Stephen J Caraccia

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Hi #GenHour. I have a technical Q. I'm looking at my mtDNA results. Mutations are all recorded AnnnnnD (A is Ancestral, nnnnn is the location, D is the Derived value). Most of the Derived values are upper-case, but some are recorded with lower-case letter e.g. C16259g.What does lower-case indicate ?

I am now quite literally all over the map. There's a pun in there somewhere. 🤪

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You make good choices! 😊

Yeah, no. 🤣

Leigh-on-Sea One-Place Study. Image: A photo of the Old Custom House at Old Leigh, a brick-built, two-storey, three-bay house with sash windows, a blue front door, and what looks like a slate roof with two chimney stacks. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Newly registered with us is Maxine Phillips’ Leigh-on-Sea One-Place Study. Maxine’s interest in this place began when she discovered that a 2x great grandmother was born there in 1848; she is now furthering her research into Old Leigh as a #OnePlaceStudy.

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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

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FindmyPast updates Scottish Roman Catholic records collections From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.

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From The Ashes: The 1922 Irish Public Record Office Fire and Irish Genealogy - Legacy Family Tree Webinars The destruction of the Public Records Office in June 1922 at the outset of the Irish Civil War has cast a long shadow over Irish genealogical research. Anyone who...

Catch David Ryan's @ryangenealogy.bsky.social next webinar, part of his Down Under series this Wednesday! #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #FamilyHistory

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Keep your eyes open for your NYS Inflation Rebate check as they begin going out tomorrow. Amounts range from $150 to $400 for eligible taxpayers that filed a 2023 NYS Tax Return. #TaxSky #TaxTwitter
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You can read my piece below. ⬇️

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Wishing you the happiest of birthdays!! Have an amazing day!! 🎉🎂❤️

Those hints feel like Ancestry's sardonic response to crazy. Only crazy can respond to crazy.

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This one makes me so, so sad.
Rest in Peace, Robert Redford.
Rest in Peace. 💔

It is, once again, September 11. And, once again, it is time to stop, to reflect, to remember... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/09/11/y...

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Are you researching ancestors who lived in what's now Ukraine? There may be records scanned and online, just waiting for you to find them. Here's info abt a new site that may help you locate scanned and online records:
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So great to see you back! I pray for your continued strength and recovery. 🙏

Friendly reminder - CENSUS SEARCH - when you're certain where a family should be living, and they're just not coming up, swap the surname and forename. Just tracked down a family in the 1911 Irish Census using their address which matched 1909 and 1912 birth records. Sure enough, bingo! #Genealogy

I received a handwritten Thank You note in the mail today, and can I just say that in today's f'ed up, impersonal, digital world in which we live, I was truly moved and touched. Think I'll go make some potato salad. ❤️ #PayItForward #Genealogy

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Discounted price on #FindMyPast subscriptions through #LostCousins.
Offer good through 1 Sep 2025.

Looking for members help. Dr Maria Luddy and Dr Judith Harford are writing a book on the experiences of Irish women national school teachers, 1890-1950. They would love to hear from anyone with material such as diaries, letters, photographs, or other artefacts. email judith.harford@ucd.ie.

Revisiting the "Are Your Parents Related Tool" at GEDmatch - The DNA Geek Most cultures have taboos against close relatives marrying (or mating with) one another.  While some royal lineages historically used intra-family marriages…

If you've ever worked a case with closely related parents, you need to read this post now.
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Free access to Canadian and US census records on MyHeritage - Genealogy à la carte To mark Labour Day, MyHeritage is offering free access to all Canadian and American census records, from August 27 to September 2. For Canada, MyHeritage provides national census records starting in 1...

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Free access to US and Canadian censuses from 27 Aug to 2 Sep 2025
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Autumn #Genealogy program from the Appleton Library
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Next: Saturday, 13 Sep 2025 at 2 pm Central US

From tomorrow (28 Aug 2025), Full Text is moving out of FamilySearch labs to become a permanent feature - it will be available in the drop-down 'search' menu. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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