Daniel Loftus

New starter pack is up! If anyone spots this and is an active poster about #Genealogy, let me know & I'll add you too it. go.bsky.app/GwHgAAF

I’m a lazy amateur genealogist with what may seem like a silly question: how distant do people go when adding to their tree? My ancestors tree runs in the 1000s. I go back & forth on adding anything beyond 6th cousins coming into the present but go further than that going back.

Trying to solve a DNA mystery in my own tree, I have a number of close matches that should help me solve it but I'm at the stage where no matter how much I look at it - the less sense it makes. <screams> #DNA #Genealogy

A reminder that you can add links to websites, blogs etc when you go to edit your profile now! You just need to add a URL and text that acts as a label. Just added mine. 😀 #Genealogy

A reminder that you can add links to websites, blogs etc when you go to edit your profile now! You just need to add a URL and text that acts as a label. Just added mine. 😀 #Genealogy

Malta & Hungary Family History from WW2… any ideas to get at least somewhere online?

The microphones have been on again today! No spoilers! We're almost there now.

And Áine does deliver! She helped me solve a brick wall that helped connect a cluster of my DNA matches to my tree. ✨❤️

And Áine does deliver! She helped me solve a brick wall that helped connect a cluster of my DNA matches to my tree. ✨❤️

🧵1/5 My personal views on #Bessboro I was born there in the early 70’s.#Adopted by a loving father & a cruel mother. My adoptive grandfather was a #paedophile who sexually abused me from the age of 8 until I became pregnant at 12. I miscarried.

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Contrary to politicians & media reports, there's been a continuous ongoing narrative that there are 859 #Bessborough children that haven't been found. If we're going to pursue remembering these infants, we need to be factual. It is in fact, 858. 65 children have been found. 🧵

[reposting with ALT-Text] The story of a mother who worked in #Bessborough, and didn’t leave until the day she died. This post was a long time coming. Read it here: danielloftus.substack.com/p/mabel

I’m begging everyone currently alive to tell at least one other human being where you were born and what your mother’s maiden name is. Apparently this is a lot to ask. #Genealogy

And maybe learn the names of your grandparents while you’re at it. From the death certificates I see where adult children are informants, it’s clear many people don’t know their grandparents’ names.

The "Ancestors Lost by Suicide Commemoration project," led @genealcymru.bsky.social to insights that would help any #familyhistory writer or #genealogist learn to share stories informed by what survivors and prevention advocates. Join our free Sunday livestream: tockify.com/eventscalend...

Census records can reveal names, ages, occupations, birthplaces, and clues about how a family changed over time. For Family Fun Month, test your census knowledge—then tell us: Which census year is your favorite to explore, and what makes it especially useful in your research? #genealogy

Those pre-1880 US census records don't give relationship to head of household. There could be many different realistic scenarios...not just the ones shown here. #genealogy

Question about UK #Genealogy: Where would a Register's Office normally be located? Would they be in Town Hall in a small town? I'm trying to locate where the one in Llandovery would have been located in the 1870s.

🧵1/4 I was born in #Bessboro a #MotherandBabyHome in the 70’s. I am a direct survivor of these cruel ‘homes’. I am also a survivor of #CSA as I was adopted by a woman who had a #paedophile father. My grandfather was a ‘pillar of the community’, to me he was pure evil!

2/4 I endured a cruel childhood, my adoptive mother was cold & unloving. She had suffered the same childhood as I did yet she facilitated the #abuse I endured from my grandfather. #Bessboro is a place where I find solitude, the grounds hold the remains of the missing babies.

3/4 I survived #Bessboro, the missing babies didn’t! I sometimes wish I didn’t survive, I struggle with my past every day but I survived. I want an #IndependentInvestigation of the remaining grounds, a CPO will delay this for years, denying the missing babies their #Justice

4/4 Locating the missing babies must be paramount in any discussions with the Government. To lose sight of this is wrong, self serving & something I cannot & will not support. Do not let the voices who shout the loudest control the narrative of #Bessboro

Wrote this piece about the 1926 Census! Thank you to @familywiseltd.bsky.social for the opportunity! family-wise.co.uk/2026/07/22/t...

99 have been located so far, but the number of people who have behaved with glee finding out they were coffined burials like this is a gotcha that proved their ‘point’ while also ignoring that there were 99 children buried underneath a literal road never fails to surprise me. #MotherandBabyHomes

Tuam excavation team says almost 100 individual remains uncovered so far

This is the story of Patricia Brennan, for those of you who are unaware of it! danielloftus.substack.com/p/slipped-th... #Pelletstown #MotherandBabyHomes #Genealogy

This is the story of Patricia Brennan, for those of you who are unaware of it! danielloftus.substack.com/p/slipped-th... #Pelletstown #MotherandBabyHomes #Genealogy

And now, Patricia appears as a search result on IrishGenealogy.ie! #Genealogy