Kenneth, NOTE: To our readers – please do not misunderstand this response to Kenneth. This is a friendly dialogue and discussion that I have chosen to do here on the blog to present what I believe are differing views represented in our association. Our discussion here is a little window into many ...

I generally don’t introduce myself as “Ben Gray, Southern Baptist Minister.”  I consider it a fairly wise practice on my part because when folks do (inevitably) find out that I’m not only a minster, but a minister in a Southern Baptist church, the way in which they relate to...

MASTERS OF THEIR DOMAIN I don’t want to really review the show itself, but more the change it made in our world. If I was to focus on individual events in the 9 year span of the show, I could be here for days. We all have our favourite moments and characters. Far be it from me to tell you whic...

Apple is surely running out of things to put on its iPod, given that its latest “innovative feature” is that the new iPod shuffle will talk to you. In fact, it’s the first music player that’ll talk to you. There’s a reason for that, Steve. No-one else would be silly eno...

Apple iTunes is a fantastic service, used by millions of people every week of the year. It’s easy-to-use, has almost every song you could care to buy (damn The Beatles), and is also reasonably priced. Having [...]...

Richard Cohen, writing in his Washington Post opinion column, concludes that Obama's foreign policy "realism" means that "the American century" is over. And, after misattributing them to a recent blurb for a book, he uses Obama's comments about theologian and philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr to New York...

Having been around the track quite a few times over my checkered career, I’m once again starting to pick up that rancid smell of fear which always permeates the Adverati when the economy begins its inexorable tightening of the marketing budget screws after the excesses of the “money grows on tre...

Well Apple has come through again and released a new set of its desktop computers. Some upgrades are not really that great though. Apple has updated its Mac mini, Mac Pro, and iMac systems. All of these systems have seen upgrades in the graphics, RAM, hard drive, and CPU departments. Watch [...]...

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I recently read a message on one of the online message boards that disturbed me a bit. Apparently this person is rather new to genealogy and was experiencing some frustrations.  He wrote, “I'm bummed though because I am not having any luck with Ancestry.com on finding any of my ancestors...