Paula W
@toomuchbrudders.bsky.social
Happily retired. Voracious reader 📚💙(inherited Folio Society collection), family-tree researcher/storyteller ☘️, TooMuchBrudders.com family blogger. Married to 5th generation farmer. My grandson calls me Goose. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
Here’s the same spot, back in May. Many visitors. 😊
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Here’s the same spot, back in May. Many visitors. 😊
Just like the Jetsons! 🚀
a cartoon of a person handing another person a wallet full of money
Alt: a cartoon of a person handing another person a wallet full of money
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November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Just like the Jetsons! 🚀
Here’s a trunk load of them: toomuchbrudders.com/2021/01/15/b... #FamilyHistory 🎩👒
Bows and chapeaux | A century of hats | Too Much Brudders blogs
When it's Hats Day, you roll out photos of family members in their hats. Some stylish, some practical, some silly. Over a century's worth!
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November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Here’s a trunk load of them: toomuchbrudders.com/2021/01/15/b... #FamilyHistory 🎩👒
Lucky me - that’s how I grew up! 📚💙 toomuchbrudders.com/2023/04/29/t... #library
The library | Too Much Brudders blog
What a beautiful library we enjoyed growing up in Pittsfield! A decade earlier, Mom and her sister, Bunny, worked in New Haven's library.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Lucky me - that’s how I grew up! 📚💙 toomuchbrudders.com/2023/04/29/t... #library
It had logged me off yesterday evening, but I didn’t have any trouble logging back in through Ancestry.
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It had logged me off yesterday evening, but I didn’t have any trouble logging back in through Ancestry.
#3 Through a Find A Grave message, I connected with a second cousin, who shared his aunt’s writings about our shared great-grandmother: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/06/08/a... #genealogy
Annie, we hardly knew ye | Too Much Brudders blog
Annie Cassidy didn't have it easy. None of her seven children died from want of care, though, as she told granddaughter Jean back in the '40s.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#3 Through a Find A Grave message, I connected with a second cousin, who shared his aunt’s writings about our shared great-grandmother: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/06/08/a... #genealogy
#2 Through this “new” third cousin, I finally realized the letters to my grandmother from “Willie” were from her cousin in Ireland: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/06/23/m... ☘️
My Dear Mrs. Cassidy | Too Much Brudders blog
A 1963 air-mail letter to my grandma from her Irish cousin Willie begins with a charming salutation: "My Dear Mrs. Cassidy."
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November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#2 Through this “new” third cousin, I finally realized the letters to my grandmother from “Willie” were from her cousin in Ireland: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/06/23/m... ☘️
#1 I found an Irish third cousin I didn’t even know I had! Actually, he found me: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/05/25/a... ☘️ #IrishGenealogy #FamilyHistory
A Tuesday wedding in 1852 | Too Much Brudders blog
Still in shock to have found the hand-written church registry listing my Irish great-great grandparents' wedding day in 1852.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
#1 I found an Irish third cousin I didn’t even know I had! Actually, he found me: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/05/25/a... ☘️ #IrishGenealogy #FamilyHistory
I found an Irish third cousin I didn’t even know I had! Actually, he found me: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/05/25/a... ☘️ #IrishGenealogy #FamilyHistory
A Tuesday wedding in 1852 | Too Much Brudders blog
Still in shock to have found the hand-written church registry listing my Irish great-great grandparents' wedding day in 1852.
toomuchbrudders.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I found an Irish third cousin I didn’t even know I had! Actually, he found me: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/05/25/a... ☘️ #IrishGenealogy #FamilyHistory
Narnia is always worth another visit.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Narnia is always worth another visit.
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Well … me, for one. 😉
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Well … me, for one. 😉
A banned book - all those years ago. 📚💙
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
A banned book - all those years ago. 📚💙
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
☘️ Irish immigrant Joseph Malachy Regan, my great-grandfather, raised horses for sulky racing in New Haven, Connecticut. #FamilyHistory #IrishGenealogy
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
☘️ Irish immigrant Joseph Malachy Regan, my great-grandfather, raised horses for sulky racing in New Haven, Connecticut. #FamilyHistory #IrishGenealogy