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David Allen Lambert

@dlgenealogist.bsky.social

Chief Genealogist, American Ancestors in Boston, Mass. Lecturer, author, genealogist and military historian.

3,075 Followers  |  1,286 Following  |  409 Posts  |  Joined: 08.11.2024
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05.03.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please join me today in person or virtually today at @Rootstech #Rootstech2026 #RootsTech at 8 am MST / 10 am EST #Genealogy

05.03.2026 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brenda Lambert A fundraising page for Brenda Lambert

PLEASE help with a donation to help my daughter Brenda, aSpecial Needs teacher with her Polar Plunge to help with the Special Olympics fundraise.specialolympicsma.org/participant/...

25.02.2026 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brenda Lambert A fundraising page for Brenda Lambert

A special request to help my daughter Brenda a Special Needs teacher raise money for the #SpecialOlympics by doing a Polar Plunge this Winter. Can you spare $1., $5. or what you can to support her effort to help Special Needs Athletes? I ❀️ my friends!! fundraise.specialolympicsma.org/participants...

13.02.2026 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brenda Lambert A fundraising page for Brenda Lambert

Please support and share for my daughter Brenda a special needs teacher as she takes part in the Polar Plunge to fundraise and support the @specialolympicstn.bsky.social ❀️ Click link below fundraise.specialolympicsma.org/participants...

31.01.2026 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NASA @nasaspaceflight.com might have been going about this the wrong way afterall. Ask a Carnie!

30.01.2026 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ever had to cold call someone for work? #Boston #ColdCall

30.01.2026 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Honored to see longtime friend Ben Edwards today at @americanancestors.bsky.social @bostonhistory.bsky.social - Ben and his family donated a bible over 300 years old, and funds to conserve it for future generations - Thank you Ben!

17.01.2026 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wishing everyone a very #MerryChristmas to all my family, friends and colleagues. Hope Santa was good to all you Boys & Girls young and old.

25.12.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WWII Navy veteran Ira β€˜Ike’ Schab, one of last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, dies at 105 | CNN World War II Navy veteran Ira β€œIke” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105.

Ira "Ike" Schab passes one of the last Pearl Harbor veterans #WWII www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/u... #PearlHarborSurvivor #PearlHarbor

21.12.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seasons Greetings from my Adopted Pup (neighbors dog) - Honestly who doesn't love a @tonyhawk inspired #Christmas Elf ❀️❀️ Send some love for little Denali

21.12.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do you love a specific local #library? Why not give them a shout out and help to destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. Please share and add your own library to the thread!

21.12.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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In honor of my friends and family who celebrate Chanukah and in memory of those who were sadly lost in Australia this weekend #projectmenorah

15.12.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#DickVanDyke was born closer to when #ThomasJefferson and #JohnAdams were alive in 1826 then from his own birth In 1925 to today! #DickVanDyke100

14.12.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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While decorating our #ChristmasTree we located this blast from my past. Yours truly in the First Grade age 6 from 1975 - 50 years ago! Great I am officially an antique to be sold on #eBay #HappyHolidays

13.12.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So thrilled to get another amazing license plate for my collection from a friend. I am trying to add places from all over the world. If you have an old plate you dont need I am willing to give it a good home forever!! Drop me a note and RT

05.12.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals Database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers reveals who fought in the Hundred Years’ War β€” their lives, careers, and hidden social mobility.

Explore a database of over 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals | Archaeology News Online Magazine #Genealogy share.google/gcIfJC1MoIej...

04.12.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Offering my hearty congratulations to my friend, colleague and author Melanie E. McComb @shamrockgen.bsky.social of @americanancestors.bsky.social on her contribution to the scholarship with her chapter in the Genealogica & Heraldica XXXVI just published.

22.11.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spread the word about the exciting new website from @americanancestors.bsky.social to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the #RevolutionaryWar revolutionaryRoots.AmericanAncestors.org RT #RevWar

19.11.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WWI medals among memorabilia stolen on Armistice Day in Carterton Medals belonging to the victim and his grandfather were stolen while the veteran was at Remembrance event.

#WWI medals among memorabilia stolen on Armistice Day in Carterton - BBC News share.google/W4HNHXyAob8A...

17.11.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opening session of #NERGC 2025 in Manchester, N.H. #Genealogy with a keynote by Annette Burke Lyttle, CG

30.10.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fallen D-Day soldier is home in Houston after 81 years thanks to DNA analysis Nicholas Hartman of Houston died in 1944 Allied invasion, but his remains could not be identified until this year. Advances in DNA analysis allowed him to finally be brought home.

A fallen D-Day soldier is 'finally home' in Houston after 81 years thanks to new DNA analysis www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

21.10.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Climate Change Comes for the House of the Seven Gables - Inside Climate News At the edge of Salem’s harbor, caretakers face a race against rising seas and intensifying storms to protect a landmark bound up in America’s literary and colonial past.

The historic 17th century House of the Seven Gables in Salem is in possible peril insideclimatenews.org/news/1210202...

14.10.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Honored to be lecturing tomorrow 10/10 at the 46th Annual #AAHGS at Afro-American Revolutionary Wae Veterans: Finding Ancestors in Pension Files #Genealogy Charleston, SC for @americanancestors.bsky.social and #10MillionNames

09.10.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A New Book Depicts One Vermonter’s Life as a Civil War Soldier Tyler Alexander’s β€˜If I Can Get Home This Fall’ shares a collection of historical letters illuminating what motivated a young Vermonter to fight in the war.

A New History Book Depicts One Vermonter’s Life as a Civil War Soldier www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture...

09.10.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Are you related directly, a niece or nephew or a first or second cousin of a United States commissioned Union #CivilWar Officer? Please contact me regarding a special project. RT

06.10.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Attending the Military Order of the Loyal Legion #MOLLUS 140th Congress held Philadelphia Oct. 3-5, 2025. Honored to be Vice Commander of Massachusetts MOLLUS.

03.10.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do you or a friend have an old license plate you no longer need? For 25 years I have been gifted license plates from all over the globe which line the walls of my garage. Today someone hand delivered a 1976 Newfoundland plate! RT #LicensePlate

01.10.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy 100th Birthday today to @mlb.com player Bobby Shantz #BobbyShantz The last player from the 1940s, and last Philadelphia @athletics.com player. Also played for @yankees.com @pirates.com @cardinals.com @cubsbot.bsky.social @phillies.com and old Colt 45's

26.09.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#RootsTech Registration is now open for 2026!

Attend this incredible conference on March 5-7, 2026 in Salt Lake City, UT. Register at familysearch.org/en/rootstech/

Attending from home and register for #FREE at familysearch.org/en/rootstech/ #FamilySearch
#genealogy #familyhistory

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