Sunday, March 25, 2012

The 1940 Census Release and Yesterday’s Census 1940 Program at NYPL

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I was in New York City yesterday, speaking at a special event at the New York Public Library (above).  The New York Genealogical and Biog...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The Law of Serendipitous Convergences and Irish Emigration to Everywhere

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A number of years ago, when I devised the eponymously named “ Wolfgang’s Law of Serendipitous Convergences ”, it referred mostly to the fact...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

A Thought About Birthdays and The “Where Were You Born?” Question

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Midwife-assisted Childbirth Yesterday was my birthday.  That got me thinking. For genealogists, finding and documenting the answer t...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Madeline Frances Hunter (25 December 1917 - 11 March 2012)

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You may have noticed that things have been quiet here for a while.  There's a reason for that, explained in the story below.  In a nutsh...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

We’re The Government, It’s Our Stuff and We Want It Back! The Issue Of Replevin

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A few days ago, when I wrote about the “secret archive” of Major Thomas Thompson Eckert of the War Department’s Telegraph Office being pu...
Friday, January 27, 2012

The Wired Mr. Lincoln and The Secret Civil War

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One of the treasures of the New York State Library’s collection is Abraham Lincoln’s own handwritten first draft of the Emancipation Proclam...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

When The Good Guys Do The Right Thing, Everyone Comes Out On Top

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Every once in a while, things fall into place and the good guys do the right thing.  Then everybody wins. Yesterday, my copy of The Manu...