Obituary for a Quiet Life – “a quiet life isn’t a passive life”

Twins discover they have 65 other siblings across North America – When life hands you 65 unexpected siblings, go to a New Jersey gym and workout on treadmills with them. 🧬☺️

First time I’ve seen a family tree for a book! Canva tool provided to make your own as well! 🌳 📚

Families of England – From Jeremy Singer-Vine – really interesting even if you have no English roots!

The Families of England project, led by economic historians Gregory Clark and Neil Cummins, aims “to reconstruct the economic and social position, and the demography, of a representative set of English families” over time. A recent paper by Clark includes a public version of the dataset, which “details the family connections of 422,374 people with rarer surnames in England for births from 1600 to 2022.” The dataset, based in part on genealogies from the Guild of One-Name Studies, indicates (where available) each person’s years of birth, marriage, and death, plus indicators of literacy, sex, occupational status, and more.

Just reconnected with a 2nd cousin because an email from his bakery (his cake was ready) came to me. Sometimes it’s handy to have an unusual name!

Top Photo Credit: Melinda Young Stuart under Creative Commons license