Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
Posted in Observations, genealogy, religion on May 7th, 2008
In Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury muses:
Is this the real life-
Is this just fantasy-
This morning I stumbled on this headline on the Catholic News Service:
Vatican letter directs bishops to keep parish records from Mormons
Since I’ve been involved in earnest with family genealogy over the last half year or so I’ve relied, in part, on the [...]
The last few weeks have been rather memorable as an international audience witnessed the tale of two brothers unfold online. I had discovered a cache of letters written to my grandfather by his brother during the 1930’s and 40’s. My grandfather emigrated to America in 1906, his brother was a boy of twelve [...]
Posted in Observations, genealogy on Mar 22nd, 2008
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Emma Lazarus
The other night my wife and I watched Emanuele Crialese’s 2007 film, Golden Door (Nuovomondo), which depicts the conditions confronting and endured by [...]
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 [...]
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Sir, the worst way of being intimate, is by scribbling. –Dr. Johnson
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