Dad did a family history with intent to cover his, and our mother’s ancestry.1 He wrote mostly of his memories, but hired professional genealogists to document what came before. They outright failed his father-in-law on our Scots side, understandably, for the reason that made him subject of “Double Genealogy: The Adoption Witness”.2 They equally failed … Continue reading Our Anecdotal Jewishness
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Writing Genealogy: Use the Kitchen Sink
So you have some data – maybe a lot – where your research has turned out to belong to an unrelated person or event. Delete it? Perish the thought! Time is money, or at least, usable tidbit. If you just want a family tree, a list of names, dates and occupations, this is not for … Continue reading Writing Genealogy: Use the Kitchen Sink
Writing Genealogy – Intro
Finding ancestor tidbits. Organizing. Writing. Citing. Publishing. Copyright. ETC. The easiest question will be this: if one is only interested in drawing a family tree, why worry about documenting sources? Why write about it? The answer is in the continuous budding one hopes, for that tree. The next generation to dig into its roots or … Continue reading Writing Genealogy – Intro
