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Monday, February 8, 2016

From Confusion to Conclusion: How to Write Proof Arguments! at GRIP

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This summer -- July 22-27 at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh -- Kimberly Powell and I will again be coordinating a week-l...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Try to remember . . .

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The science-fiction writer who coined the term "cyberspace" reflects on how difficult it is to recapture a world without telev...
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Friday, January 22, 2016

The genealogy of fairy tales

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From 3 Quarks Daily , one of the great aggregator sites, I learned that numerous stories have been traced back thousands of years -- "n...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Looking back on 2015 writing and prospects for 2016

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Last year, with the help of kind editors and colleagues, I published a dozen genealogy articles (four in peer-reviewed journals) and six boo...
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Reading Two Top Genealogy Books Together

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The best two books for serious genealogists are Thomas W. Jones's Mastering Genealogical Proof   and Robert Charles Anderson's Eleme...
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Friday, November 20, 2015

Thorough research in city directories, one quick example

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I recently had occasion to compare physical and virtual city directory holdings. The results for this one location -- Decatur, Macon County,...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

Tomorrow night's BCG webinar on some genealogy reflexes

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I'll be talking about genealogy reflexes and how they relate to doing good genealogy and becoming certified, at the BCG free webinar Tue...