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We are now evaluating two of Polycom's videoconferencing systems: Polycom HDX and Group Series. From a technology standpoint, which system is a better investment?
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The Polycom Group Series is new, whereas the Polycom HDX Series is the workhorse that's been around a few years. The HDX Series is still relevant, especially for those organizations that may want to plug in a phone line or need to do Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN) connectivity (while this is rare, some sites may need it). I haven't worked directly with the Group Series yet in my engagements, but I have conferenced with people who have used them and the picture is great. Your Polycom sales or systems engineer should go through the differences between the videoconferencing systems in detail and look closely at the interface requirements, such as needing a third-party camera. The HDX Series is like a Swiss army knife and will do most anything. The Group Series, I suspect, is more cost effective.
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Day Of Spray: Cop, Shopper Turn To Pepper Spray To Brave Black Friday (VIDEO)
In the first case, police report a shopper attempted to gain a competitive advantage over her fellow patrons at a Wal-Mart store in Porter Ranch, Calif., at about 10 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. Here's what that was like, according to witness accounts in the Los Angeles Times:
Witness Matthew Lopez described a chaotic scene in the San Fernando Valley store among shoppers looking for video games soon after the sale began."I heard screaming and I heard yelling," said Lopez, 18. "Moments later, my throat stung. I was coughing really bad and watering up."
The second Wal-Mart spraying (so far) was more in line with what we've come to expect when it comes to pepper spray and crowds: an off-duty police officer working store security used the weapon in the midst of a mass of unarmed shoppers. This time it was Kinston, N.C., where the painful spray wafted through a Wal-Mart.
"Sgt. Roland Davis of Kinston Public Safety says Walmart hired off-duty police officers to help with security during their Black Friday event today," reports WITN-TV. "Davis says an officer was trying to quell a disturbance and make an arrest, and used pepper spray."
Here's video of the aftermath recorded by one witness and posted by WITN:
Not all Wal-Mart trips ended in pepper spray, but several others did end in police action. In Rome, N.Y., a man was arrested after "several shoppers at the electronics department were pushed to the ground and several fights broke out," according to NBC3 in Syracuse. And in Cave Creek, Ariz., the bomb squad took a suspected explosive device out of a Wal-Mart employee break room.
Other incidents occurred outside Wal-Mart stores early in the morning of Black Friday. In Myrtle Beach, S.C., a woman was shot in the foot during an armed robbery outside a Wal-Mart at around 1 AM. In San Leandro, Calif., a man was reportedly shot outside a Wal-Mart at about 2 a.m. "after suspects asked the victims for their items and were refused," leading to a fight.

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In the last week of the second session of Parliament for the new NDA government, the notification for electing a deputy Speaker in the Lok Sabha was finally issued on Monday.
AIADMK's M Thambidurai is set to become the deputy Speaker as the NDA government is opposed to giving the prestigious seat to the Congress. If any other party puts in their candidate, an election will be held on Wednesday.
The election of the deputy Speaker will also set the ball rolling for the long-pending seating arrangement of the MPs and the constitution of the standing committees.
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The ASA has appointed a Director of Marketing and Communications to provide the national governing body (NGB) with a strategic lead in the run up to London 2012 and beyond while ensuring a long-term legacy off the back of a home Olympics.
Chris Denny will lead the Marketing, Communication and Sponsorship teams of the ASA and British Swimming while a key element will be to explore commercial opportunities to enhance the work of the NGB beyond 2012.
The appointment follows a period of sustained success for the ASA and British Swimming in terms of competitive results on the world stage as well as driving forward major nationwide initiatives such as free swimming.
These positive strides have brought about an increased public profile for the sports as well as a key commercial partnership with British Gas, and ASA Chief Executive David Sparkes welcomes Denny's appointment to further enhance opportunities for the NGB.
"Building on the success of best results for 100 years at Beijing 2008 Olympics, our greatest ever World Championship performance last year and the tremendous partnerships we've formed, we needed to appoint a lead figure for our marketing and communications work and strategies.
"Chris Denny brings with him a wealth of experience and expertise in this area and we are now in a position to maximise our opportunities through a co-ordinated and strategic approach through to 2012 and beyond."
Denny brings over 20 years of marketing and communication experience to the ASA.
The former Head of Marketing for the London Olympic Bid team and subsequently the London 2012 Organising Committee played a significant role in the most successful commercial programme in Olympic history raising over £500m in sponsorship to date.
In his role with the London 2012 Games bid team, Denny was responsible for preparing and presentation to the International Olympic Committee as well as the design and implementation of the bid's marketing campaign.
Denny, who has more recently been involved in marketing consultant work within government, business and public sectors on Olympic opportunities, is pleased to be working directly within sport at what is an exciting and crucial time.
"I'm delighted to be joining the ASA as it is a governing body with a strong reputation, a rich history and which is excelling in terms of performance both in and out of the water," said Denny.
"We will be building on the success to date and upping our game in the run up to 2012 through co-ordinated strategies designed to heighten the profile of the sports and drive participation as a key London 2012 legacy."
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NEW YORK, Wednesday—The newspaper that I read yesterday morning stated in the headlines that Mr. Stassen testified under oath that Dr. Jessup had falsified under oath. Then as you read the first paragraph you found that this was done "in denying the United States ever intended to recognize the Chinese Communists."
As you read what is being said nowadays you gain the impression that ever to have discussed with Great Britain or with any other nations why they did or did not recognize Communist China, or whether it would be wise for the United States to do so and on what grounds they would base their argument either for or against recognition by the United States, was in itself proof that the man doing the consultation or arguing was in favor of recognition of Communist China by the U.S.A.
I can remember so clearly every step of the way in our relations with China under Chiang Kai-shek that I remember the arguments of Chinese as well as Americans who believed that there might be value in having the Kuomintang represent the area of China which at that time was under what was called Northern Chinese domination. This really meant the area that was under Communist leadership, as well as the completely conservative group and the middle-of-the-road group led by Sun Yat-sen's son, Sun Fo.
Such a combination exists in a number of European countries today, such as France and Holland and Belgium. The middle-of-the-road group is the strongest, drawing a little from the more liberal conservatives and a little from the more conservative radicals.
This was never tried in China, however, because Chiang's advisers came to no agreement as to how it should be done. There were also constant suggestions of reforms to be made in China for the benefit of the people. None of these were made. There was a recognition of the fact that government officials were corrupt, but nothing was done about it.
It was all these considerations that led our military people to advise that perhaps it would be better to stop shipments of supplies to the Nationalists, who seemed about to collapse. It was feared these arms would turn up in enemy hands, which, of course, they later did.
I think it more than possible that both Mr. Stassen and Dr. Jessup are entirely correct.
I cannot imagine that any intelligent official would not talk with the government representatives about the recognition or nonrecognition of Communist China. And, as I understand it, that is what Mr. Stassen says Dr. Jessup did and he assumed that because Ambassador Jessup did this that he advocated the recognition of Communist China.
That is where I cannot follow Mr. Stassen's reasoning or some of the reasoning that seems to be expressed by members of the investigating committee questioning Dr. Jessup's fitness to serve as a United States delegate to the United Nations.
