Archive for February, 2010
Discover, Disbelieve, Disprove, Repeat
Friday, February 26th, 2010A recent email conversation has started me thinking about one of my favorite topics—thinking about data and ideas. It also reminded me that I had been planning to write a post about Karl Popper awhile back and just never got around to it. I enjoy bringing other disciplines into my thinking about family history and [...]
Anachrotopia
Saturday, February 20th, 2010What makes a place a place? While writing A Very Porous Border I couldn’t help but think about what we mean by the concept of a place and, after that post, the natural example for me to use comes from the two largest countries in North America. Today we take the existence of Canada and [...]
A Very Porous Border
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Watching the Vancouver Olympics, it seems quite natural to both cheer and be excited both for your country and for whoever turns in a great performance. Sometimes we confine ourselves to our national borders, other times an amazing achievement transcends any man-made boundaries. Searching for the history of our families can also be a time [...]
The Fable of Either and Or
Monday, February 8th, 2010I like to write about research skills and knowledge that are even more basic than what are normally thought of as genealogy skills. Before you can piece together a difficult family you might need to know the big difference between the 1880 census and the ones that came before it (it gives relationships between members [...]