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Genoese Myths Unravel: DNA Hints at Galician Roots for Explorer

New DNA research from April 2026 suggests Christopher Columbus's family may be from Galicia, Spain, challenging the long-held belief he was from Genoa, Italy.

#ChristopherColumbus, #DNA, #SpanishHistory, #Galicia, #HistoricalResearch

https://newsletter.tf/dna-study-columbus-spain-ancestry-galicia/

New DNA findings suggest Christopher Columbus's family may be from Spain, not Italy. This is a big change from what people have believed for many years.

#ChristopherColumbus, #DNA, #SpanishHistory, #Galicia, #HistoricalResearch
https://newsletter.tf/dna-study-columbus-spain-ancestry-galicia/

Shoqan Walikhanov helped put the Kazakh steppe on the map of world scholarship https://ow.ly/n3VR50YWbm5 #History #ShoqanWalikhanov #KazakhHistory #CentralAsiaHistory #WorldScholarship #HistoricalResearch

Shoqan Walikhanov: Kazakh Scho...

In the meantime, take a look at our upcoming events on our website: www.ghil.ac.uk/event... #historicalresearch #historylecture #studyhistory #europeanhistory 2/3

Today a bit of #Advertising for the new issue of "Hessischen Genealogie ( #Hessian #Genealogy ), the journal of @HfV_eV, #Familienkunde Nassau and GFKW:

https://shop.odw-verlag.de/Hessische-Genealogie-1-2026

It includes “#Lampertheim emigrants to #Chillicothe”, an article by me about the #History of the #Migration of around 400 #Refugees from my #Hometown to the former #Capital of #Ohio, #USA.

#FamilyHistory #Hessia #Germany #America #Emigration #GermanEmigration #LocalHistory #GermanSettlers #HistoricalResearch

I've been adding historical information and documents into Logseq for the past few weeks. I just add a little bit each evening, and create back-links, and proofread things. It parallels nicely with my work in QGIS.

What a really interesting learning project for me. Fun stuff.

Here is what the "Graph View" looks like so far.

#Logseq #QGIS #OpenSource #HistoricalResearch #NorthwesternPacificRailway #NorthPacificCoastRailway #NiagaraEscarpment
#SonomaCounty
#MarinCounty
#OntarioCanada

I've been adding historical information and documents into Logseq for the past few weeks. I just add a little bit each evening, and create back-links, and proofread things. It parallels nicely with my work in QGIS.

What a really interesting learning project for me. Fun stuff.

Here is what the "Graph View" looks like so far.

#Logseq #QGIS #OpenSource #HistoricalResearch #NorthwesternPacificRailway #NorthPacificCoastRailway #NiagaraEscarpment
#SonomaCounty
#MarinCounty
#OntarioCanada

I've been adding historical information and documents into Logseq for the past few weeks. I just add a little bit each evening, and create back-links, and proofread things. It parallels nicely with my work in QGIS.

What a really interesting learning project for me. Fun stuff.

Here is what the "Graph View" looks like so far.

#Logseq #QGIS #OpenSource #HistoricalResearch #NorthwesternPacificRailway #NorthPacificCoastRailway #NiagaraEscarpment
#SonomaCounty
#MarinCounty
#OntarioCanada

I've been adding historical information and documents into Logseq for the past few weeks. I just add a little bit each evening, and create back-links, and proofread things. It parallels nicely with my work in QGIS.

What a really interesting learning project for me. Fun stuff.

Here is what the "Graph View" looks like so far.

#Logseq #QGIS #OpenSource #HistoricalResearch #NorthwesternPacificRailway #NorthPacificCoastRailway #NiagaraEscarpment
#SonomaCounty
#MarinCounty
#OntarioCanada

I've been adding historical information and documents into Logseq for the past few weeks. I just add a little bit each evening, and create back-links, and proofread things. It parallels nicely with my work in QGIS.

What a really interesting learning project for me. Fun stuff.

Here is what the "Graph View" looks like so far.

#Logseq #QGIS #OpenSource #HistoricalResearch #NorthwesternPacificRailway #NorthPacificCoastRailway #NiagaraEscarpment
#SonomaCounty
#MarinCounty
#OntarioCanada

#medievalmonday #medievalhistory #middleages #medievalgermany #historicalresearch #medievalsky #academicsky #skystorians 5/5

Glad to have the opportunity to join online the conference on #DataEthics for #HistoricalResearch
A first poll did already show the 🔑 word for the next days: transparency, responsibility, accessibility, data bias, power + care ➡️ Looking forward to learning more on these topics!