Discussion of a subject does not mean approval, and any public servant who does not discuss every subject from every possible angle should not be entrusted with important work for the government. The better your ability to cover every side of a question, the better your chance to serve your country well. We might as well have robots in positions of trust if we do not expect our public servants to discuss every possible subject from every angle.


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I can't access Blogger.In situations where the blog owner, and / or any number of blog readers, are cooperative, and able to take a few minutes to perform some simple tests, we can conduct a Affinity based analysis - or possibly an Affinity / Differential Analysis.
In cases where the blog URL is stated, and we can access the blog, we may resort to a canonical diagnostic procedure.
Start by verifying URLs involved.
First, make a screen print, and a text copy, of the Blogger dashboard Publishing wizard, at Settings - Basic. Many Blogger problems are solved by identifying simple typographical errors.
We can do the canonical diagnostics, before starting a more comprehensive diagnosis.
Here are 8 replicas of the same article, which provide a test set for you to use.
Can you read all 8? Please be specific - which ones can you, and which can't you, read?
- http://blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.com/2006/07/help-my-blog-is-gone.html
- http://blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.com/ncr/2006/07/help-my-blog-is-gone.html
- http://blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.co.uk/2006/07/help-my-blog-is-gone.html
- http://blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.fr/2006/07/help-my-blog-is-gone.html
- http://bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com/2006/07/help-my-blog-is-gone.html
- http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2006/07/help-my-blog-is-gone.html
- http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help/web/my-blog-is-gone
- http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=7a80abd00b3cd7d8&hl=en
If you can open either of the latter two, read them carefully.
The test set is not frivolous, redundant, or trivial.
From observing the responses seen occasionally, it appears that the 8 tests identified above, are seen as frivolous, redundant, or trivial. This, however, is not the case.
All tests complement each other - and none are redundant. If executed in precise sequence, when a problem is observed, they can help to focus on many known or suspected connectivity problems.
All tests differ from each other - and none are frivolous or trivial. If executed consistently, the 8+ tests can provide a standard test set, and allow for easy comparison with other tests by other people. This is how we look for patterns.
By understanding the principles of causality and epidemiology, we know that when we see a possible connectivity problem reported at low volume, it's likely that the problem is at least partially caused by the individual computer or Internet connection. We can sometimes persuade the blog owner to do some more research.
When the problem is reported at high volume, this test set, provided consistently, helps us see a non imaginary relationship between the many reports - and productively forward an urgent problem report to Blogger Engineering. We can sometimes persuade Blogger Engineering to look at the problem.
The first task is to identify the nature of the problem.
Identifying the problem is where the 8+ link test comes into play. If you post a forum question - and the 8+ link test is suggested in a reply - take a couple minutes, click on the 8+ links, and note which ones lead (or do not lead) to properly provided advice. Read the advice. And finally, reply and tell us the results.
So, what is special and unique about the 8+ links? Let's look, briefly.
- "blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.com" is a Blogger blog, published to "blogspot.com" only.
- "blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.com/ncr" is a Blogger blog, published to "blogspot.com" only - and accessed through the CC alias override, in countries where CC aliasing is in effect.
- "blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.co.uk" is the UK alias of "blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.com". If the problem is identified for a specific country, "co.uk" may be changed to the CC alias that's relevant.
- "blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.fr" is the France alias of "blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.com". If the problem is identified for a specific country, "fr" may be changed to the CC alias that's relevant, to a nearby country.
- "bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com" is a Blogger blog, published to a Google Custom Domain.
- "blogging.nitecruzr.net" is the custom domain alias for "bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com".
- "groups.google.com/group/blogger-help" is the old Blogger Support forum.
- "www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger" is the current Blogger Support forum.
Each link is an alias of my first diagnostic article.
Each of the 8 linked articles contains a (replicated, as much as possible) alias of my first diagnostic procedure, Help! My Blog Is Gone! That name identifies one frequently seen complaint, in BHF: Something Is Broken.
The set of the links provides an affinity / differential test.
That set of 8+ links (plus any which I may add, according to your individual complaint) comprises one simple affinity test. And any collection of multiple 8+ link observations, taken over a period of time by one person - or taken by multiple people - constitutes an affinity / differential test.
Adding in 4 aliases of the specific blog mentioned by the owner - or readers - allows an affinity comparison between the different aliases of my blog(s), and the aliases of the problem blog. And multiple affinity sets allow an affinity differential comparison.
And a properly assembled affinity differential set can make a difference between Blogger Engineering diagnosing and fixing a problem this week - and sometime next month.


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Cleaning up the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was a huge undertaking. Street sweepers were in great demand and used heavily to keep debris off the roads that were still passable. It was important to continually sweep nails and sharp objects that would fall off trash hauling trucks and flatbed trailers.
One contractor explained that his sweepers were breaking down frequently due to their hydraulic motor shaft seals failing. The part of the circuit for the brush motors is shown. The motor on the curb side seemed to fail more often than the one on the street side.
A manufacturer's catalog stated that the sweeper's hydraulic motor was "especially suited for low-flow, high-pressure applications." It also stated: "High pressure Viton shaft seals eliminate the need for a case drain." System pressure in the sweeper's hydraulic system would fluctuate between 1500 to 2000 psi, and the rated continuous pressure listed in the catalog was 3000 psi. The system relief was set to 2400 psi. The catalog suggested a particular model for bi-directional applications, which was the case for this equipment.
At first, the contractor ordered shaft seal kits, then started ordering new units because he thought his maintenance people might not be installing the seals properly. But failures still occurred.
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There's a scene in director R.J. Cutler's fashion documentary The September Issue in which Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour lunches with Neiman Marcus Group Chief Executive Burt Tansky. Wintour and her team tell Tansky that they've relayed to fashion designer Miuccia Prada that the fabric she used for a particular dress was too heavy for everyday wear; Prada has agreed to use a lighter-weight fabric in order to please Wintour as well as retailers like Tansky.
Tansky then asks Wintour if she can push designers to send shipments to the stores on time (many labels are known for shaky logistical operations). She says she'll see what she can do–reinforcing her position as one of the most powerful women not only in fashion, but in the $200 billion U.S. clothing and accessories retail industry.
In Depth: Most Powerful Fashion Magazine Editors
The September Issue was filmed in 2007, before the recession fully took hold (and before magazine advertising sales began to plummet and consumers stopped buying so many handbags, dresses and shoes). Two years later, Wintour is still at the top of her game.
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Her contract at publishing dinosaur Condé Nast remains purportedly unsigned and advertising sales at Vogue are down 26% during the first half of 2009 (from 2008), yet Wintour has managed to spearhead the publicity for the documentary and also serve as the face of Fashion's Night Out, a series of high-profile, celebrity-saturated fashion events taking place on the evening Sept. 10 across the globe.
These and other factors make Wintour the most powerful fashion editor in America and, arguably, the world. In her dust are Glamour's Cindi Leive (knocked from her top-ranked spot in 2008); Elle's Robbie Myers; More's Leslie Jane Seymour; and Allure's Linda Wells.
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To compile our list of the America's most influential fashion editors, we considered the top editor of every monthly U.S.-based magazine that features a significant amount of fashion editorial, including teen magazines.
