Friday, September 28, 2007

John, Mary topped Social Security Administration list of boy, girl names in 1907

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Ya gotta love the Social Security Administration. If you want to know the most popular girl's name for 2006, (It was Emily. Jacob was nu...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Linkpendium — For The Easily Distracted

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I am an information junkie. I collect useless information like some people collect coins. As someone recently reminded me, time is a very pr...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Civil War Pensions and More at NARA

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If you want to order a federal Civil War pension packet (confederate civil war pensions are not held by NARA), you will need to know the fol...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Placing an Order with NARA

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It's taken a little bit of time to figure out what the limitations are for the Web design on our blogging format. In the body of the blo...

Ain't Nobody Listenin'

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My feelings were bruised the other day when I read an entry in one of the News-Mess forums. The poster said, “Not to mention I am really dis...
Friday, September 21, 2007

It's All in the Details

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Sooner or later, when people find out that I “do” genealogy they will ask the inevitable question, “How far back have you gone?” Invariably...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

A Blog Version of ‘A Dog Ate My Homework’

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As I was starting to type this blog today, my keyboard started confusing Z's for Y's. Just like that — out of the blue — the first s...