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Mio compleanno

If my weak Italian is correct, sono di sessantatre anni oggi.  The Italian association seems fitting for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which relates to my Sicilian ancestors.  I have been almost obsessively immersed in genealogy over the last eight months or so, and during this period my focus has been principally [...]

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Distractions

Quite a few days have passed between posts. A number of events over the last few weeks has distracted me from the more frequent interval of posting that I had been maintaining recently. The most serious incident, and the one which was the most alarming personally, involved a quick trip to NJ to [...]

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Mutts

Lately, this blog has become a tacit dimension of my renewed efforts at tracing the roots of my family. Confluence and divergence not only coexist but abound in genealogy research, a condition I’m certain veteran genealogists handle with the aplomb that I am lacking. In a recent conversation Dave Searls’ remark that we [...]

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The Source

I haven’t quite managed to navigate upstream on my family’s genealogical rivers and tributaries but I’ve gotten off to a better start than I had initially expected. There is a copious amount of material and methods to master; the blush of success by the first few elementary searches fades quickly. As the complexity [...]

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