Monthly unique user numbers for each Web site, provided by comScore, told us how well each editor's title is transitioning from print to the online format. We also looked at advertising revenue from the first half of 2009 and compared it with revenue from the first half of 2008; both were culled from the Publishers Information Bureau (PIB), a division of the Magazine Publishers of America. The number of advertising pages for the first half of 2009 compared to the first half of 2008, also from PIB, was another factor.
We also considered the year-over-year change in circulation for the first half of 2009, provided by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. These measurements told us how many people are sure to read the magazine each month and how much advertisers are willing to pay to capture the attention of those readers.
Finally, we calculated the number of times each editor's name was found in Factiva and on
Besides Wintour's September Issue media blitz, which included an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, most of these editors–or their underlings–play a role on a reality television series. For instance, Bazaar's Glenda Bailey and Seventeen's Ann Shoket have appeared on Bravo's The Fashion Show and the CW's America's Next Top Model, respectively.
Perhaps the savviest small-screen editor is Marie Claire's Joanna Coles, who moved up one spot to No. 9. Coles' choice to hire Project Runway judge Nina Garcia as fashion director in May 2008 and her decision to allow camera crews into the editorial offices via The Style Network's reality series Running in Heels elevated the magazine's profile. What's more, Marie Claire is sponsoring season six of Project Runway on Lifetime, which premiered on Aug. 20 with 4.2 million viewers–a record in the network's 25-year history.
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But regardless of the amount of publicity these glossies are receiving–and the influence their editors appear to be accumulating–there's no denying that each editor's public relations power struggle could be a race for survival rather than a battle for the throne. The magazine industry as a whole is struggling mightily; over the first half of 2009 magazine advertising dollars dwindled by 21% to $9.8 billion, according to the Publisher's Information Bureau.
But while online publications are becoming increasingly important, that doesn't necessarily mean they're taking business from print media, says Samir Husni, Ph.D., director at the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi School of Journalism. "None of these ads went to the Web, they just disappeared," he says. While he believes that magazines may never be as inflated as they once were, that doesn't mean that they–and their editors–will become totally irrelevant, either. Not if they do one important thing, that is.
"Editors need to ensure that the content in their magazines and online properties is both sufficient and relevant." Husni says. "If it's neither of those things, then yes, you're going to die."


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Curling hair for Nutcracker Clara
Posted 20 October 2006 - 08:18 AM
Posted 20 October 2006 - 08:23 AM
For the sunday matinee performance there was not time to reroll. Saturday night I took each curl pushed it up to a small curl bobby pinned it all put a hairnet on and a sleep cap...worked wonders...it looked great for the sunday performance.
Good luck!!
Posted 20 October 2006 - 08:30 AM
Then we use the "got2B curled" green goop. Basically we do not put too much hair in the curler (better to use lots of curlers). We start at the base of her neck and seperate the hair into sections for the curlers. We brush out each section and spray some of the green goop on the section ( Got2B curled). Then we roll up that curler. Continue this way until you have as many curls in the places you need.
She sleeps in the curlers with a net.
Remove the curlers and wear a net to keep the curls from stretching out too much.
The hair should be dry and clean when curling ( the green goop dries quickly)
Before removing all the curlers - unravel one of the last ones you put in to be sure it is dry. IF it is not dry - put the hair dryer on them. Seperate the curls with your fingers but DO NOT BRUSH THROUGH.
DO NOT saturate the sections in the green goop as it is not necessary, uses too much product, takes longer to dry and leaves a white residue.
The size of the curlers will depend on how big (loose) or small (tight) you want the curls. Smaller the curler, then tighter the curl (ringlets).
Hope this helps! If you cannot find the green goop - IM me and I will send you some.
Once you go down this road, you spend the rest of the time praying you never have to again!! NOTHING tests the mother/daughter relationship like a few hours of hair curling!
Posted 20 October 2006 - 08:40 AM
Our routine was curl during the day for the first show - after show we came home and washed the hair, let it dry, then reset the next morning. I must be insane becasue at one point I had two daughters in party scene! They slept better without curlers in their hair . . .
Posted 20 October 2006 - 08:48 AM
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Posted 20 October 2006 - 09:02 AM
When my daughters were in the party scene and needed curls, this worked well for us. Just to let you know, they both had long, straight hair. They would wash their hair the night before dress rehearsal, and then wouldn't wash it again until the last show(usually four days). It sounds gross, but all of us moms found out that the dirtier their hair, the better it held the curls. The first night, we would almost completely dry the hair, and then put a small amount of Dippity-Do on each curl. We rolled them in foam rollers (use alot), and then they would sit and dry their hair in an old-fashioned bonnet-type hair dryer. We then put on a hair net, and they would sleep in the rollers. Between shows on the same day, we would lightly mist with hair spray, and roll or clip each curl with bobby pins, and put on the hairnet until just before the next party scene. Each night, we would mist each curl, reroll, and again dry for a few minutes with the hair dryer. The heat is what makes the difference. Enjoy this special time - it goes all too fast!
Posted 20 October 2006 - 09:03 AM
Posted 20 October 2006 - 09:15 AM
When we took the curlers out, I would just do a 'wrist-flip' thingy to unwind the hair, which left the banana curls largely undisturbed. Immediately after the performance, usually even at the theatre, we all sat around re-rolling the curls. Again, I always spritz with the Pumping Curls and used end papers. I think we were always the last done---even when we were the first to start. She just had soooo many more curlers. But doing it this way worked very well.
The curls were usually 'softest' and a little droopy by the end of the first performance, but they were sturdier with each passing performance. Usually, we would wash her hair and start completely over after about four days. They had the curls in place for dress rehearsal, so that was about 4 'rollings' before we washed it again.
We did not 'slick' the curls into a bun for Mother Ginger. We all just loosely gathered the hair off the face, used a balled ponytail holder to hold a ponytail, then softly scrunched the curls into a bun-shape, wrapped a hairnet around it and secured it into the bun-shape with bobby-pins. From the audience the hair did appear to be in a bun, but for the girls, the bulk of the curls were retained when it was let loose again.
Posted 20 October 2006 - 09:30 AM
I am also clueless when it comes to makeup. I know the basics from the previous school but she will need lashes as Marie. My dd is very fair and freckled with nearly non-existent natural lashes. I purchased a pair of lashes at a supply store made of real hair because they looked the most natural and we tried to put them on but it was a disaster...lol. Any tips or hints? Thank you!!
Posted 20 October 2006 - 09:52 AM
I end up with three rows of curlers straight across the back of the head and then I roll the half pony. When you take off the curlers you sort of spiral them off without completely unrolling (unroll from the head first). It sounds so complicated when you write it out but in practice it is not too bad.
The got to be glued is sticky so you have to rinse your hands often - the process sounds much worse than it actually is but I recommend practicing before the show - and it is time consuming.
BTW - the half pony makes it easier to gather the hair for a bun afterwards.
Posted 20 October 2006 - 10:18 AM
Are the rollers foam covered? If so and if not, once the hair product is on to help set the curl, are you able to remove the curlers without tearing the foam off of them or getting rollers stuck because they are glued in by the gel or spray?
homeschool-we were posting at the same time. Any of you who have given this a run ahead of time - do tell.
