Family history
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The Halifax Explosion, 6th December 1917: Epitaph for Merle Huggins, a schoolgirl
On this day, 6th December 2015, a ceremony is underway to commemorate the Halifax Explosion which devastated the north end of the city ninety-eight years ago. Every year, people gather beside the Halifax Explosion Memorial Bell Tower, to mark the wartime marine disaster which killed 2,000 people, injured another 9,000, and left 25,000 homeless. One-third… Continue reading
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Acknowledgements (the first iteration)
This morning dawned unseasonably cold and damp, more like mid-November than mid-September. After fighting with myself over the unseemliness, let alone the cost, eventually I gave in and turned on the furnace to take the chill out of the air. As my cerebrum began to defrost, it became apparent that this was no day to… Continue reading
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Data management and moving social history work to the Web
Talk about a data management problem! and trying to make sense of all that data. I have been researching my paternal (English) and maternal (Irish)‡ lines for fourteen years. As of today,§ the Genealogy folder on my computer contains 12.98 GB of data. According to an article posted to the BBC’s web site on December… Continue reading