The Controversy of Data

Over the years it has always amazed me how deeply folks buy into their own data. Even me. As we do our research we become convinced of our conclusions…Sometimes even

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Cousin Contact

I have heard from cousins on a couple of my lines recently. Over the past month I have heard from relatives of my mothers grandmother, Della Blair Medford. This Blair

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Collaborative Picasa Web Albums

Picasa is one of the most popular online photo publishing services available. However, it has always been a place to publish your photos for others to see. Now Google (the

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Updated the data on Boyd-Family.net

The whole reason I set this site up in the new format last fall was because it would be easier to update…Since then life happened and I just realized I

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Boyd Family Reunion 2009

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A New Reason To Do Research

It was family reunion time last weekend. One “gift” I wasn’t expecting was a box of Aunt Bessie’s research and correspondence  from the 60’s thru the 80’s. I’ve been spending

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Genealogy Research Process Map – Version 2 | ThinkGenealogy

In the last two and a half months alone, the original Genealogy Research Process Map post received 500 pageviews. Version 2 of the map has only a few changes. Besides

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Merry Christmas

From Coffee Muses A fifty year old Christmas Card greeting being sent from my family one more time just as it was in 1958. Merry Christmas all… I’ll be doing

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