Posted 20 October 2006 - 10:38 AM
A dry run is vital unfortunately. Now I can hear the groans out there...but if it is your first time, definitely have a go at it prior to the permormance ( like a week or more) just so you can tweek what you don't like.
One other curler tip - don't roll the curlers in the same direction. if you roll one to the left (or on top - though I usually do left and right), then the one beside it to the right ( or underneath).
Posted 20 October 2006 - 11:00 AM
She uses the clear Aloe Vera gel made by Fruit of the Earth. It works amazingly well on clean buns that always stay in place...it may work just as well for these curls. Not sure about that...but this Aloe vera works better than other gels on daily buns...so maybe the curls as well?
The OTHER suggestion I have I know will work because I have done it. Using dry hair, you apply a concentrated mixture of sugar water! Yup...you read that right! Make up a small batch of strong sugar water. Maybe about 1 cup water to 1 cup sugar from what I remember. Dissolve the sugar in the water over the stove or microwave like you would do for jello. Let cool. Then apply thin small amounts to small bunches of hair pieces as you roll them up with the foam rollers. Again don't make it too wet, but make sure it is on there and damp. Dry the hair if you need to with a dryer. Leave overnight, take our right before the show. THe hair is VERY stiff...but those curls really do last!!
Good luck!


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June 26, 2006
"I was always brutally teased for being George Harrison's son."
23 comments:
- Mickey said...
I wonder if he would have been "brutally teased" if he was a she?
- AJD said...
Or if he had not been named Dhani.
- panther33 said...
I sympathize. "Yellow Submarine" is a terrible song.
- boringmadedull said...
He would have been better off as
"A boy named Sue" - 6/26/06, 9:24 PM
- Wade_Garrett said...
I've met Dhani Harrison; he was a coxswain for the Brown University rowing team when I was on Yale's rowing team in the late 90's/ early 00's. I met him once at a party, and we spoke for a little while, and he left to refill his beer and I turned to this other guy, Dave, and said, 'I swear to God, he's the splitting image of George Harrison.' Dave told me that he was Harrison's son, and then it all made sense -- he had a British accent, and when he was introduced to me, I mistook his name for "Danny."
He's a really nice guy, and I had all the respect in the world for his father. He wasn't edgy like John or too cute like Paul, and he wasn't a clown like Ringo. He always struck me as a great musician who played music for music's sake, and I really admired that about him. - 6/26/06, 9:27 PM
- Alan said...
Speaking of Yellow Submarine....I remember my brother had a little cast iron yellow submarine that when you rolled it the Beatles would pop out the top. I wish I knew what happened to that thing....
Anyway, It's All Too Much. - 6/26/06, 9:37 PM
- Dave said...
Yeah I'm shedding a tear for this guy.
Just look at his bank account and then get back to me.
No sympathy for this dude. - 6/26/06, 9:42 PM
- downtownlad said...
My friend knows him from Brown too. He said he's a really cool guy.
- John Salmon said...
No wonder Dhani's upset-"Yellow Submarine" was Ringo's song.
George was a fairly good guitar player, but let's not get silly-he was no great talent. Lennon was a damned good songwriter, and had a great rock voice, but Paul was the serious talent in the group. For one thing, by the last few albums the Beatles did he was producing everything.
Paul was on a PBS special a few weeks ago, doing some of his and the Beatles songs, and playing guitar, electric and acoustic bass, piano, drums...and he even plays some fluegelhorn on his latest CD, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, which is brilliant. - 6/26/06, 10:16 PM
- johnstodderinexile said...
Harrison was a superb musician. He had great technique, but that technique was seldom revealed, because his playing was always -- always -- in service of the song. His greatest moments are often the statement of the musical theme. Think of the opening to "Something." Or all the slide work on "All Things Must Pass," like on "I'd Have You Anytime," or the Beatle-y opening on "Wah-Wah." For that matter, the openings of "Hard Day's Night," "Ticket to Ride," "Rain," "Day Tripper"...these riffs didn't fall off a turnip truck.
It's noteworthy that when Eric Clapton began hanging around George Harrison that it was Harrison who transformed Clapton's playing style, and not the other way round. Simple, elegant and memorable musical statements such as Harrison made during his peak years are simply not available to lesser musicians. - 6/27/06, 2:22 AM
- Eli Blake said...
John Salmon:
How could you say that Harrison was not one of the greatest of all time? He was-- if a guitar could cry, he was the one who could do it. As a pure musician, he has rarely been rivaled.
He also had the lack of an ego that held the band together probably for a couple of years longer despite the Montana-sized egos of its two lead singers.
And don't just take my word for it. Rolling Stone magazine a couple of years ago listed the top 100 guitarists (and they've been there, listened and written about all of them over the years) and they have Harrison as #21 although I think he is probably underrated at that.
I'd agree with them on Jimi Hendrix as #1, and I'd put Jerry Garcia as #2, but I'd put Harrison as #3. - 6/27/06, 4:13 AM
- Cousin Don said...
Any list where Joni Mitchell and Joan Jett are the token women guitar players over Bonnie Raitt gets no respect from me.
Besides the fact Kurt Cobain is that high. I love Nirvana but his guitar is simplistic even I can play most of his stuff and I have sausage fingers with no dexterity.
And no Joe Satriani doesn't seem quite right.
Recently the guy who's playing I like the most is the guitarist from Los Lonely Boys. - 6/27/06, 5:52 AM
- Bissage said...
Personally, I feel sorry for Dhani. No one should be "brutally teased" for any reason. On the plus side, however, the standard mother's non-palliative would have been spot on: "They're jealous of you, sweetheart."
Regarding George, I always wondered whether it was truly him playing the lead on "Octopus's Garden." I'm no musician, but the fingering seemed unusually nimble and the intonation unusually accurate. Come on. Compare it to the solo from "Dig a Pony" where it sounds like George's wearing Platex Gloves(tm) or something.
Maybe JBass or somebody could shed some light? - 6/27/06, 7:07 AM
- Pogo said...
Strange. Dhani's story is reminiscent of the plot of the movie "About A Boy", in which the main character's hatred of hearing his father's hit song over and over again is complicated by the fact that it made him rich.
- DaveG said...
No sympathy for this dude.
I could agree with you if I felt this dude was the one that pursued celebrity status and found his success in capturing it to not be as wonderful as he had hoped, but in this case I have to believe he is more a victim of his father's celebrity than anything. I don't know, of course, whether he has ever deliberately tried to benefit from whatever inherited celebrity he has or not, but absent that knowledge I fall on the side of empathy, if not downright sympathy for his plight.
And I'm damn sure he didn't choose that name for himself! - 6/27/06, 8:26 AM
- SteveR said...
Yellow Submarine was written to be a children's song and a goof at that. No different than the Barney song. Due to the movie, made popular by lots of stoned people going to see it at midnight, and that it was a Beatles song, there is no doubt it gets more credit that it should.
No one deserves to be teased, but I can't imagine it could ruin his life.
I rather think its silly to criticize George Harrison as a musical talent. - 6/27/06, 9:24 AM
- Bissage said...
Perhaps there are some comment readers who don't yet know about this. Just in case.
- James said...
I suspect this was a throwaway comment in the interview and the part about "ruined his life" was hyperbole by the reporter. In the few other brief excerpts from the interview, he seems perfectly happy and well-adjusted enough.
