Sunday, October 23, 2011

Hallowe'en Decorations, Books, and Rev. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's - All Together in One Swell Foop!

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PUMPKIN!!!! In less than a week and a half, Hallowe’en will be upon us. Mrs. Blogger will celebrate the annual return of industrial-size...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

Public Libraries Are Free; So, Does That Mean They Don't Cost Anybody Anything?

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Lots of folks took the time to read the last post here about libraries and books.  And, as I suspected, real books still matter to lots of f...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Everything! We’re Genealogists! We Want Everything! Free! Online! Whaddaya Mean You Pulped It???

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Today was a “book” day.   I’ve been choosing and packing books for our vendor exhibit space at the Connecticut Society of Genealogists annu...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

Censuses Behaving Badly: The Case of the Two Therman Lockharts

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Ennis, McDowell County, West Virginia has never been much of a metropolis.   In a “Coal Country” county with few roads and lots of sparsel...
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

"Redactio Ad Absurdum"? Can't Tell You: It's Classified

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One of the many advantages of having received a university education outside the United States and in a country that is officially bilingual...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Working In the Garden of Genealogy: Farmers or Field Hands?

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Over at Marian Pierre-Louis’s blog Roots and Rambles , there’s a discussion going on about the market for professional genealogists and othe...
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Our Storied Lives And Our Big Box Of Hats

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Stories are like hats.  Look around and you’ll notice that most people don’t wear hats anymore.  Except, perhaps, when it’s too cold to go ...
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