Researching The Family Tree

1950s--The SS Independence, a ship my dad took several times.

With all the news about the US Census lately, I got to thinking about how vital those records were to my own genealogy research project a few years back. My mom can trace her Sicilian roots back more than five generations with names, birth and death dates, and other details.  My dad doesn’t have more [...]

Review: Spin: A Novel by Robert Rave

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Title: Spin: A Novel Author: Robert Rave Genre/Pages: Fiction/352 Publication: St. Martin’s Press; August 18, 2009 Rating: 4 BOOKMARKS An all-access pass behind the velvet ropes of New York’s trendiest hot-spots, Spin: A Novel, dishes on the frenetic and cut-throat world that is PR.  With a little bit of fast thinking and a white lie or two, twenty-something Taylor Green finds [...]