James Kabala - 6/27/06, 10:50 AM
- DJ H[]FF said...
i just heard Dhani is going to be on a special on Vh1 about this band Platinum Weird. i was reading that it was Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics first group in the 70s that never released their album back then, and now they're doing a special on them.
anyone else heard about this? - 6/27/06, 5:46 PM
- DJ H[]FF said...
i just heard Dhani is going to be on a special on Vh1 about this band Platinum Weird. i was reading that it was Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics first group in the 70s that never released their album back then, and now they're doing a special on them.
anyone else heard about this? - 6/27/06, 5:47 PM
- Mickey said...
Well, I still kinda wonder if he was a she, if dhani would still be teased. dhani is hindu,yes?
I love george`s playin and voice. - 6/27/06, 10:21 PM
- Michael Lantz said...
I believe that George Harrison was a great guitar player.I listed to songs like:Tomorrow never knows and I am only sleeping,and it was his ideas for the backwards guitar solos.He played the guitar through a leslie speaker and a fuzz box at the same time,In 1966 nobody was doing that.The only two guitar players that were innovative in 1966 were Jeff Beck of the Yardbirds and George Harrison ofthe Beatles.His phrases can be heard on songs like:And your bird can sing,She said She said(he is also playing the bass as well),And I love her(playing classic guitar solo),Yer Blues(with George playing all those string bends;the closest the Beatles sounded to Cream),Something(one of his greatest guitar statement of all time;a great song even Frank Sinatra covered it),Not Guilty(very fierce guitar playing;him playing lead, rhythm and solo),His playing is all over Abbey Roads and Let it be.His solo career is filled with his guitar playing.Everytime I listen to "Isn't it a pity", the song brings tears to my eyes.
- soir said...
To claim that George was "no great talent" is to claim that the While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something, Here Comes the Sun,Old Brown Shoe, If I Needed Someone, Within You and Without You, to name but a few, were never on the Beatle albums.
George's guitar solos, in the end (pun intended), outlast the Macca's for taste, technical acumen, and sheer musicality:
1) Something
2) Let it Be (both versions)
3) Dear Prudence
4) Hey Bulldog
5) Til There Was You
6) One After 909
7) Octopus's Garden
8) Fixing a Hole
9) She Said, She Said
10) Come Together
Range. Melody. Grit. Wit. Taste. Lyricism. Eclectism. ETC.
End of discussion. - 1/26/10, 6:24 PM


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Ask Yourself Why You're Doing This; or, Genealogy for Beginners | p. 1 |
They See Dead People But I Stick to the Living; or, Join Your Local Genealogical Society | p. 18 |
Interview Your Relatives and Go to Your High School Reunion; or, Rust Never Sleeps | p. 39 |
CSI: Lido Deck: The Genealogy Cruise, Part I | p. 61 |
Beaches and Burke's Peerage; or, the Genealogy Cruise, Part II | p. 96 |
Information Wants to be Free; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DNA Testing | p. 115 |
Get Back to Where You Once Belonged; or, Hitting the Road to Alabama with Cousin Mooner | p. 146 |
The Mountain and the Cloud; or, A Pilgrimage to Salt Lake City's Family History Library | p. 180 |
Ask Yourself Why You're Doing This ... and Keep Asking | p. 213 |
Acknowledgments | p. 231 |
Notes | p. 235 |
About the Author | p. 242 |
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Ask Yourself Why You're Doing This; or, Genealogy for BeginnersAsk yourself why you're doing this."
Pat Roberts, a woman with a stylish haircut, some serious jewelry, and the no-nonsense voice of a high school guidance counselor, stared out at the group of strangers who'd shown up for the introduction-to-genealogy seminar that morning at the Boulder Public Library. I suddenly realized what was coming: just like that guidance counselor, this enigmatic gatekeeper was about to tell us whether our expectations were realistic or just plain ridiculous.
"Ask yourself why you're doing this," she repeated, this time with a rhetorical spin. "If I put that question to each of you, I'd get twenty different answers. So ask yourself: What do you hope to find?"
Other people's history
In my case, it was a circus tent and a dentist. And a cattle farm in Mississippi and, of course, Windswept. I'd come to the Boulder Public Library looking for the truth, if it existed, behind both the tall tales told by my family as well as the silences. I didn't suspect scandal, but I wouldn't be surprised to find some. This seemed realistic; at least, it didn't seem totally absurd. I was also looking for one other thing: a strategy.
I was looking for Jacksons—my Jacksons, among an ocean of people who shared my name but not my DNA. Jackson is the twentieth most popular surname in the United States; in the year 2000, 666,125 Americans were named Jackson. We are legion—but whom did I mean by "we"?1
My father, Jon Anthony Jackson, is one of eight children spread out over seven states. They like each other, yet they rarely see each other. As a family, we neither send nor receive regular Christmas letters. Frankly, most of us probably feel virtuous if we can remember all the cousins' names. Now that my grandfather Jabe and grandmother Grace Jackson are dead, there is no central "home" to return to—not that many of their children visited much, anyway. Whether that is normal, I don't know, but it sure didn't make for a strong sense of heritage. I'd spent seven years getting a Ph.D. in history …otherpeople's history. It had never occurred to me to look into my own.
Recently, this lack of family narrative began to bother me. The furthest back I could trace my ancestors was three generations: my great-grandparents. That barely got me into the nineteenth century, and I started to feel a little, well, irresponsible about it. I'd spent a lot of time in graduate school tracing the history of African-Americans, people who lamented their history of enslavement not only for its obvious privations, but also because of the way slavery erased their family connections, as parents, children, siblings were separated and sold, names changed, and records lost. Something similar had happened on my mother's side of the family, Russian Jews who fled persecution to come to the United States in the brief window of time when such a migration was possible.
So what of the Jacksons? I knew they'd arrived in this country before my maternal ancestors, but how much earlier? I had no idea, and no one was discussing it at the Jackson family reunion, because there was no reunion. Ever. Oscar Wilde wrote that "to lose one parent … may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." So what if you've misplaced your entire family tree?2
Life offers some reliable milestones guaranteed to thrust family in our faces. Weddings, for example. My husband, Ben, has two uncles, one aunt, and four cousins. Me, I have six (surviving) aunts and uncles just on the Jackson side alone, with who knows how many cousins (and, sadly, I didn't). For a couple trying to plan a small wedding, you'd think the Bride's Side of the aisle would be the problem here, but no. No, because it barely occurred to me to invite any of my Jackson relatives: I hardly knew most of them. The wedding planner in me was relieved, but the Jackson in me felt, for the first time, a little sad about the etiolated state of the Jackson family horticulture.
Another major milestone was the birth of my son—or rather, the forty weeks leading up to it. It was a magical time filled with excitement … and paranoia, nausea, and more questions about my family health history than I'd ever imagined possible. Causes of death, incidents of stroke, commitments to sanitariums? I needed the information fast. The eventual birth of my healthy son did, of course, provoke all the expected but nevertheless poignant emotions related to the Circle of Life and the perpetuation of the family line, but honestly? It was the endless medical interrogations that really got me thinking about where this baby came from.
