Phil Grass 🇪🇺🕊️

@philgrass.bsky.social

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🇬🇧/🇩🇪 Doing stuff badly since 1965, 48%er, Parent, Hausmann, ex-IT Project Mgr, Gin tester, 🧬PgCert Genealogist.

A Social Media post by the Penny supermarket regarding a special edition toilet paper and for the Deutsche Bahn. “Fürs nächste Mal hätten wir da eine Idee” - We have an idea for next time 🤣
A German civil document recording the death of Franz Johann Jennessen in 1879 in Dülken.
The sarcophagus of Theophanu in Empress in the Church of Saint Pantaleon
A picture of a Volkswagen Car Key with the cover removed, allowing the replacement of the battery
A German genealogical record from 1877, from the collection: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sterberegister 1874-1938. This shows the death of Simon Theodor Tangerding. Some details are simple to read (for example the date at the bottom (13 September 1878). Other text is more complex.
From today's Independent Newspaper. The headline reads "‘Remarkable’ prehistoric elephant bone tool is oldest in Europe, archaeologists reveal". As part of the story is a picture of an utterly unmissable three story country house with the tag "Archaeologists shocked by mystery building complex found by luck"
A chart showing the "Graphical representation of the inferred human population history of southern Africa"
Langende Eis
Lego Phil with an orange pumpkin head.
Screenshot from The Times newspaper. Underneath a picture of an extendable ladder leaned up against the Louvre is the caption “French police think the thieves used an extendable ladder to reach the first floor”. 🤷‍♂️
The 2025 Ancestral Regions update, feature four different places my ancestors are NOT from, namely: the East Midlands, West Midlands, South Wales and Leinster. Oh Ancestry what have you done.
The yDNA haplotree, generated by FamilyTreeDNA c. 30 Sep. 2025
Green tomato chutney, before it’s been boiled to death
A Windows 2000 3.5 inch install diskette.
A baptism record from December 1780 for Johann Adolph Langenfeld, who was baptised at St Dionysius church in Borbeck, Essen.
Stollen, Everywhere.
Bluesky feed featuring the same story on the BBC website about the remains of Aurochs, discovered in a cave in Yorkshire