Laura Mattingly

House of Negley A blog about family history research, family heirlooms, and creative ideas for genealogy related materials.

These pictures of my ancestors houses are all that is left of them. The photos will not last forever, either. #genealogy #familyhistory oldtrunkintheattic.blogspot.com/2025/07/hous...

We are into class 2 of the Nebraska State Genealogical Society Annual Conference happening today and tomorrow (4/25 and 426). Tomorrow I present 3 lectures.

Details and registration at nsgs.org/cpage.php?pt...

#genealogy

🤭 @shamrockgen.bsky.social

There are a few hours left to register for Nebraska’s virtual conference with a focus on military records. Great lectures from Brian Rhinehart, civilwarrecords.com & Melanie McComb, @shamrockgen.Baku.social of American Ancestors. You may learn how to find the answers you seek!! Join us!

Impeach him

Restore funding for critical vaccine and infectious disease research! The latest grants canceled by NIH represent millions of dollars in lost funding for projects aimed at improving vaccine access and educating communities. This research is essential to ensuring familie...

Our health is important - I signed: sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...

Still time to get registered for the NSGS virtual conference! Join us in Nebraska without driving thru cornfields 🌽 You don’t want to miss this chance to learn more about military records research. #genealogy #familyhistory

Screenshot of a reddit post on r/fednews that reads: DOGE is at the Institue of Museum and Library Services right now, AM 03/20, to shut down the agency The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE and the new Acting Director (also somehow DepSec of Labor) Keith Sonderling with the express intent to shut it down. Sonderling was sworn-in in the lobby of the office building (955 L'Enfant Plaza) and they are proceeding with quickly and quietly dismantling the agency. There is no major reporting on the death of IMLS. There are Deparment of Homeland Security personnel present - to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to museums and libraries. IMLS offices are on the 4th floor of 955 L'Enfant. There is no media present to document this efficiency saving of .004% of the federal budget. Every library system in the country receives these grants. Museums in every state depend on them. Every penny disbursed is American tax dollars back in American communities. This is one of the 7 federal agencies offered up as a needless sacrificial lamb in the catastrophic resolution and last week's EO.

Screenshot in case the main post gets taken down

Late Friday night, President Trump issued an executive order attempting to dismantle the institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services. This order would harm communities across the country. Millions of people rely on library services and programs supported by IMLS.

Eliminating IMLS would harm ALL Americans who rely on library programs and services, from summer reading programs to library delivery services for older Americans. #ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries

Take action: bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding

Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries

I signed the petition!
In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. www.everylibrary.org/statementiml... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

House in Harvard, NE... maybe A blog about family history research, family heirlooms, and creative ideas for genealogy related materials.

Brushed the dust off my blog. Lots of new-to-me OLD photos to fill the internet with... or SHARE with the world. Imagine the parties in this old house! oldtrunkintheattic.blogspot.com/2025/03/hous... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

This is ridiculous! 😡

Has anyone read Gene Hackman’s book “Escape from Andersonville”? #familyhistory How do you rate it?

Join APG on 2 March for a FREE webinar about the importance of the U.S. National Archives in our profession and how YOU can effectively engage with legislators to support archival access. Open to all; register at bit.ly/4hPJXRg. This presentation is underwritten by Civil War Records.

I’m gonna be a while… #rootstech2025 #genealogy #familyhistory

Please estroy this myth and share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited. #Genealogy #History #Library

Be sure to register for the NE State Genealogy conference held virtually in April! Our focus will be on military records research with Melanie McComb of American Ancestors & Brian Rhinehart of civilwarrecords .com #genealogy #familyhistory #militaryrecords

I don’t like being asked “how far back have you gotten?” Because it doesn’t take into account the details I’ve uncovered. I like being asked “who is the most interesting person…” but that’s hard to answer. 🤣

Registration is now open for the Nebraska State Genealogical Society’s annual conference. Great speakers with a focus on military records. Virtual - no travel & lodging expense! Join us from wherever you are! NSGS.org #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestors #militaryrecords

Right?! As in Ancestry hints leading to a Find A Grave memorial I created.

Betsey Hager Chapter, NSDAR is gearing up to celebrate our centennial in 2026. It will be the cats pajamas!!

Representing the Nebraska State Genealogical Society NSGS.org. Everyone with #Ancestors who came thru Nebraska is invited to see what we have to offer. Information on the 2025 genealogy conference to be announced soon!

Giving a shout out to my local #genealogy society here in central Nebraska, Prairie Pioneer Genealogical Society. A friendly group of people interested in family history.
negenweb.net/NEHall/ppgs/