.
A genealogy blog following the Collver family through archival records, census entries, and county histories, with each post tracing a single ancestor or branch. It suits readers interested in tracing their own family history and in how researchers use primary sources to resolve confused identities.
Explains practical methods for family historians to use AI responsibly in genealogy research, including keeping a dated Making Log, organizing a Research Brain folder, and applying the Find/Work Test to avoid invented records. Issues are structured explainers tied to a named toolkit and framework.
A Pennsylvania genealogy resource with guides to vital records, courthouses, archives, probate, land, military and immigration records across all 67 counties. Recent issues use anniversary years (1876, 1926, 1976) as hooks to show which records survive and how to research ancestors in each period.
A family podcast that reads and discusses the letters of Mattie, a Minnesota homemaker, during World War II, episode by episode in near real time. Listeners get household life on the home front, local history of Minneapolis places, and the family's personal dramas and rationing details.
A genealogical history newsletter that publishes biographical profiles of members of the Påhlman, Påhlman and von Pohlmann family, drawing on archival records, military rolls and historical sources. Each issue tells the life story of one ancestor, often including court records, battles and family relationships.
Personal newsletter by a software engineer and photographer mixing practical deployment guides (such as zero-config Next.js deployment with Kamal to a VPS) with personal reflections on travel, family history and preservation. Readers get a mix of step-by-step technical tutorials and candid personal essays.
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