Comments for Personal Past Meditations- a Genealogical Blog

Comment on Rated G or Rated OMG by Daniel Hubbard

Daniel Hubbard — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:27:58 +0000

Ah, yes, I think I’ve heard that one before. I wish I’d remembered it. I wonder of the “state facilities” were considered a step up or a step down from “working for the county”?

Comment on Rated G or Rated OMG by Trish

Trish — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:26:36 +0000

Down south, we call “currently engaged in facilities of our state” as “he’s working for the county.”

Comment on Old Time Compassion by Palib

Palib — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:53:29 +0000

Your blog today really hit home with me. It can be so easy to be judgmental, especially with the people we know and interact with. For me it is easier to be compassionate to my ancestors…their mistakes, and flaws do not impact my life today.

Thanks for sharing!

Comment on Genealogy Literati by Marian Pierre-Louis

Marian Pierre-Louis — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:04:20 +0000

A great post! Wonderfully written and explained!

Comment on Urban, Ethnic America, The Irish Way by Heather J. @ TLC Book Tours

Heather J. @ TLC Book Tours — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:58:35 +0000

” Like all of my favorite historical works, it is a book not of names and dates but of contradictions, interconnections and influences.” I really enjoy historical books that aren’t exactly straightforward as well!

Thanks for being on the tour.

Comment on Urban, Ethnic America, The Irish Way by James R. Barrett, author of The Irish Way, on tour March 2012 | TLC Book Tours

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:57:54 +0000

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Comment on Is it Ever as Simple as it Looks? by Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:32:22 +0000

Thank you for this post and for your speculations on what might have occurred. I have a similar marriage that didn’t make sense between two immigrants, both from Germany — one from the north, one from the south, one Lutheran, one Catholic, both parents of small children, one divorced, the other said to be widowed. And I had two marriage dates, no immigration date for the wife, and a whole lot of questions about how they met and when they married — or when they considered themselves married.

Like you, I have hypotheses, and I will probably never know. But I know far more now because of records left by her first cousin of her own second marriage which should have said nothing at all about theirs, but in fact was the clue that unlocked much of the mystery.

Isn’t it fun?

Comment on Footnotes on my Footnotes by Daniel Hubbard

Daniel Hubbard — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:09:53 +0000

Nikki, I’m so glad you found it helpful. If it makes your project just a hint better, everyone benefits.

Comment on In Memoriam by Daniel Hubbard

Daniel Hubbard — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:08:29 +0000

Carol, Diane,
Thank you both. In the last few days I’ve also received emails from distant cousins who neither my aunt nor I have met in person but who were helped by her. It is quite touching.

Comment on Footnotes on my Footnotes by Nikki LaRue

Nikki LaRue — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:00:18 +0000

Dan, I found this post very informative. Not just because you bring up an extremely important point that sometimes gets forgotten in the dust of our research – knowing how and why the resource you’re using was created – but also because you bring up several important questions for creators of those sources to keep in mind, and to make known to those who will be utilizing that source. I’m working on an indexing project right now that is being placed on the GenWeb page for the specific county and the answers to those questions you raised should be posted with the index so the users know where that info came from and how the information was put into that format. Thanks for posting this!