Programme: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/Data-Ethics/

Thank you @IEG @NFDI4Memory

#mediahistory #colonialhistory #mediastudies #historiography #historicalresearch #researchblog #historyblog #skystorians 3/3

Michael Grünbart (Universität Münster), and Simon MacLean (University of St Andrews). 📝 #medievalsky #historysky #skystorians #medievalhistory #middleages #studyhistory #historyphd #historicalresearch 3/3

It's the best way to stay connected with us and keep up to date with what's happening over the next few weeks! 📬 A new newsletter will go out next week... Subscribe now: www.ghil.ac.uk/subsc... #historicalresearch #skystorians #studyhistory #historyphd #londonlibrary #historysky 2/2

Marre des clichés du Moyen Âge sauce blockbuster ? Moi aussi. Aidez-moi à les démonter 🔨 Répondez à mon questionnaire 👇
https://sphinxdeclic.com/tiny/a/19xfuzix
#MiddleAges #Medieval #Cinema #Film #TVSeries #History #MedievalHistory #HistoricalResearch #PhDResearch #Thesis #Culture #Heritage

Real talk… if you don’t answer my survey, I’ll show up at your place and blast Nickelback on loop until your soul leaves your body. 🎸
👉 5 minutes of eternal peace here: https://sphinxdeclic.com/tiny/a/19xfuzix
Do it for science… and for your sanity. 🎓
#MiddleAges #Medieval #Cinema #Film#NoDragonsRequired #5MinuteQuest #DoItForScience#TVSeries #History #MedievalHistory #HistoricalResearch #PhDResearch #Thesis #Culture #Heritage #WomenInPower #Queens #Warriors #Armor #Battle #War #MedievalCinema #HistoricalMovies

⏳ I still need 150 responses to reach a representative quota and give real weight to my survey 🎓

Huge thanks to everyone who takes 5–10 minutes to fill it out 🙏

👉 https://sphinxdeclic.com/tiny/a/4o52qhwh

#MiddleAges #Medieval #Cinema #Film #TVSeries #History #HistoricalResearch #PhDResearch #Culture #Heritage #HistoricalMovies #MedievalCinema

#cfa #historicalresearch #studyhistory #historyphd #phdresearch #researchabroad #skystorians #historysky 3/3

College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history - A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak ... - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/ai-built-from-1800s-texts-surprises-creator-by-mentioning-real-1834-london-protests/ #computationalarchaeology #largelanguagemodels #digitalarchaeology #historicalresearch #machinelearning #languagemodels #timecapsulellm #aidevelopment #londonhistory #historicalai #victorianera #ai

Wishing everyone a happy bank holiday weekend! ☀️ Our doors may be closed for the moment, but you can stay up-to-date with our work by subscribing to the GHIL newsletter: www.ghil.ac.uk/subsc... #bankholidayweekend #historicalresearch #johnnash #architecture

Taking stock of academic research projects and papers in progress https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/taking-stock-of-academic-research-projects-and-papers-in-progress/ #Academia #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #History

🔍🎣 Breaking news: After 250 years, Captain Cook's ship is found! Too bad the article is as accessible as the ship itself 🕵️‍♂️🚫. 405 error: The only discovery here is the art of disappointment. 🛳️💥
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/captain-cook-missing-ship-found-hms-endeavour-b2771322.html #CaptainCookFound #Disappointment404 #ShipwreckDiscovery #HistoricalResearch #HackerNews #ngated

Do #Bible #Scholars Just Make Stuff Up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYkiQkF0ds

#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #HistoricalEvidence #AncientBooks #Exvangelical #Skeptic #Atheist #Agnostic

The most misunderstood Bible verse? All scripture?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUytpJ8c9OU

#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #HistoricalEvidence #AncientBooks

The unexpected path to historical research: While covering Spanish Camp for a local newspaper in 1997, I learned about Dorothy Day's connection to Tottenville.

While researching Tottenville, I discovered Benjamin Franklin Joline's 1950 self-published history beginning in 1668. Suddenly the street names I knew became real historical figures!

https://www.amazon.com/Century-Tottenville-History-Comes-Alive/dp/B08WK2LD44

#HistoricalResearch #ResearchJourney #LocalHistory #CatholicHistory #DorothyDay #DiscoveringHistory #TottenvilleHistory

📚 Have you discovered 17th Century Tottenville History Comes Alive? My book explores this small Staten Island community within the context of NY and US history.

