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I Think, Therefore I Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m not sure how a native speaker of Polish would say “I think, therefore I blog” (or, indeed, if a native speaker of Polish would be inclined to say such a thing at all), but this title was the first that came to my mind when Becky at Kinexxions<\/a> tagged me with the “Thinking Blogger Award”.<\/p>\n

I don’t often write this blog with the intent to make people think, although there have been times I’ve written articles with exactly that goal in mind. More often, I get comments and emails saying “I think you’ve made a mistake here”, and so if I get people to think about what I’ve written about my family and find errors in my analysis, I certainly benefit and so does my family history.<\/p>\n

Well, the “Thinking Blogger Award” comes with a few rules:<\/p>\n

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    If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think, tag blogs with real merits, i.e. relative content, and above all – blogs that really get you thinking!<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    The origin of the meme, is at The Thinking Blogger<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Thinking<\/p>\n

    Simple, but a difficult choice, nonetheless.<\/p>\n

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    1. My first choice was difficult, not because I doubted that the blog made me think, but because the writer recently passed away. Ken Aitken was a wonderful genealogy educator and I had only begun to get to know him when he died. He was an instructor with the National Institute for Genealogical Studies in which I am enrolled, and I was able to\u00c2\u00a0get to know him through\u00c2\u00a0the Analysis and Skills Mentoring Program there. While Ken is no longer with us, his Genealogy Education<\/a> Blog is still available.<\/li>\n
    2. My second choice is someone whose writing and genealogical research I respect a great deal. Arlene Eakle provides food for thought with every entry on her blog. I found this choice difficult because I don’t know Arlene, and I don’t know\u00c2\u00a0if she will have the time to respond to this meme. Still, the Arlene H. Eakle<\/a> Blog deserves the “Thinking Blogger Award”.<\/li>\n
    3. George Morgan’s Along Those Lines<\/a> column has long been one of my favorites and his recent installments have been posted to his blog since March 2006. Well, OK, this one wasn’t a difficult choice at all because George is a good friend and mentor. I’ll be interested to see which blogs George chooses for the “Thinking Blogger Award”.<\/li>\n
    4. Schelly Talalay Dardashti’s Tracing the Tribe<\/a> Blog is well written, informative, and thoughtful. I have no Jewish ancestry (at least none so far uncovered) but Schelly’s articles have relevance far beyond the stated scope of Jewish genealogy. I was fortunate to be able to hear Schelly speak at the recent Southern California Genealogy Jamboree a few weeks ago. Listening to Schelly speak was like listening to a poet read her poems aloud .\u00a0Her lecture was absolutely captivating, and so is her blog.<\/li>\n
    5. Now, my last choice was the most difficult. I wanted to select a blog that was somewhat different from the other blogs I chose here. How to Survive Suburban Life<\/a> certainly fits the bill. Such wonderful prose. I know very little about the author of this blog other than she is a 60 year old woman living in Canada who chose to write her blog as a record for her new granddaughter. Fortunately, she has made her blog available to all the rest of us, too.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The Thinking Blogger has an interesting post and link to an online test to find out what kind of a thinker<\/a> you are .\u00a0Analysis of my answere categorized me as an Analytical Visionary .\u00a0I think the details provided in the analysis were pretty much on target:<\/p>\n