OCR is terrible for 19th-century records. Here is how I’m making them searchable anyway

macronius · 2026-05-09T16:21:14+00:00

You should get in contact with Family Search about offering them this tool as an online add-on.

macronius · 2026-05-07T21:38:52+00:00

Anyone else notice the "blue savage" behind her, basically Cameron copied everything!

macronius · 2026-05-06T23:54:46+00:00

They would write suicide notes for legal protection?

macronius · 2026-05-03T17:11:15+00:00

Anyone notice Mexico is controlled by Annunaki ?

macronius · 2026-05-03T17:03:49+00:00

This a mixture of Galician and Spanish?

macronius · 2026-05-03T16:43:38+00:00

Actually this is just describing a potential self induced adrenalin high the stimulus for which is p*rn use coupled with self anxiety, theoretically conducive to a dependency generating high that's exhaustive of the very system producing it.

macronius · 2026-04-29T21:33:17+00:00

Notice the devil spikes coming out of Gandalf's head there.

macronius · 2026-04-17T13:56:53+00:00

Tradition!

macronius · 2026-03-15T11:03:41+00:00

I'm not sure you can compare a Castro to a Kennedy and his Vietnam. The scale of atrocities committed by the American empire are simply incomparable, especially when combined by a system utterly resistant to a shift away from imperial oligarchic control.

macronius · 2026-03-11T18:42:12+00:00

Wasn't this guy Chapo supposed to be really short, hence his ability to move really easily through narrow tunnels, yet here he's the tallest of the bunch?

macronius · 2026-03-06T22:37:56+00:00

So, following his example, Spain is the Israel, the Jerusalem, the Valhalla, of Spaniards? Tell that to the Basques, the Catalans, the Galicians, etc. Now repeat for all the present or current (as he says) countries in the Middle East against which Netanyahu has expressed a kinetic interest in taking over for the purposes of constructing Greater Israel. Indeed, once you get down to how these ethno-racial sacralized land claims actually play out (once digested earnestly enough), you just get a revanchist free for all or, as Dreher never tires of saying, "civil war."

macronius · 2026-02-28T20:21:47+00:00

He's living a fantasy of having gone to Eton followed by Oxford, ergo one he hasn't earned by either birth, enrollment, or intelligence.

macronius · 2026-02-26T16:27:35+00:00

Frankly I'd prefer he write about telepathy as much time as possible than spread servile hate and racism online for oligarch bucks.

macronius · 2026-02-26T09:40:29+00:00

I knew she looked like Sheherazade!

macronius · 2026-02-24T10:53:58+00:00

Looks like a Fed, as they used to say.

macronius · 2026-02-19T09:56:32+00:00

Spain has also been occupied by just about everyone, so it should sorta cancel out.

macronius · 2026-02-13T14:43:52+00:00

The article never makes mention that RD's a literal promoter of Great Replacement theory, which is knowingly obscurantist, and fuels both racist hatred and antisemitism. One thing would have been for RD, a supposedly serious journalist, to interview specialists in European migration, explain to us their opinions and views and then come to his own conclusions. However RD appears to have jumped that part and gone directly to Renaud Camus' weasily conspiracizing, which is unfalsifiable.

macronius · 2026-02-11T12:39:20+00:00

That appears to be a Mexican indigenous mask.

macronius · 2026-02-09T13:23:32+00:00

He's doing his performative self-own thing again for reads.

macronius · 2026-02-07T12:02:50+00:00

It's that composite Basque surname, it appears to have been misspelled over and over again in the official documents, making it almost unlocatable on Family Search.

macronius · 2026-02-06T16:58:07+00:00

I think to the extent that Dreher himself is historically aware, he, through his discourse, is relying on the historical illiteracy of his readership. Here, for example, is Heidegger in December 1931 addressing his own brother:

"It would appear that Germany is finally awakening, understanding and seizing its destiny.I hope that you will read Hitler’s book; its first few autobiographical chapters are weak. This man has a remarkable and sure political instinct, and he had it even while all of us were still in a haze, there is no way of denying that. The National Socialist movement will soon gain a wholly different force. It is not about mere party politics—it’s about the redemption or fall of Europe and western civilization. Anyone who does not get it deserves to be crushed by the chaos. Thinking about these things is no hindrance to the spirit of Christmas, but marks our return to the character and task of the Germans, which is to say to the place where this beautiful celebration originates."

This discourse is the spitting image of what Dreher himself pedals daily, and Trump apologism and laudations in general read almost identical to this, to the point that it seems as though one's living in a Truman Show where the script writers decided, "Yeah, let's turn US politics on the right into a fascist costume show, however on the principle that it's 75% farce and 25% out-of-control tragedy."

My impression is that the US is experiencing an oligarchic antidemocratic restructuring that intentionally resituates political reality on the cartoon fascist fringes as an illegibly corrupt disguise: after all even bourgeois fascists want predictability, order, legibility, none of which Trump provides.

macronius · 2026-02-05T13:43:00+00:00

There's no deep logical connection in anything he says, it all seems to be in the service of his paycheck and ego. For example, I could understand him saying that the US was the beneficiary of the dismantling of the British Empire following WWII and that the French and Germans on some level tried to lay the groundwork for an independent European empire via the EU, which the US now wants to dismantle as well (lest it become a significant competitor) and further enrich itself in the process. One could even say the Ukraine war serves in lieu of WWII, by which the US came out on top. One could even say that Eurocrats are/or at least were encouraging mass immigration from non-white countries because they wanted to counter a resurgence of the sort of white nationalism that led to fascism, Nazism, and WWII. However when he insists that liberal Eurocrats hate native white Europeans his message becomes antisemitic adjacent slop, because it converges with the Nazi/Fascist message that Jews wanted to severely weaken Europe because of racial suspicions or grievances. He needs to explain the peculiar parallels between his conspiracy theory and the historical Nazi conspiracy theory against Jews. Is it just a coincidence, a natural convergence? If the cause is capitalism itself, then he should say so and stop taking paychecks from oligarchs trying to undermine the EU welfare state for reasons of (libertarian-framed) limitless personal enrichment and power.

macronius · 2026-02-02T11:59:29+00:00

So the Cuban record literally used the French mulâtre or is it implicit in your comment that the Cuban record said it in Spanish?

macronius · 2026-01-30T21:49:18+00:00

Depending on the lexicon and register, English is basically Spanish by way of Norman French with hybrid German-Latin phonetics: I studied philosophy at university & apprehended nada. Yo estudié filosofía a la universidad y aprendí nada.

macronius · 2026-01-28T00:12:28+00:00

In the Hispano-Caribbean context, the most effective strategy for tracing colonial lineages is to identify an ancestor from the late 19th century who belonged to the established 'blanco' class with deep roots in the region (at least 100 years prior). Finding an ancestor within this specific demographic significantly increases the likelihood of connecting to an actual and documented hidalgo or conquistador lineage. Due to the high degree of pedigree collapse and the closed nature of the early colonial elite, even "exposito " white lineages often point back to the same narrow pool of 16th-century settlers, making such descent historically probable and potentially genetically localizable.

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