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Author: Dave Robison

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Goal Setting Workshop

It is an understatement for me to say that the workshop I attended today with Marian Pierre-Louis and 13 other talented, dedicated, professional genealogists was an excellent way to spend 3 hours on a day when there is certainly no lack of many projects to attend to.  For those who know Marian, you’ll agree with…
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New England Historic Genealogical Society

Tonight I received the announcement from the New England Historic Genealogical Society that they are about to release the latest update to their web site at www.americanancestors.org.  I don’t know much more than that at this time, but what I can tell you is that you can register for an instructional webinar that will be…
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“If It’s Online…It’s True” — Abraham Lincoln

The whimsical quote above is something I found somewhere…probably online… and I thought I’d share it with you. I was hoping it would be a humourous segue into this subject. It occurred to me as I was watching WDYTYA, that if anyone took a tally of what was discovered on line, specifically by the show’s…
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Hezekiah’s Farm

This link is to an aerial view of what was my 4th great grandfather’s farm in Alabama. http://www.findaspring.com/locations/north-america/usa/robinson-hollow-spring-elkmont-alabama/. It’s located on Robinson Hollow along Robinson Road near Elkmont, Limestone Co, Alabama where you’ll find Robinson Family Cemetery. After marrying Anne Grantham who died young and then his sister-in-law Tabitha Grantham, Hezekiah Robinson (or Robison or…
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Can I fix it?

Granted, this is a genealogy blog.  And I rarely post non-genealogy subjects.  However, I’ve been working on this for 3 days and it’s a bit frustrating! The goal was to put my website and my blog “under one roof” so to speak.  The web host I used for my website was GoDaddy with whom I…
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Big Snow Storm, Wednesday, March 12, 1913

Weather cold with big snow storm. To much snow to work. Cullerne and I in car all day a lone. Mr. Juno came down from the front to join this outfit.

Dark, cloudie and cold…Tuesday, March 11, 1913

Today was dark cloudie and cold with a little snow fall. Cullerne and I in the car all alone. We did nothing all morning In the afternoon I copied a few notes. After supper Arthur came over too the car to fix his album staz till 9:30 then I went to bed. I don’t know…
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Boston University

Let me take a short break from “Lest We Forget” to talk a little about the BU course in Genealogical research. I’ll admit the course is a little tougher than I expected. Especially when I submitted an assignment and anxiously awaited the results. Well, the grade cam back at an abysmal number: “You seem to…
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Monday, March 10, 1913

Weather fine and warm Bobie Lee and I went up to the bridge for the handcar and found that it was taken. we looked all over the yards for it but could not find it. After that we went out with Cullerne to run levels on the round house track. worked about 2 hrs Bob…
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Sunday, March 9, 1913 The day after the fire…

Sunday, March 9, 1913 “Lest We Forget” I had breakfast and went uptown to the fire there was very little left everything was burned up Than I could see the plate glasses on the other side was all broken from the heat and water. After supper I took a long walk along the town that…
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