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		<title>Using Memoirs and Oral Histories in Writing Family History</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remembering Mammaw While many of us earnestly research and write of ancestors long buried, the family history writer can leave a legacy of stories to future generations through memoirs and oral history woven among the dry facts of name, place and time. Years ago, I began my work as a genealogist. However, it was soon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfgayle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1320116&amp;post=107&amp;subd=sfgayle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family Oral History Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been lecturing recently on the topic of &#8220;Oral History for the Genealogist.&#8221; When I get the opportunity, I like to ask my audience to give me their definition for &#8220;oral history.&#8221; I explain that lexicographers (dictionary compilers) generally create definitions from how the word is used in speech and writing. So, I tell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfgayle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1320116&amp;post=101&amp;subd=sfgayle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maximizing Research &amp; Time at the Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maximizing Research &#38; Time at the Library The strategy recommended in the above link is a 5-step process. It parallels, in concept, the strategy used by professional researchers whose expertise focuses around a specific area of knowledge, whether it is in history or science.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfgayle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1320116&amp;post=95&amp;subd=sfgayle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genealogical Proof Standards &amp; Reliable Sources (sidebar)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last essay[1,2], I mentioned that I wanted to parse the forms of sources that we, as family historians, may encounter in our research. I will do that, but first wanted to write a small &#8220;side bar&#8221; piece so that I do not seem to wander too far afield of the Genealogical Proof Standard. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfgayle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1320116&amp;post=93&amp;subd=sfgayle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Milestone in Blogging &amp; Meditations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once in a cycle the comet Doubles its lonesome track. Enriched with the tears of a thousand years, Aeschylus wanders back. —John G. Neihardt [1] When my mother died in 1991, the director at the mortuary asked me how did she like to wear her hair and did she wear lipstick or eye shadow? Her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfgayle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1320116&amp;post=92&amp;subd=sfgayle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genealogical Proof Standard and Reliable Sources (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With other projects and priorities now behind me, I can continue this series of meditations on GPS. Restating Step 1 of the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS), we are to conduct a reasonably exhaustive search in reliable sources for all information that is or may be pertinent to the identity, relationship, event, or situation in question. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfgayle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1320116&amp;post=90&amp;subd=sfgayle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genealogical Proof Standard and Reliable Sources</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her book, Evidence Explained, Elizabeth Shown Mills wrote that the most important reason to assess the reliability of sources is so that one can reach &#8220;the most reliable conclusions.&#8221;[1] Critical analysis of sources is the basis of good genealogical research. It is extraordinarily rare that one&#8217;s pedigree is already well established, documented as&#8221; proven&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfgayle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1320116&amp;post=89&amp;subd=sfgayle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genealogical Proof Standard: A Visual Map</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genealogy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered a website that I plan to put on my list of favorites. The site is owned by Mark Turner from Scottsdale, AZ (USA). Mark is a software designer by day and an avid genealogist every other waking moment. I recommend his visual map of the Genealogical Proof Standard as a quick guide. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfgayle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1320116&amp;post=88&amp;subd=sfgayle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genealogical Proof Standard &amp; The Reasonably Exhaustive Search</title>
		<link>http://sfgayle.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/genealogical-proof-standard-the-reasonably-exhaustive-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last posting, I began a deeper meditation on the first step of the Genealogical Proof Standards which reads: conduct a reasonably exhaustive search in reliable sources for all information that is or may be pertinent to the identity, relationship, event, or situation in question. Here, I want to continue that focus to describe my interpretation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfgayle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1320116&amp;post=86&amp;subd=sfgayle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Standards and GPS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A standard is like a yard stick. It is an measure of comparison for a quantity or quality; a criterion. As a matter of fact, a yard is a standard, as is an ounce, a dram, a meter, an acre, a degree, or any number of terms of measurement that we commonly use. Yet, these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfgayle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1320116&amp;post=85&amp;subd=sfgayle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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