Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Train Day for Me Today - and a MAJOR Genealogy Event for Your Consideration

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Amtrak's LakeShore Limited I spent a good part of the day traveling via Amtrak, down and back up the Hudson River corridor between A...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Me and the NYSAPT: Another Deadline Met!

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That Big Bridge in Brooklyn My next article for the New York State Archives Partnership Trust quarterly magazine was sent off today. ...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Masks, Myth, Memory and Family History

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An Actor Considers the Mask He'll Wear Driving back from conferences usually provides ample time for reflection on “the big picture” ...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Buddy, Could You Spare A Petabit?

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It’s always a good day when I learn a new word.  Today’s new word was PETABIT . 15th century table abacus Frankly, the thought of it s...
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"All Your Base Are Belong To Us": Ancestry.com to Accquire Footnote.com

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Genealogy juggernaut Ancestry.com , now a publicly held company trading on NASDAQ as ACOM for about 22 bucks and change as I write, will be ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

"Lutherans, Mormons and the Estonian State Archives" - from the Bad News Might Also Be Good News Department

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About three weeks ago, Baltic Reports , the website that reports the daily news from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had an interesting st...
Monday, September 20, 2010

A Check of The Genealogical Calendar Reveals - It's Almost Lobster Day!

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Here in the great Northeast, the “Official Genealogical Year” tends to be rather short; it’s only about 6 and a half months long, give or ta...