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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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. [...]
Mio compleanno
Posted in Family, Observations, genealogy on Aug 11th, 2008
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 [...]
Distractions
Posted in Family, Observations, genealogy on Mar 12th, 2008
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 [...]
Mutts
Posted in Observations, genealogy on Feb 14th, 2008
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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