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Posts about Mightier Acorns, but not necessarily about ancestors or research.
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posted on Friday, February 27, 2015 This is one of my favorite finds – thanks to my cousin, Chad, for sending it my way all those years ago! I’d love to hear about your famous connections if you’d like to share. In 2007 music journalist Andrew Means published Some Memories: Growing Up with Marty Robbins –…
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What to expect when you’re expecting collaboration By now, you may have noticed that I love using WikiTree. I do my original research primarily using my Ancestry membership (which is expensive and not an option for everyone), and then take what I learn about each family/relative and craft it into a biographical profile on WikiTree…
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Behind the curtain at Mightier Acorns At the risk of sounding pleased with myself, I wanted to share some of the habits and organization that go into this newsletter. Folks new to writing often start a project like this only to tire of the constant deadlines. They may feel like they’ve run out of things…
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Taking stock of the journey so far We have been climbing a ladder of evidence for a couple of months now – a metaphorical ladder leaning against the side of one of my “family palm trees”. The first several rungs felt like very solid footing, but the last three have been increasingly shaky. Depending on…
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A tour of an excellent secondary source Let’s do a little bit of math, just for fun. (A thing my math teachers would never have predicted I would say.) Starting with “one” – that’s you – and working backward through preceding generations, you have probably already noticed how each generation doubles in size. You, your…
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Sometimes it’s okay to fantasize I spend a lot of time on this blog emphasizing the importance of evidence and critical thinking in assembling a factual family history. But as some of my Substack friends will tell you, context and the construction of a narrative are also important elements for telling your family’s story. CuZens…
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A valentine for my surname A couple of weeks ago, I had some unexpected time off (thanks, persistent pandemic!) and since my brain was still functional, I decided to use that time to launch a One-Name Study for my surname on WikiTree. (This post is short because I want you to follow that link.) I…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname When I was new to genealogy, I did what a lot of people do: I uncritically relied on the work of others. A lot of what I know about the Huff family came to me via the late Max Huff. Unfortunately for me, by the time…
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Perfection is the enemy The Devil is in the details. Or, so I have heard. But that aphorism, according to Tally over on Medium, “derives from an earlier German proverb — “Der liebe Gott steckt im detail”, which translates as ‘God is in the detail’.” Any genealogy researcher can tell you that both are true.…
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My Strategy in a (coco)nutshell When we talk about our “family tree,” we tend to focus on “lines” – which leads us to an over-simplification of what our “tree” looks like. For the sake of understanding who we’re talking about, we will skip over several generations to get to a particular family, and we can…
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