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	<description>Contemplating Our Place in Time through Local and Family History</description>
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		<title>DNA 2.0</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years now genealogists have been interested in genetics. DNA testing can help us solve genealogical puzzles. It can tell us about unknown relatives. It can give us insight into ethnicity. Sometimes it proves that there is something wrong in our paper trail. Sometimes it shows that our research in the records is likely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignorance is Bliss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 15:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is more important in research, what we know or what we don&#8217;t know? Learning something new in genealogy always leads to more questions than it answers. There is always more that we don&#8217;t know than what we know. Every bit of information leads to the hope that more details can be discovered. Finding a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before the Titanic there was&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of news lately about the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Today, April 27, is actually the anniversary of the worst maritime disaster in American history. Worse even than the loss of life that night in 1912. Yet almost no one remembers it. Almost no one took notice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devils in the Details</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was starting to investigate a client&#8217;s family story. It was remembered as a case of manslaughter, though not in so many words. It was supposedly committed by a man who married into the family that I was researching. It turned out to involve death threats, a brutal, premeditated murder and the prospect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rated G or Rated OMG</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find that family stories often take multiple forms as they are preserved. It reminds me of one of the truly strange things that one learns in physics—that a subatomic particle can take more than one path to its destination. It seems truly bizarre. Yet it is fairly easy to show, though it does require [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Time Compassion</title>
		<link>http://www.thepersonalpast.com/2012/04/09/old-time-compassion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genealogy can surprise us. We often get quite different perspectives on the people in our personal past from what we might have gotten had we lived in their day. I think it would be an unusual genealogist that didn&#8217;t at some point wish that they could journey back in time to meet an ancestor. Often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Is Almost 1940</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not without some trepidation that I sit down to enter the world of 1940 census blogging. So much has already been written that I&#8217;m somewhat afraid of boring the already over-informed. On the other hand, I love to explore the census and to write nothing before April 2, simply seems wrong. In Case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like so many others in the U.S. I&#8217;ve been working on my taxes. It is that time of year. As a family historian, my mind naturally drifts to a time before TurboTax, stacks of receipts even before real tax forms. When Congress approved the first ever income tax during the American Civil War, it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Never Know Until You Ask</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I asked a cousin if she had some pictures that had belonged to her mother, my Aunt Melva, who recently passed away. My cousin&#8217;s husband said, &#8220;Oh I have those scanned and put on CD. Do you want one? I can get it to you next week.&#8221; Yes, I certainly did want one. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban, Ethnic America, The Irish Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hubbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In American genealogy, unless you only have Native American blood, you will eventually run up against an immigrant. At least you probably hope to reach back in time however far as is needed. We all have roots elsewhere. Culturally, we even have roots in places where our ancestors never lived. Many of those physical roots [...]]]></description>
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