Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in genealogy on Jan 17th, 2008
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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Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
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