The Past, Still Present
Substacknewsletter · by Fran Davis
Genealogy as psychological archaeology: stories of silence, survival, and what families carry forward.
- Audience
- Not shown publicly
- We show a dash rather than guess
- Observed frequency
- Every two weeks
- From 5 posts indexed in the last 90 days
- Last post
- Oct 4, 2026
- 38 days ago
- Likely audience
- family historians
- Inferred from post content
The Past, Still Present is a Substack newsletter by Fran Davis covering family history and genealogy, inherited objects and sentimental clutter and AI-assisted family research. NewsletterFIT indexed 5 posts from it in the last 90 days, most recently on Oct 4, 2026.
Topics
- family history and genealogy
- inherited objects and sentimental clutter
- AI-assisted family research
- Notion for personal knowledge management
- intergenerational scarcity habits
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