Friday, September 30, 2011

If It’s In Print, It’s Always Right, Right? The Tale Of Levi Chapin And A Search For Facts

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Today, the story is all about a man named Levi Chapin – a man you probably never heard of.  The Deacon Levi was one of the many third gr...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

It Must Be Fall: After All, The Fall Issue of “New York Archives” Is Out

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Tag-Teaming Articles Maybe it’s part of that sense of urgency that a lawn now laced with yellow-brown maple leaves brings.    Perhaps it...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Genea-Investors: Is Wall Street Telling Us Anything About "Big Picture" Genealogy?

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Wall Street - No Bull Here’s an interesting point to ponder.   Today, the stock market – both the New York Stock Exchange (known as “the...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Where Was “The Garden of Eden”?: And Are All “Sources” Equal? And Are They Sources At All?

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Adam FirstMan and Eve FirstWoman If you spend much time looking at genealogy stuff online, especially in those places where you can find...
Monday, September 19, 2011

So, What About “English-To-Pirate” Machine Translation?

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Today is September 19 th and therefore, as everybody on this little green Earth knows, it’s “ International Talk Like A Pirate Day ” once a...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Who Owns “Happy Birthday” And Why Good Researchers Should Care

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Sometimes, I get distracted.  Even the best plans for the day can get undone when something really interesting comes across the desk. This ...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Booked Up? So, What’s On A Bookseller’s OWN Bookshelves?

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I am told by close family members that I have an excessively, obscenely large collection of arcane reference books.    Frankly, I don’t c...