Category Archives: Personal History

The history of Sam, and how he got to where he is from where he was

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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Do you remember . . . ?

Posted on December 9, 2002 by Marchbanks

The UPI teletype sat in the bathroom, where it clattered and banged and rang bells and generally carried on like something from The Front Page. Continue reading →

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Raising more ghosts

Posted on December 8, 2002 by Marchbanks

I was rummaging through a stack of cassettes a few days ago and discovered one that had no label on the case, so I pulled it out—to find that it was a tape of a radio station air-check I’d done back in 1976. Continue reading →

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