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Researching your roots in the lower Hudson Valley region? Centrally located with easy access to regional repositories from Poughkeepsie to New York City, I’m here for you. I’ll use my knowledge, experience and proximity helping you to achieve your Orange and Rockland county research goals. You never know WHO we might find!

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Accepted!

edX open courseware

Exciting news on the educational front! Yesterday I received my acceptance email to edX’s Copyright course. What the heck is edX? EdX is the platform through which MIT and Harvard deliver online, open courseware education for free. Berkeley has joined as well. I have been lurking for awhile for Biology or Chemistry coursework but have [...]

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Looking Ahead: 2013 at The Who Hunter

Who Hunter 2013 Goals

Whether you call them resolutions or goals, this is the time we reflect on what we’d like to accomplish in the year ahead. As I work on my budget and business plan for 2013 a few things stand out I want to share. Education I call genealogy a continuing education endeavor. There will always be [...]

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Make Fast Work of Your Census Research

Over the past week, I have been catching up on my blog reading. There were great posts about conducting extended census surveys, also known as cluster genealogy. I have made frequent use of this technique tracking down my Shivers kin. Jenny Lanctot, at her blog Are My Roots Showing?, found potential family members when she [...]

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