Category Archives: Genealogy

Stories of chasing down where we came from

Who was I named for?

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Marchbanks

It’s a fun story and at least 88% true. Continue reading →

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The genealogy pages are published

Posted on January 8, 2003 by Marchbanks

All 791 of them are fixed, tested, and ftp’d up to the server. Continue reading →

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It’s remarkable what you find when you ask the right questions

Posted on January 4, 2003 by Marchbanks

I think I just broke through a couple of generations each on my Harris, Chewning, and Campbell lines. Continue reading →

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It’s a By-Our-Lady* Good Thing

Posted on December 29, 2002 by Marchbanks

And now you know why it’s supposed to be such a bad swear-word. Continue reading →

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My Ghods, this is tedious

Posted on December 22, 2002 by Marchbanks

The grunt work generated 791 several pages of HTML, which I must now go through, doing the fiddly bits. Continue reading →

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(A time-delayed) Friday Five

Posted on August 3, 2002 by Marchbanks

My people have been in America for a long time, as immigrants go. Continue reading →

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A big, tedious, but way useful genealogy project

Posted on June 9, 2002 by Marchbanks

So far I’ve managed fifty pages of the book, which boils down to about twenty pages of Word document. Continue reading →

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Thoughts upon a tombstone photo

Posted on March 28, 2002 by Marchbanks

Despite everything, he lived to the remarkable age of 86, dying on the eighteenth anniversary of his wife’s death. Continue reading →

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