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I’ve slacked a bit on the blog front, but a few motivational things have been pushing forward at the same time: WDYTYA? — While NBC is currently rerunning some of the Season 2 episodes of the US edition of Who Do You Think You Are?, I’ve been watching my own DVD reruns of some favorite […]
As a long-time viewer of the BBC edition of Who Do You Think You Are?, which has broadcast sixty episodes over seven seasons so far1, I recognized tonight’s episode featuring Kim Cattrall as an edited version of a BBC episode from 2009 (Series 6). As fans of PBS may be aware, hour-long BBC originals are […]
Have you ever had a problem visualizing how a direct or collateral relation fits in to a chart? Many genealogical programs offer ways to show this with direct lines, but a rare few do so with collateral family. Even fewer take an English description and attempt to chart it out graphically. Enter Wolfram’s Mathematica (also […]
This past holiday season, Microsoft aired a warning about the future of family photographs by trying to convince people to use editing software to lie. A family fidgeted on a couch, annoyingly looking to the side, looking down while texting, sticking an action figure in an ear, “Dad” getting up to remove said action figure. […]
From Genea-Musings comes a bit of a catch-up Saturday Night Genealogy Fun prompt: 1) What day of the week were you born? Tell us how you found out. 2) What has happened in recorded history on your birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events. 3) What famous […]
