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	<description>Research and Writing from Northwest Indiana by Harold Henderson</description>
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		<title>Insane persons at large in the archives</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lead article in the Summer 2010 Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly is &#8220;Elizabeth Scholfield, an Insane Person,&#8221; by Mari Margaret McLean, winner of the OGS&#8217;s third annual writing contest. Scholfield&#8217;s story is told largely through her probate and guardianship files, census records, and family charts from another researcher.
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		<title>CARLI: Illinois online collections give it the old college try</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 2006, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois has maintained digital collections, now 75 of them on a variety of topics. You can browse them by name, by topic, by medium, or by institution.
I found a couple of alumni profiles on page 6 of The Elite Journal for 10 January 1890 (volume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you rather read The Educated Genealogist, or be one?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually you can do both. The Educated Genealogist is my friend Sheri Fenley&#8217;s blog, and she&#8217;s been chronicling some of the lessons learned in moving from doing personal research to doing research for clients. Her experience is pretty similar to mine, but her descriptions of it are much funnier. I especially loved her previous definition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s mug books!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly&#8217;s cover story, &#8220;&#8216;The Grandmothers&#8217; of Aurora&#8221; by Michael R. Fichtel, describes an obscure book he found in the Aurora [Kane County] Historical Society: Reminiscences Prepared From Written and Verbal Recitals of the Personal Experience of &#8220;The Grandmothers&#8221; of Aurora in Early Pioneer Life in Illinois. The book (which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn more about Indiana vital records</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library has a blog in addition to the monthly e-zine &#8220;Genealogy Gems&#8221;? Well, it does, and the most recent post, by John, advances our knowledge of how to work with Indiana vital records sources, especially in Lake and Allen counties, two of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not finding Frank Adams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have what it takes to spend 40 years researching a missing grandfather? Don&#8217;t miss Joseph F. Martin&#8217;s wonderful story of his search in Michigan and Illinois and beyond, in the National Genealogical Society newsletter &#8220;Up Front.&#8221;
This article is a form of &#8220;research travelogue,&#8221; reviled by some genealogy journal editors for following chronology rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Genealogy News Summer 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ohio Genealogy News can stand up to most states&#8217; top-line quarterlies. This quarter features the society&#8217;s new library (grand opening outside Mansfield July 23) plus:
Tacy Arledge Lewis on &#8220;Ohio Tax Lists: Practical Applications&#8221; including where to find them;
news of Ohio vital records, including three indexes at FamilySearch Pilot website; and
news of Ohio newspaper digitizations from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belich&#8217;s &#34;Replenishing the Earth&#34; reviewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to see the difference between a blog post and a published review of the same book, you can compare this 2009 post and my review published in the current APG Quarterly, the publication of the Association of Professional Genealogists. Replenishing the Earth remains an amazing new macrohistorical take on the mass settlement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two new books from University of Chicago Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Chicago Press has gone a little gruesome this time around, at least in terms of books of potential interest to genealogists:
Michael Kammen&#8217;s Digging up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials
Robert Elder&#8217;s Last Words of the Executed (organized by era and method of execution).
Unlike Kammen, Elder&#8217;s work is said to include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methodology Monday with Least Observed Principle of Citation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rereading the first two chapters of Evidence Explained, I was struck by how many of us are so intimidated by the general principles and intermediate techniques that we don&#8217;t notice or remember the following prominently placed injunction &#8212; even though author Elizabeth Shown Mills has called attention to it often in online forums:
&#8220;Once we have [...]]]></description>
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