This isn't academic dry text, but a living history that connects street names to the families who built the community. #LocalHistory #NewYorkHistory #StatenIsland #TottenvilleHistory #HistoricalResearch #IndiePublishing

Get your copy: https://www.amazon.com/Century-Tottenville-History-Comes-Alive/dp/B08WK2LD44

Orphan tsunami of 1700–Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in America (2015)

https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/pp1707

#HackerNews #OrphanTsunami1700 #JapaneseEarthquake #HistoricalResearch #NaturalDisasters #USGS

🚀 Don't miss this! Lunchbreak @NFDI4Memory Incubator Funds – 25.03.2025, Prof. Dr. Werner Scheltjens will present the project "Building and Providing a Benchmark Dataset of Historical Tables (1750-1990)." 🏛📊

The goal? Creating a representative dataset of historical tables to develop AI-based solutions for text and data recognition. 🔍

📅 When? Tuesday, 25.03.2025, 12:30-13:30 CET (online)

More info: https://4memory.de/2025/03/19/lunchbreak-4memory-incubator-funds-25-03-2025/

#DigitalHistory #AI #DataScience #HistoricalResearch #NFDI4Memory

5 Messed Up #Bible Details -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-8BgASPom4

#exvangelical #deconstruction #ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #SUNDAYSCHOOL

Hidden Secrets of the Voynich Manuscript Revealed Through Cutting-Edge Scans https://www.medievalists.net/2024/09/hidden-secrets-of-the-voynich-manuscript-revealed-through-cutting-edge-scans/ #VoynichManuscript #HistoryBuff #HistoricalResearch

"When one of Greg’s students ... decided to make himself a replica of the armor that Alexander the Great is shown wearing on the famous “Alexander Mosaic” from Pompeii, none of us realized that the next six years of our lives would be dominated by the quest to understand and evaluate that armor."

#Linen #linothorax #AncientGreeks #PeriodArmour #HistoricalResearch #History

https://jhupress.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/unraveling-the-linothorax-mystery-or-how-linen-armor-came-to-dominate-our-lives/

Crikey. Just spotted that the Edinburgh General Session church records include an Edinburgh weather report for 1815-1820. Very detailed! National Records of Scotland volume CH2/131/2. Free to view online at ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk. #Edinburgh #Scotland #19thCentury #NineteenthCentury #Archive #Archives #HistoricalResearch #Weather #ScottishWeather #BritishWeather #Meteorology #ChurchRecords #Kirk #ChurchOfScotland #NRS #NationalRecordsOfScotland #History #ScottishHistory

Found Melrose kirk session minutes at ScotlandsPeople include lists of schoolmasters 1768-1854 parish by parish in Presbytery of Chirnside. Whole bunch of Berwickshire places! Melrose isn't even in Berwickshire 😜 Likely paper records muddling in Scottish Record Office / National Records of Scotland. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #School #Schools #History #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #ScotlandsPeople #Archive #Archives #HistoricalResearch #Berwickshire #Melrose #Roxburghshire #Scotland

Wish my brain would stop thinking "I'll just look up another 16th/17th century testament (will and/or inventory) to study in ScotlandsPeople" when the website is still down! Hope it comes back ok after latest upgrade / revamp. And hope it's not as disastrous as some other website revamps inc SP. #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #Scotland #History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #ScotlandsPeople #website #websites #16thCentury #17thCentury #SixteenthCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Wills #Inventories

Wish my brain would stop thinking "I'll just look up another 16th/17th century testament (will and/or inventory) to study in ScotlandsPeople" when the website is still down! Hope it comes back ok after latest upgrade / revamp. And hope it's not as disastrous as some other website revamps inc SP. #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #Scotland #History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #ScotlandsPeople #website #websites #16thCentury #17thCentury #SixteenthCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Wills #Inventories

Wish my brain would stop thinking "I'll just look up another 16th/17th century testament (will and/or inventory) to study in ScotlandsPeople" when the website is still down! Hope it comes back ok after latest upgrade / revamp. And hope it's not as disastrous as some other website revamps inc SP. #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #Scotland #History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #ScotlandsPeople #website #websites #16thCentury #17thCentury #SixteenthCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Wills #Inventories

Wish my brain would stop thinking "I'll just look up another 16th/17th century testament (will and/or inventory) to study in ScotlandsPeople" when the website is still down! Hope it comes back ok after latest upgrade / revamp. And hope it's not as disastrous as some other website revamps inc SP. #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #Scotland #History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #ScotlandsPeople #website #websites #16thCentury #17thCentury #SixteenthCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Wills #Inventories

