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Sharn White

@sharnwhite.bsky.social

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Professional family, Local & House Historian, International Speaker, Member of APG, AGRA, Official RootsTech Media Group. Blogger, Love Maps! Based in Australia, hobbies writing, travel and photography. Currently writing a children’s fantasy novel 8-12 🐉

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Nov 17

Don’t forgets to register for RootsTech.

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Sep 24

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Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas) @phavictas.bsky.social · Jun 3

The Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project Team are compiling a list of valuable oral history collections, big and small, in Victoria. To tell them about your precarious oral history collection, visit their website:

precariousoralhistories.com

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Emma Maxwell - Scottish Indexes @scottishindexes.bsky.social · Mar 25

National Records of Scotland (NRS) has completed the return of thousands of documents that were stolen from its archives and from other UK institutions by a single individual between 1949 and 1980. www.nrscotland.gov.uk/latest-news/...

#history #Genealogy #archives

Return of documents after historical thefts

NRS has completed the return of thousands of documents taken from its archives and several other institutions by a single person decades ago.

www.nrscotland.gov.uk

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Emma Maxwell - Scottish Indexes @scottishindexes.bsky.social · Jun 10

I had to search over 70 dusty archive boxes to find these cases! Great to be part of #WDYTYA.

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Mar 8

Looking for ancestors who travelled? RootsTech 2025 has you covered

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Check out this insightful class on ship manifests! 🚢 Learn how to trace your ancestors through detailed records. Watch it at 3:00 pm MST—https://t.co/5CKGJECRib

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Feb 18

Watch the latest episode of the Road to RootsTech …. the Theme Song is revealed.

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Feb 14

Adding new individuals to the Familysearch tree and The Road to RootsTech #RootsTech2025

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Feb 12

More exciting RootsTech 2025 Keynote Speakers

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Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) @apgenealogists.bsky.social · Jan 31

APG is pleased to be a sponsor of RootsTech 2025, the world's largest family history and technology conference. Join us from 6-8 March 2025 in Salt Lake City, Utah, or virtually! Register at rootstech.org #RootsTech202

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Dec 24

Wishing family and friends, near and far, a very Merry Christmas 🎄🩷

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · Dec 10

Two new qualifications in genetic genealogy are launching at the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS) in late spring 2025. Written and taught by AGRA Member Sophie Kay. https://buff.ly/4gfiR4J

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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · Dec 10

📢 New Episode 📢

The fifth episode of The Shropshire Witches Podcast is now live. In this episode, we explore the history and enduring legacy of The Workhouse. The human aspect of this episode made this difficult to record, but we believe it is so important.

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#Shropshire

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Dec 10

Posting so I can remember the title and look for this book! #memorials #middlesexgenealogy

Mill Hill Historical Society @mhhistsoc.bsky.social · Dec 10

"Memorials of Middlesex" (1909) on Edgware and Hendon (St Mary's) churches

By John Tavenor Perry

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Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social · Dec 10

🎄✨Celebrate Christmas with SoG!
🎁 Cribs, Cards and Christingles – Discover the Origins of Christmas Traditions with Mark Lewis
📅 Sat 14 Dec, 10:30
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🍽️ Forgotten Festive Fare with Paul Couchman, The Regency Cook
📅 Fri 13 Dec, 14:00
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Kenneth Marks @marksology.bsky.social · Dec 10

#genealogy

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Dec 10

Sounds a good way to spend an afternoon to me!

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Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social · Dec 3

The co-winners of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize are Marlene Daut for “Awakening the Ashes” (@uncpress.bsky.social) & Sara Johnson for “Encyclopédie Noire:” (OIEAHC and UNC)!!!!!!!!
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Yale Announces 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners

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Paul Chiddicks @chiddickstree.bsky.social · Nov 26

One of the best podcasts around have a listen to this wonderful collection of stories so beautifully told 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 #Genealogy

the airing cupboard Podcast @theairingcupboard.bsky.social · Nov 12

Episode 52 is out.

Set in Kent England, on the banks of the Medway river, this story is about a friendship between a young woman and an unusual man, a village pub, an old Thames barge and the bond between a man and his dog...

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Apple Podcasts, Spotify

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · Nov 24

Hello, new followers! You might like my book, ANCESTOR TROUBLE, if you're interested in family history, genealogy, mental health, generational trauma, systemic harms, and spiritual practices around ancestors and our alienation from those practices in Western modernity. maudnewton.com/book/ancesto...

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Ancestor Trouble was a book of the year per New Yorker, NPR, Washington Post, and more; a finalist for the John Leonard Prize; a NYT Editors’ Choice selection; and a Roxane Gay Book Club pick.

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Nov 25

My g g g grandmother immigrated alone to Australia from Germany and married shortly after arrival having a baby 5 months later. She had given birth a year earlier in Germany to a baby girl who died - father unknown. Her sibling remained in Germany and no clue there as to the father. #genealogy

Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Nov 25

I completely agree with you. I was explaining NPE to someone and felt I should use both used terms. I prefer Not Parent Expected as well but both are frequently used by different people. #DNA

Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Nov 25

Jan apologies - I meant to say Non Paternal Event 😵‍💫

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Nov 24

My blogging has fallen behind over the past year. M hoping to be inspired by the A-Z challenge in the New Year. Still using Blogger. # blogging #familyhistory #genealogy #localhistory #househistory

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Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social · Nov 24

NPE is Not Paternal Event or Not Parent Expected. My German GGG grandfather was not the biological father of my g g grandfather. On a mission to discover through #DNA who was. #genealogy

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Dawn Piercy, PhD 🧬 @qdee.bsky.social · Nov 22

This may help too! I placed the direct registration link here, I hope it helps some! dpfamilytree.family.blog/2024/09/25/r...
#rootstech25 #openregistration

Roots Tech 2025 Pre-Registration is Now Open

It’s here! Pre-registration is now open for Roots Tech 2025!!! March 6-8.

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