October 2010

When Witches Said neither “Trick” nor “Treat”

Now that my Star Wars and Harry Potter characters have gathered their last preHalloween harvest of candy corn and caramels and are fast asleep, I find my mind turning to a time when ghosts, goblins and witches were a much more serious business than my children’s Halloween costumes or a snaggletoothed grin on a jack-o-lantern. […]

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Three Steps to a Better (Ancestral) Life

Anything that isn’t sufficiently complex to look at from many different angles probably won’t hold a person’s attention for very long. There are certainly many ways to look at genealogy and the process of genealogical research.  Genealogy, I’ve noticed, has been known to hold the attention of a researcher or two.  One rather basic way

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