Wish my brain would stop thinking "I'll just look up another 16th/17th century testament (will and/or inventory) to study in ScotlandsPeople" when the website is still down! Hope it comes back ok after latest upgrade / revamp. And hope it's not as disastrous as some other website revamps inc SP. #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #Scotland #History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #ScotlandsPeople #website #websites #16thCentury #17thCentury #SixteenthCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Wills #Inventories

Time for genealogical research. First to check the Leeds Catholic registers of baptisms, for my granddad and his siblings (baptised Catholic due to their Irish Mum). Then Scotland, and Melrose, to browse the 19th century communion rolls, and figure out when my maternal ancestors moved into the town. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Leeds #Melrose #WestYorkshire #Roxburghshire #ScottishBorders #historicalResearch #Catholic #ChurchOfScotland #Kirk #BaptismRegisters #CommunionRolls #Ireland #Migration

My blog post about 19th century Scottish passport records held by Edinburgh City Archives and digitised by Ancestry. Musings on their use for genealogists and academic historians. And marvelling at my ggg-granddad's Paris trip. https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/19th-century-scottish-passport-records/ #tourism #travel #nineteenthCentury #19thCentury #archive #archives #historicalResearch #genealogy #familyHistory #ScottishHistory #Edinburgh #Paris #academicHistory #Ancestry #ECA #EdinburghCityArchives #ScottishBorders #Kelso

A Cartography Of Loss In The Borderlands - Mexicali’s Colorado River Family Album Documents What Is No More.
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https://www.hcn.org/articles/a-cartography-of-loss-at-the-borderlands/ <-- shared article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #art #ColoradoRiver #hydrology #water #waterresources #change #Mexico #Mexicali #border #California #USWest #arid #ColoradoRiverBasin #delta #artists #memories #history #environmentaleducation #historicaldata #historicalresearch #waterbodies

Nice introduction to Archives Portal Europe by Anna Batzeli: https://bit.ly/3SJS0F8

I am happy to see that this huge endeavour, which was started 15 years ago by a team of professionals from several European national archival institutions (including yours truly), is still going strong 🙂

#Archieven #Archives #History #HistoricalResearch @histodons

Browsing the #Hawick parish #kirkSession minutes online. Serious yikes at this handwriting from 1821. Not happy making. #Palaeography #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NineteenthCentury #19thCentury

Happy to be sitting up doing some more old document reading. And thank goodness again for easy colour/balance graphics processing software to make it more readable! Here a testament testamentar (Scottish will and inventory) from 1648. #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Will #Wills #Inventory #Inventories #Testament #Testaments #Palaeography #GraphicsProcessing #GraphicSoftware

Checking the National Records of Scotland web catalogue is reminding me again how much I wish it allowed wildcards or fuzzy name searches. Searching for someone called Fowler circa 1600 - even a courtier whose job was writing stuff (secretary for the queen) - requires a lot of variant name searches! #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #NRS #Archives #Catalogues #Catalogs #Search #Histodon #Histodons

Checking the National Records of Scotland web catalogue is reminding me again how much I wish it allowed wildcards or fuzzy name searches. Searching for someone called Fowler circa 1600 - even a courtier whose job was writing stuff (secretary for the queen) - requires a lot of variant name searches! #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #NRS #Archives #Catalogues #Catalogs #Search #Histodon #Histodons

Checking the National Records of Scotland web catalogue is reminding me again how much I wish it allowed wildcards or fuzzy name searches. Searching for someone called Fowler circa 1600 - even a courtier whose job was writing stuff (secretary for the queen) - requires a lot of variant name searches! #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #NRS #Archives #Catalogues #Catalogs #Search #Histodon #Histodons

Checking the National Records of Scotland web catalogue is reminding me again how much I wish it allowed wildcards or fuzzy name searches. Searching for someone called Fowler circa 1600 - even a courtier whose job was writing stuff (secretary for the queen) - requires a lot of variant name searches! #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #NRS #Archives #Catalogues #Catalogs #Search #Histodon #Histodons

Checking the National Records of Scotland web catalogue is reminding me again how much I wish it allowed wildcards or fuzzy name searches. Searching for someone called Fowler circa 1600 - even a courtier whose job was writing stuff (secretary for the queen) - requires a lot of variant name searches! #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #NRS #Archives #Catalogues #Catalogs #Search #Histodon #Histodons