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	<title>The Mad Genealogist</title>
	
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	<description>In this Blog I will describe my own failures and successes with my own research. I will also describe new products and features of some of the major genealogy players on the internet as well as discuss common questions I receive through my websites.</description>
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		<title>Four Illinois Cemetery Workers Charged With Digging Up Graves and Dismembering Bodies</title>
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		<comments>http://familyhistory101.com/blog/?p=213#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grrrrrrr!!! What makes me a Mad Genealogist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 The Rev. Jesse Jackson lambasted the four alleged &#8220;graveyard robbers&#8221; charged with digging up graves and dismembering bodies buried at a suburban Chicago cemetery in a moneymaking scheme.
The four cemetery workers are accused of taking cash payments from unsuspecting clients for plots of land, falsifying deeds, excavating existing graves and dumping the bones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Population Schedules and Special Censuses: 1885 Census</title>
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		<comments>http://familyhistory101.com/blog/?p=196#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ancestry.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1885]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Census]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Schedule]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the population schedules, federal, state and local governments have requested special information for administrative decisions. These special schedules can be quite useful for family historians.
An act of 3 March 1879 provided that any state could take an interdecennial census with partial reimbursement by the federal government. Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, and the territories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Dispensations</title>
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		<comments>http://familyhistory101.com/blog/?p=194#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GenMaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vital Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cousin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dispensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some religions, a dispensation was necessary, under certain circumstances, for a couple to be married in a religious ceremony. Dispensations were requested for various reasons, such as not wanting banns read or posted, a marriage between cousins, or, most commonly, a marriage between a couple of different religious backgrounds.]]></description>
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		<title>Research In Court Records – Ages of Legal Action in Courts</title>
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		<comments>http://familyhistory101.com/blog/?p=188#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GenMaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Court Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Document]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Female]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know many times I have found myself trying to figure out one of my ancestors birth date, especially before 1850 when census records only listed age ranges for everyone. Well I have a list here to help find out at least when someone was born before.
For example, I am looking for a birth date [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Cemetery Discovered at Florida Building Site</title>
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		<comments>http://familyhistory101.com/blog/?p=184#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GenMaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cemetery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A story from the Associated Press this morning&#8230;.
MIAMI  —  Historians and archaeologists want to know who was buried in an apparently forgotten cemetery uncovered in a Miami construction site.
Construction crews uncovered bones, crumbled headstones and nails and metal handles from coffins in the site off Interstate 95. A search of the lot in April failed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Original Civil War Pictures</title>
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		<comments>http://familyhistory101.com/blog/?p=179#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GenMaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Websites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil war]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received this link in an email. I am a military buff and I enjoy viewing old photos like theses.If you are a Civil War buff, you might enjoy these amazing photos also.  A lot are really morbid though. To Enlarge the picture and get further clarification, click on the pictures.  If you are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips – Substitute for Missing Marraige Records</title>
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		<comments>http://familyhistory101.com/blog/?p=176#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GenMaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Court Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vital Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courthouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divorce record]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage record]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, you go to the courthouse to get a copy of a simple marriage record&#8230;.. and you are hit with the fact that the courthouse was destroyed at some point in the past. What are you to do?
Well old Newspapers are a good option but unless you are in a major city, actual copies can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retelling of Family struggles during Civil War in Drew Co., Arkansas</title>
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		<comments>http://familyhistory101.com/blog/?p=169#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GenMaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arkansas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drew Couinty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nichols]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Officer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yankee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This letter was sent by one of my removed ancestors, Mrs, Ben Starling (Josephine Handley&#8217;s Mother) to Lillian Nichols McKeown, telling about her family&#8217;s experiences during the Civil War. This is more than likely a common story to most southern families during this time.
The treachery of war is horrible, and left scars untold. The years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips – Court Records 06/05/2009</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheMadGenealogist/~3/X0NpxONckiA/</link>
		<comments>http://familyhistory101.com/blog/?p=165#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GenMaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Court Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Administator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caswell County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://familyhistory101.com/blog/?p=165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 18th or 19th century, if a man died and left a young widow, that widow probobly would have asked that her father of brother to be named administator of the estate. This was a common practice, and for the regular  genealogist, this appointment is a wonderful clue to the young widows maiden name.
Case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Family Tree Maker 2009 Webinar</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheMadGenealogist/~3/mkxEGMNUTRE/</link>
		<comments>http://familyhistory101.com/blog/?p=160#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GenMaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ancestry.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Tree Maker 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[user]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TGN is letting users get acquainted with all the new features during an upcoming free webinar that will be held March 12, 2009 at 8pm EST. They say they will show
you what’s changed as well as demonstrate how to do some new things in Family Tree Maker 2009 like:

Use the new extended family chart
Keep track [...]]]></description>
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