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	<description>Contemplating Our Place in Time through Local and Family History</description>
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		<title>Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 16:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes in genealogy, life gets in the way.  Sad I know, but true. This will be a short post in honor of this week&#8217;s &#8220;living&#8221; a.k.a. flood recovery, a gas leak resulting in gutting the kitchen, two grade school band concerts, one little league practice, one soccer practice, one choir practice, one soccer game, four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Household Archeology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week or so ago and in a round-about way, I got a question about a memorial plaque found in the ceiling of an old house during renovation and it got me thinking about the things we find that tell a little story or present a little mystery about the the places where we live. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words to the Wise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 15:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words. They are the smallest unit of meaning. The documents we study, the stories we are told are built up of those units. Little bits of meaning are added to each other until some information is conveyed. To understand that information we need to understand the basic ingredients. Do we always know what those ingredients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Stuff</title>
		<link>http://www.thepersonalpast.com/2013/04/27/the-big-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love to find little connections between families and history. Often people are sure that there is no &#8220;history&#8221; in their family. I think it would be a strange family indeed that was never involved in any historical events. Never impacted in a way worth noting, no one who ever signed a petition on some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Deluge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flooding is a topic that has forced itself upon me this week. Two and a half times the normal rainfall for all of April in 20 hours is something that one notices, especially when the sump pump was already running. So what do floods have to do with genealogy? 1 Floods of information I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chaos!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepersonalpast.com/2013/04/14/chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always like when I can connect my years as a scientist and my work as a genealogist. This week I got a bit of inspiration in that direction. I was reviewing some genealogy that was felt to be questionable. I have had to agree. There were a few key people who seemed wedged in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dance of the Sources</title>
		<link>http://www.thepersonalpast.com/2013/04/07/dance-of-the-sources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Checking sources can be an oddly enjoyable pastime. At least I think so. That is, I both enjoy it and admit that it might be somewhat odd to enjoy it. I think what lies behind a statement is often even more fascinating than the statement itself. Every conclusion has a story behind it, a sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trick Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of April Fools&#8217; Day, I thought I might throw out some genealogical trick questions. See how you do. Is it legal in Virginia for a man to marry his widow&#8217;s sister? How many birthdays does the average man have? The average woman? Do they have a fourth of July in England? Can a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Puzzles and Panoramas</title>
		<link>http://www.thepersonalpast.com/2013/03/24/puzzles-and-panoramas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common analogies for what genealogists do involves jigsaw puzzles. We say that we find the pieces and carefully fit them together to prove facts about people&#8217;s lives and the relationships between ancestors. Sometimes we even throw in the nasty little fact that the pieces that we find might not all belong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content or Context?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepersonalpast.com/2013/03/17/content-or-context/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I remember hearing a story years ago of a man who sat in an archive, in Spain or perhaps Portugal, sniffing documents. He was trying to detect the subtle, lingering sent of vinegar. Why? Long ago people attempted to prevent the spread of disease by sprinkling mail with vinegar. A letter might claim &#8220;we are [...]]]></description>
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