{"id":14626,"date":"2011-09-03T21:04:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T04:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=14626"},"modified":"2021-03-15T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:09:34","slug":"the-catholic-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14626","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 03 September 2011, marks the debut of a new blog called <a title=\"The Catholic Gene\" href=\"http:\/\/catholicgene.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Catholic Gene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The Catholic Gene\" href=\"http:\/\/catholicgene.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14627\" title=\"The Catholic Gene\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/catholicgeneheader.jpg\" alt=\"The Catholic Gene\" width=\"576\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/catholicgeneheader.jpg 960w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/catholicgeneheader-300x81.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conceived by noted genealogy blogger Donna Pointkouski and authored by Cecile Marie Agata Wendt Jensen (Ceil) of <a title=\"Polonica Americana Research Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.polishmission.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polonica Americana Research Institute<\/a>, Craig Manson of <a title=\"GeneaBlogie\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.geneablogie.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GeneaBlogie<\/a>, Denise Levenick of <a title=\"The Family Curator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefamilycurator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Family Curator<\/a>, Donna Pointkouski of <a title=\"What's Past is Prologue\" href=\"http:\/\/pastprologue.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What&#8217;s Past is Prologue<\/a>, Jasia of <a title=\"Creative Gene\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creativegene.blogspot.com\/\">Creative Gene<\/a>, Lisa A. Alzo of <a title=\"The Accidental Genealogist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccidentalgenealogist.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Accidental Genealogist<\/a>, Lisa (aka <a title=\"Smallest Leaf\" href=\"http:\/\/smallestleaf.com\/\">Smallest Leaf<\/a>), Sheri Fenley of <a title=\"The Educated Genealogist\" href=\"http:\/\/sherifenley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Educated Genealogist<\/a>, and Stephen Danko of <a title=\"Steve's Genealogy Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stephendanko.com\">Steve&#8217;s Genealogy Blog<\/a> (that&#8217;s me!), this new blog celebrates genealogy and family history from a Catholic perspective. The <a title=\"footnoteMaven\" href=\"http:\/\/www.footnotemaven.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">footnoteMaven<\/a> is also expected to participate in The Catholic Gene.<\/p>\n<p>The authors will relate their experiences in family history research, discuss their favorite saints, share their memories of growing up Catholic, and who knows what else.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Gene blog is just born today, so don&#8217;t expect much content yet. Be sure, however, to visit the <a title=\"Authors\" href=\"http:\/\/catholicgene.wordpress.com\/authors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Authors<\/a> page where you can see the First Holy Communion photos of some of the authors and Wedding photos of the others.<\/p>\n<p>Please come and visit us. Unlike many of the churches I visited during my recent trip to the Mediterranean, you won&#8217;t have to cover your knees and shoulders when you enter <a title=\"The Catholic Gene\" href=\"http:\/\/catholicgene.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Catholic Gene<\/a>. I look forward to being part of this new venture with my fellow authors and you, our readers. Adeste fidelis!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 03 September 2011, marks the debut of a new blog called The Catholic Gene. Conceived by noted genealogy blogger Donna Pointkouski and authored by Cecile Marie Agata Wendt Jensen (Ceil) of Polonica Americana Research Institute, Craig Manson of GeneaBlogie, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[320],"class_list":["post-14626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-the-catholic-gene"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3NU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22632,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14626\/revisions\/22632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}