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The trouble with GEDCOM
A school of red herring in a sea of bias The vitriol spewing forth from the mouths of this year’s edition of authoritarian U.S. presidential candidates is a veritable school of red herring swimming in a vast sea of bias. We have actual problems to solve that this gang is deliberately avoiding. There is a…
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The Janets, Dun and Bonar: on wives of the Jacobite period and gender bias in genealogy
I’ve mentioned how the family historian Martin Robb has inspired this journal. He and I have corresponded about the possible association we may have as cousins-X-times-removed through my patrilineal great-grandmother Christiana Berry Robb, and I can only hope my writing is a fraction as insightful as his in my investigations in future posts. Using family…