Over the past few months my interest in genealogy research has flagged. I continue to engage in hours of perusing various sources and searching for new ones, which might lead eventually to additional information about my ancestors; however, I don’t feel the same sort of exhilaration that I once experienced, perhaps, the absence of any [...]
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Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus
Posted in Observations, genealogy on Dec 29th, 2008
The irreparable loss of time to which Virgil referred to in his poem, Georgics, is a universal fate, and the cause of a malady which all of us either endure or succumb to depending upon one’s personality and the strength and compassion of the community that may offer us support. Time is always fleeing; and [...]
Audacity Of Hope And The Persistence Of Cynicism
Posted in Observations, Politics, genealogy, religion on Nov 7th, 2008
My private passion over the last year has been genealogy. As one of the millions of Americans who traces his lineage through the ports of New York and Philadelphia, my lack of knowledge regarding my ancestors fueled a curiosity which, remained submerged for most of my life until it sounded in the fall of 2007. [...]
Archival Surrendipity
Posted in Observations, Places, genealogy on Oct 9th, 2008
While visiting family and attending my 45th high school reunion in New Jersey, I stopped by the courthouse to check out the Archives Room which I had stumbled upon when I was searching for some genealogy information on the internet. The time I had available for side trips and excursions was limited, especially those that [...]
Bittersweet
Posted in Observations, genealogy on Sep 25th, 2008
In the midst of a recent conversation my mother became unusually pensive. We had been talking about family, relatives by way of my recounting the latest genealogical finds I had made involving our ancestors. At this stage of her life my mother’s memory is somewhat of a movable feast in that a period of pure [...]
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