Weddings and births are happy reminders of the ways we are all connected to the billions of human beings who walked the planet before we got here (over 100 billion at last count). Funerals, of course, prompt similar thoughts, and also force us to think about our own mortality. None of my grandparents were at my wedding; they had all passed away by then—but I had only attended one of their funerals. I was never very close with any of them, but with the birth of my son, I found myself missing my grandparents and trying to remember how they looked, how they sounded, and the stories they'd told.
Jabe Cook Jackson was the most riveting storyteller among them. Born in Alabama, he was one of those southerners who turned every utterance into a memorable bon mot. Some family stories are told more often than others; among Jabe's eight children, each one might have a different version of a canonical yarn, and each version would be equally funny and vivid. Sheer numbers contributed to a Jackson family narrative pieced together according to the rules of the old game of Telephone; stories are repeated and commented upon, then subtly changed and passed not only from father to son, but also from sister to brother.
Growing up—and even now that I am,ahem,grown up—every once in a while a relative would drop a Family Bomb. A Family Bomb was one of those Jackson family stories so bizarre and unexpected that it threw everything into a new light. They usually appear in a conversation apropos of nothing in particular. One involved a mysterious black "brother" of my grandfather—a Family Bomb first dropped when I was about twenty-two. My dad just happened to mention it during an otherwise unremarkable conversation:Oh, and another thing: your white, southern grandfather grew up in Jim Crow Alabama with a black orphan boy around his own age whom he considered a brother. Never knew what happened to him.Right. Or:Actually, when we first moved to Kingsley, the whole family lived in a circus tent.Sure. And:You've never met those cousins? They're the ones who own a cattle ranch, and when they got tired of asking the bank for money, they started their own.Their own what?Their own bank.Oh.
So there was the black brother question, the circus tent issue, and the First Bank of Jackson mystery. There were others, too. Why, at Grandpa Jackson's funeral, did my righteous, devout Christian aunt Mary insist to the undertaker that my Baptist-minister grandfather—her father—was Jewish? Why did my grandparents name their home in Kingsley, Michigan, Windswept? It sounded like a southern plantation—was it an homage to a lost antebellum homestead? I didn't know. With all these questions in mind, I began to seek answers.
I hoped my background in American history would help. I had a lot of experience with old records and dusty documents, but I had never applied it to my own family. I'd gone to the introduction-to-genealogy course that morning in an attempt to bring all my Jackson relatives, dead and alive, together—if only on paper. I wanted to gather them up and make sense of them if I could.
The name gatherers
Within one second of walking into the meeting room, I'd made my first major discovery:I am not alone.It's not that I found my long-lost Jackson cousin sitting there. It was that I found so many other people, strangers to me, each on their own identical quest.
I am not aloneis a sentiment that resonates on many levels when beginning a journey of family history. In this case the numbers signified something surprising: forty-seven people had taken time off work or arranged a babysitter in order to come to the Boulder Public Library on a Tuesday morning, all to get help with their family trees. I was definitely not alone.
It didn't surprise Pat Roberts, of course. As the secretary of the Boulder Genealogical Society and its director of education, Pat had witnessed what the rise of the Internet had wrought: a whole new generation of genealogy enthusiasts eager to Google their family trees. Once the province of orphans and aspiring Daughters of the American Revolution, the world of genealogical hobbyists is now exploding in popularity, thanks in part to the immense new repositories of data on the World Wide Web. That's why Pat was here: to guide all of us in this journey—a journey that more and more people were making every day.
How many people are actually doing genealogy? According to the official Directory of Genealogical and Historical Societies, Libraries, and Publications in the United States and Canada, there are twenty-two thousand genealogical and historical societies; twelve thousand genealogical and historical periodicals; and ten thousand public and private genealogical and historical libraries, archives, and collections. Looking through the directory, I found an average of thirty to fifty genealogical societies per state, divided by county, city, and sometimes by special interests such as ethnic affiliation. That's a lot of genealogical societies—heck, that's a lot of societies, period. So much for bowling alone.
Not everyone interested in genealogy joins a society, though. Most genealogy hobbyists do their stuff on the Web, and I found even more numbers there. As with most genealogical quests, you can't go wrong by starting with the Church of Latter-Day Saints (aka the Mormons). The LDS Church began compiling family history data for religious reasons a century ago and these days their archives contain information on over one billion people. The church's Family History Library has always been open to the public, but until recently that required traveling to Salt Lake City. In 1999—hallelujah!—the church launched www.FamilySearch.org, the Web version of the Family History Library archive. Since then, over 150 million people have visited the FamilySearch Web site, with one million registered users and more than fifty thousand people accessing the site every day. And that's justonearchive. In the past few years dozens of new free and fee-based Web sites have popped up to offer different types of searches, whether for census information, birth and death certificates, or—my personal favorite—tours of "virtual cemeteries," where one can peer at all those faded headstones without scuffing a slipper. It's pretty clear: one reason more people are interested in genealogy is that it's gotten so much easier to do.
The people gathered in the Boulder library that morning probably started their searches online. If their explorations were anything like mine, they'd experienced an initial thrill (Hey! Someone named Desmond Jackson is also looking forhisancestors!) followed by a slow dissipation of excitement (Okay, there are, um, alotof people named Jackson looking for their ancestors … and somehow we're all looking for different people). I now knew what a helium birthday balloon felt like as it shriveled and drifted to the floor a few days after the party. It felt like it was time to get help.
Sometimes I think nothing in this world would ever get done without the no-nonsense grit and guidance of women over forty. Pat Roberts knew what we needed and she was willing to help. She smelled our desperation as we filed into the conference room, lunging for her information packets. We needed guidelines. We needed parameters. We needed to focus, people. Pat would provide a Plan of Action.
We'd already asked ourselves why we were doing this. But Pat was not going to make us state our motivations aloud. "Some people want to find a celebrity ancestor," she said. "In my case, my husband challenged me to find out if his family tradition was true—were they descended from a signer of the Declaration of Independence?" Pat had a friend named Jane who was already experienced in genealogical searches, and she also encouraged Pat to dig in. "I was intrigued," Pat said. "I came down here to the Boulder library and ordered microfilm from the National Archives. I turned my children loose in the children's section, and they played while I looked at the microfilm."
I groaned. Seven years of graduate school had left me a battle-scarred veteran of the University of California's army of ancient microfilm readers, massed in a herd in the half-height stacks of a dusty, windowless no-man's-land somewhere beyond the periodical room. I thought my labor in the archival mine shafts had ended when I submitted my dissertation: Did my interest in genealogy mean I'd have to descend again?
"This was 1973," Pat continued. "The copies came out on thermo paper—you can't even read it anymore. Microfilm . . ." She shook her head. I did, too. "You cranked it … it's ugly . . ." Yes it is. I could almost see my as-yet-unpopulated family tree begin to wither, leafless.
"But what we did back then was a totally different type of genealogy," Pat said.
I perked up and I'm pretty sure several others in the room, perhaps with their own hellish microfilm memories, did, too. Pat explained that while it was still necessary to use microfilm from time to time, the Internet had revolutionized the practice of genealogical research. Not only were many archival resources online, but "now, with the Internet, we're communicating with people we never would have found before … ever, ever, ever." It was now possible to find distant relatives online—relatives who might already have done a lot of your family research for you. Now we were getting somewhere.
