Archive for December, 2012
The Genealogist’s Auld Lang Syne
Sunday, December 30th, 2012Last year I left seriousness behind in a parody post for Christmas Eve. This year’s holiday post is a bit of a parody too but I was in more serious mood while writing it and it came out much less silly. I could almost imagine singing this. So with apologies to the great Robert Burns- [...]
Oh My! Oh Maya!
Sunday, December 23rd, 2012Once again the world has failed to end on schedule. Now I guess I’d better write a blog post. I love calendars, I’m not equally fond of the end of the world. I love using calendar peculiarities to solve genealogical problems, I don’t like the thought of my data being engulfed by a sea of [...]
Trying the Not
Sunday, December 16th, 2012Sometimes the path we walk with our ancestors is a bit convoluted. Sometimes that is an understatement. Often we reach a dead end and wonder why. Sometimes, though the path is correct, here and there our clues to our ancestors’ strange trajectories can turn out to be the reddest of herrings. Every virtue has a [...]
404-Ancestor not found
Sunday, December 9th, 2012The other day, a link that I clicked at just the wrong moment was dead by the time my internet connection was brought back to life hours later. I saw a number that you don’t generally want to see on the web, 404. My page was not found. But this 404 page was pretty informative. [...]
Pyrrhic Research
Sunday, December 2nd, 2012Heinrich Schliemann is not a name that rolls off the English speaking tongue and his name probably doesn’t appear among your ancestors but I think that he has some interesting things to say about the genealogical research we do. Heinrich did research as well, though not genealogical. Even so, he started with oral history, exactly [...]