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I’ve been presenting seminars recently for a variety of groups ,so I haven’t had time for blogging. I spoke to an enthusiastic group of genealogists in the Southern California Genealogy Society in October about writing family histories. At the end of the month my husband and I flew to Pennsylvania and attended the annual conference [...]
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I’ve thought a lot about Frank McCourt and his engaging memoir Angela’s Ashes since hearing of his unexpected death yesterday. McCourt published Angela’s Ashes the same year I finished the family history of my Scottish grandparents. Until writing that book I hadn’t paid much attention to the memoir genre. Frankly, I can’t remember reading a [...]
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I love the Merchant-Ivory film A Room with a View, which begins in the Pension Bertolini in Florence, Italy, where the characters played by Helena Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith have gone to escape dreary old England. They find upon arriving that, alas, their hotel room has no view. You have to have a room [...]
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