"We're getting our hands on stuff we never would get before," Pat said. "Back then, genealogists were just name gatherers. We collected as many names, births, marriages, and deaths as we could. If it looked reasonable, we jumped on it. But we were not doing good genealogy." What she meant—and this was something I would hear a lot as I learned more about the changes in genealogy—was that very few people made much of an effort to actually verify the information they found in family Bibles and in the stories of Aunt Ida. If it was a name or date: it was good to go. Over the past few decades, even before the Internet arrived on the scene, genealogists have gotten more professional in their research. Proper citation is a big deal these days, as is good record keeping. There is more information to be had, which means there is a lot more information to organize. "I can do in two weeks what it would take me two years to do back then," Pat said, referring to her early days of research in the 1970s. My friend Matthew calls these TGFI moments: Thank God For the Internet. I hoped to have a lot of them.
Six degrees of Juan Baca
I'd begun my genealogical research on the Internet, first by looking for information about my family, but since I didn't know much about them or where to look, I started looking at other people's family trees and then at the genealogists themselves.
And I started to think about death.
You might say death is what genealogy is all about. One of the less publicized benefits of genealogical research is its role in providing a gentle acquaintance with the idea of death … specifically, one's own. As I read through the family stories of online genealogists, I was struck by their casual, even cheerful way of noting the deaths of family members in the course of relating some larger story about their research. They're not morbid, nor are they flippant; they're simply more at ease with discussions of death because it's something they consider every day. It's even more profound than that, though, because I think their deep understanding of their roots is a tangible source of comfort in the face of death; to them, death is both unavoidable and familiar. And, of course, their own work offers the promise that someday one of their own ancestors will, in turn, remember them. When it comes to postlife expectations—divine resurrection aside—what more can one hope for?
Genealogy hobbyists are not just a bunch of well-adjusted funeral attendees, though; they're also nerds. I love nerds. My definition of a nerd is someone who is extremely interested in … something. Anything. Whether experts on sports scores,Star Wars,or Michael Kors, they're all nerds to me. These are people of passion, and the object of their fascination is less important than their zeal to know everything about it. With genealogy, there is a lot of "it" to know, from understanding the limits of mitochondrial DNA to locating the long-lost manifest of an ancient schooner, these people demonstrate thatlearnis the most active verb. My name is Buzzy Jackson and I, too, am a nerd.
Skeptics often distrust the motivations of genealogists. Isn't this obsession with ancestry just … self-obsession? Isn't it just another narcissistic pastime, sort of a "six degrees of separation" game in which one's own name takes the hallowed central spot usually reserved for Kevin Bacon? (Genealogy Nerd Fact #37: In New Mexico, people use the name "Juan Baca" instead of Kevin Bacon. No one really knows why.) Common sense and the math of genealogy say no. Once one reaches back past, say, one's grandparents' generation, there are just too many ancestors for anyone to feel a seriously intimate connection. Consider the generation before your grandfather—there are sixteen people involved there. And the rules of exponents reveal that this number just keeps getting bigger and bigger—yes, exponentially—with each generation, eventually resulting in thousands, then millions of ancestors. When you go way back, say, five thousand to fifteen thousand years ago, you hit what genetic researchers call the "identical ancestors point," which basically means this: if you look back far enough, we're all cousins. If nothing else, this provides some long-sought scientific backup for the conceptual framework ofThe Patty Duke Show.
If this is narcissism, then it's a form of self-love that extends to the whole human race. Genealogy math is full of strange facts. A recentNew York Timesarticle provoked hundreds of angry reader responses when the author asserted that less than 50 percent of any one person's ancestors are men. Reader, he proved it. (His calculations looked pretty convincing to me; but I should confess that I was an English major.) Then there's evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins's explanation of how our "250-greats grandparent" is not only a grandparent shared by you and me, but also the grandparent of all living chimpanzees. Even for hard-core Darwinians, this can be a little hard to digest.3Personally, I was thrilled. Nerd alert.
Being nerds, genealogists love freaky details. Want to excite a genealogist? Just mention the 1890 Census … then hang on. The 1890 Census is theRosebudof American genealogy. As the first machine-tabulated census, it reported the United States' total population (exactly 62,622,250) in six short weeks, unlike the 1880 Census, which wasn't completed until two years before the next census took place. Administered at a crucial time in America's immigration history, the 1890 Census provided a quantifiable measure of a new, multiethnic population. The data gathered included information on country of origin, race, ability to read and write English, and much more (including whether anyone in the house was officially "idiotic." Now that's information you canuse).
Stored in the basement of the U.S. Department of Commerce Building in Washington, D.C., this trove of (future) genealogical information caught fire one night in 1921 and a quarter of the 1890 Census data was incinerated, with another 50 percent damaged by smoke and water. The accident became a key factor in the formation of the National Archives, a presumably safer home for America's in-box. But even that couldn't save the apparently doomed 1890 Census. Sometime in 1934 or 1935, all those punch cards disappeared—forever—when the librarian of Congress (who shall remain unnamed here) tacitly authorized their destruction along with a lot of other "scrap" paper.
Many, probably most nations have their own sad story of archival loss. Ireland lost nearly its entire collection of public archives, including all its census information, when the public records building in the Four Courts blew up during the Battle of Dublin in 1922. Only the few materials that had been left in the reading room were saved. Stories like these make genealogists (and historians, I must add) physically ill. So much information, lost forever; it's the Library of Alexandria all over again.
Genealogists are a dogged and frankly obsessive bunch. Human beings are record keepers. The first human records were stories, oral histories of tribal origins told to one another around the African cooking fire. Then came art and writing. Many of the oldest cave paintings depict what may be family groupings, perhaps the earliest expressions of the family tree. And virtually every ancient religion begins and ends with a story of lineage: So-and-So begat So-and-So, and so on. Historians argue that one of the hallmarks of the modern age was the emergence of bureaucracy.
Wherever you find bureaucracy, you will also find genealogists, because genealogists live for records. They may (and constantly do) scorn the carelessness and poor handwriting of the scribes and clerks who noted names and addresses in decades and centuries past, but they also deeply appreciate the fact that such documents exist. Genealogists will go to nearly any length to find a key record. And genealogists are all around us.
I had no idea.
They walk among us unnoticed; they look just like everyone else. But secretly, internally, they are plotting and planning their next research step: a trip to that remote county courthouse in Iowa; a friendly visit with the widow of the man who used to take roll at the Odd Fellows Lodge; a mental list of microfilm to be requested from the Family History Library. They're always up to something. One unproven statistic you hear a lot in the genealogy world is the "fact" that genealogy is the second most popular use for the Internet. Guess what the first one is.
Genealogists are everywhere. With their history of immigration, I assumed that Americans' interest in genealogy was probably unique, but no. It seems that anywhere people have parents you'll find an interest in genealogy. Take the United Kingdom, for example, where six million viewers tune in every week to watch the celebrity genealogy show,Who Do You Think You Are?
In the United States, the record-shattering TV premiere of Alex Haley'sRootsin 1977 is credited by most genealogists for the huge upsurge in genealogical interest among all Americans, especially among those with African heritage. The African-American theme has been a strong one in American genealogy ever since, with the DNA-aided discovery in the late 1990s of the African-American descendants of Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings.Rootsgot an update in the 2006 PBS seriesAfrican-American Lives,in which historian Henry Louis Gates guided Oprah Winfrey, Chris Rock, and several other prominent African-Americans back to their African ancestors with the help of genealogists and geneticists.
