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Genealogy for NaNoWriMo

November is about to begin and that means National Novel Writing Month. I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo since 2003. In fact, I discovered the event just before moving to Utah and that was my first year....

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NaNoWriMo Follow-Up

Well, that month went a little differently than I’d planned, but NaNo tends to do that. I am going to call it a smashing success. My final word count is 80885. That means about 40 hours of genealogy...

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Don’t Believe Everything You See On TV

I’m watching Genealogy Roadshow online since I missed it on TV. Every now and then, I try to look up the documents they have found, or the ones they skipped over. The New Orleans episode followed the...

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RootsTech 2015 Review

So I guess this is my annual rant about RootsTech. The Fun I had a great time last week. I spent a lot of time in the IAJGS booth with the IAJGS folks. Mark was always there, Marlis, Garri, Michael,...

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A Memory, Because of Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention 2011. Photo by Beth Madison, via Wikimedia Commons. I haven’t blogged on the usual themes in a while, but I didn’t want to save this one for Monday....

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WDYTYA – 6×01 – Julie Chen – The Nitpicker’s Version

It’s time for another season of Who Do You Think You Are? and this time, the season didn’t begin during an IAJGS conference, which means, I have a chance to keep up. The season began with Julie Chen....

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WDYTYA – 6×02 – Josh Groban – The Nitpicker’s Version

The second episode of Who Do You think You Are? this season featured Josh Groban. Starting With The Family This episode started with a visit with his parents and brother. In his monologue interview, he...

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WDYTYA – 6×03 – Angie Harmon – The Nitpicker’s Version

I thought I’d finally get to watch an episode as it aired on TV, visiting a friend in Arizona, but her cable company was incapable of providing a live TV feed. So I didn’t watch most of the Angie...

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Visiting Cousins/NYC Jewish Cemeteries

Mularzewicz Cousins – Noreen Cohen, Sandi Wiener, Cheryl Goldberg, Banai Feldstein, Meryl Gruber Last month, I went down to Scottsdale, Arizona to meet some of my more distant Mularzewicz cousins for a...

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WDYTYA – 6×04 – Sean Hayes – The Nitpicker’s Version

The intro for Sean Hayes’s episode of WDYTYA interestingly skipped over the TV show he starred in recently, “Sean Saves the World”, which I watched. Oh well. He didn’t know anything about his father,...

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Israel 2015 – Day 0

It’s a long flight to Israel, and I was in a middle seat. But I survived it. And my cell phone plan upgrade that dumped my data plan — the entire reason for upgrading, I got that straightened out too....

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Israel 2015 – Day 1

Today, I got to see some of Israel. I’m staying with the IAJGS conference co-chair, so I do a bit of helping out with the conference. I have already been helping out with a few things, but now I’m...

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Israel 2015 – Day 2

Michael suggested that I visit Yad Vashem today and I took his advice. It turns out that he was more correct than he realized because the main museum was open a few hours later than all other days of...

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Israel 2015 – Day 3

I wonder how long it will be until I forget what day I’m on. I finally made it over to the conference hotel today. Rony Golan had arranged a tour of Tel Aviv for eight of us and it made for a lovely...

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Israel 2015 – Day 4

The events of the IAJGS Conference have begun. There was a Shabbaton and, following instructions, I blended into the group by the end of Saturday. I was hoping or expecting to do a couple of things,...

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Israel 2015 – Day 5

After joining the Shabbaton unexpectedly yesterday, today I joined a tour. I went on the Masada and Dead Sea tour. Masada was hot. I brought back one souvenir and it’s red and all over my face and...

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Israel 2015 – Day 6 – IAJGS Day 1

Time for the IAJGS Conference. I started out in the session for New Attendees. Marlis Humphrey, as President of IAJGS, presents that. But she asks me to help, this year specifically with demonstrating...

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Israel 2015 – Day 7 – IAJGS Day 2

Today was a short day on lectures. I had two at a time in two time slots, but I still didn’t go to the first one at all. Both were broadcast On Demand. Conveniently, as webmaster, I will be getting all...

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Israel 2015 – Day 8 – IAJGS Day 3

I started the day in Non-Classified and Unidentified Sources for Genealogy with Alex Denysenko. It was a fascinating tour of records that he has come across in unusual ways, whether the archive simply...

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Israel 2015 – Day 9-10 – IAJGS Day 4-5

Thursday was very busy for my conference schedule. Unfortunately, the sleep deprivation caught up to me. After waking up very early and going to breakfast, I just could not stay awake. I missed the...

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