Now I was hooked. African-Americans like Henry Louis Gates found white ancestry where they didn't expect it. With a name like Jackson, it seemed possible that I might have African-American relatives I'd never met; the offspring of a relationship between one of my southern, slave-owning (or so I assumed) Jackson ancestors and, perhaps, a slave, just as the white descendants of Thomas Jefferson discovered African-American cousins they'd never known existed. I wasn't harboring conspiracy theories; everything I'd learned about American history supported this possibility. It was certainly worth looking into.
Pat's plan
It was all this that brought me to the library that morning. As I looked around at my fellow Beginning Genealogists I did feel a certain kinship, despite the reservations I shared with my fellow skeptics. The biggest turnoff for me was the notion of racial or lineal purity: a tacky sort of bloodline-based quest for status that kept registries likeBurke's Peerage, the ultimate Who's Who of the royal set, in business. As I'd explored it, though, I recognized a different, simpler impulse: the desire to understand oneself, through a better understanding of one's own family.
"Decide where you're going," Pat instructed us, "and then you can figure out how you'll get there."
I was looking for Jacksons. Check.
"You may find a family line that speaks to you," Pat said, "and other ancestors who don't want to be found. That's all right; all genealogists hit a brick wall at some point." We all nodded, confident it would never happen to a single one of us. "For instance, you might end up looking for Johnsons." She rolled her eyes. "Johnsons are almost as bad as Smiths!" Nineteen people in the room laughed. I did not laugh. If Johnsons were almost as bad as Smiths, Jacksons must be worse. Even a beginner genealogist knows that Smiths are the laughingstocks of Anglo-European genealogy, the dynastic equivalent of a common housefly. Smiths are everywhere and there are too many of them. Apparently Jacksons were nearly as bad—the moths of genealogy, perhaps. Maybe we could be the cute ubiquitous surname family, like ladybugs. It was a stretch, I knew.
"Don't get discouraged," Pat said, oblivious to the black cloud of demoralization hovering over my head. "There are ways of getting through those brick walls … though it might take years to do it." She then began to list the research strategies available to us, we lucky genealogists of the Internet age. She handed out a sheet listing over one hundred Web sites related to genealogy, from state-sponsored archives to Ellis Island passenger lists. TGFI, baby.
While the Internet is a genealogist's best friend, it cannot do the research for you. As Pat explained, although the Internet had revolutionized access to genealogical information, the basic steps of genealogical research had not changed very much since the era of the rotary phone. She outlined them for us over the next couple of hours, but I provide them here, in their distilled form:
Start with yourself.Write down everything you already know and can verify about your family history. Interview yourself and your siblings (who may know different family stories—or different versions of them—than you do) then work back.
Interview as many living relatives as possible.Whether by phone or in person, talk to your relatives, especially the oldest ones, about the family history. Ask to see family mementos such as family Bibles, old photographs, and journals, even quilts that might contain data on your ancestors.
Collect as many relevant records as possible.Vital records are key; these are records of birth, death, and marriage. Other useful records include those concerning military service, employment, census information, city directory information, etc. Depending on the record, you'll find these online, in local courthouses or libraries, and in archives such as the Family History Library and the National Archives.
Ask for help.You don't have to hire a professional genealogist, though it's an option. You can also get great advice from librarians and members of the historical organizations where your family lived. But if you ask any genealogist, they will tell you the single best resource you have is other genealogists. By simply joining a local genealogical society (believe me, there's one near you), you'll end up meeting a lot of other people with similar interests and helpful strategies. One of the hallmarks of genealogy is the sense of mutual support. Genealogists live to share information, and that's true whether you're dealing with someone in your own genealogical society or simply the name and e-mail address of a genealogist across the world that you met in a virtual genealogy chat room.
Go deeper.Once you really get rolling, you can consider other research methods, including DNA testing and visiting the actual locations where your ancestors lived. Many hard-core genealogists plan all their vacations around family history research. Depending on how far back you get, this might mean a trip overseas.
And, the most important step of all: stay organized.Be methodical in your research; write everything down to avoid doing the same searches twice. Keep notes about what you've looked at and what's left to do. Find an organizational system that works for you and stick to it. These days, most genealogists use computer programs to help them keep track of their family tree and their research trail. Invest in one.
We've all read the enigmatic phrase on the shampoo bottle:Lather, rinse, repeat. It's the same with genealogy. The basic steps—interviews, archival research, expert consultation, travel—will repeat themselves, over and over, for as long as you stay involved. That's both the beauty and the curse of genealogy: it never ends. On the plus side, your research skills improve every time you go at it, making future work a little more smooth. And for addicted genealogists, there really is no downside.
The daylong course at the library continued, and my disappointment at having a common surname dissipated. We looked at Web sites. We discussed common mistakes. We learned.
In the year that followed, I learned much, much more. That day at the library was the beginning of a journey that would lead me to an abandoned Alabama cemetery and a beach in the Caribbean. I would be politely spurned by one relative and rib-crushingly embraced by another. It was a path that would lead me through four time zones and at least three regional dialects and ultimately reward me with the genealogical equivalent of a million-dollar lottery ticket. It would also force me to think more deeply about the cycles of birth, life, and death than I ever had before. My research would make me mourn the loss of my grandparents and appreciate the health of the family still with me.
What I learned on this journey changed my perspective on some of the biggest life issues any of us contemplate: my relationship to my family and my sense of my own life path. It also changed my life in smaller, concrete ways. I learned things about American history I'd never heard about in graduate school; I tried new foods; I forced myself to study the basic tenets of genetics in order to understand my DNA results; I changed the medications I take on a daily basis as a result of learning new information about my family's medical history, and much, much more (let us not dwell on the number of extra pounds I gained while "researching" the gastronomic heritage of my southern forebears).
Just as I began this journey I happened to hear an interview with the actress Tilda Swinton, who belongs to one of only three families able to trace its lineage back to the ninth century (they are known as Clan Swinton, inBurke's Peerageterminology). When asked about what it must be like to belong to such an old family, the beautifully spoken Tilda Swinton sighed, betraying just the tiniest speck of irritation. "Everyone'sfrom an old family," she said. "Mine just wrote everything down."4
There you have it. Every single one of us alive today is by definition a member of an "old family." We don't hear about "young families" because … they died out. In genealogy, you're either old or you're dead. Whether last year or eight hundred years ago, when you're gone, you're gone. It's the chronicling of a family that links it to history. I wanted to know mine.
So, nerd that I am, I started at the beginning, just as Pat Roberts advised: start with yourself, then work backward. Lather, rinse, repeat.


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GLENDALE, Ariz. – After more MRIs (two) than pitches thrown (none) with Team Mexico, right-hander Javy Guerra was back in Dodgers camp Thursday.
Guerra knew he was going against the Dodgers' wishes when he accepted an invitation to play in the World Baseball Classic over the weekend. But it wasn't until Wednesday that he was told he had been declared ineligible to pitch for WBC because of the shoulder surgery he had last November.
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