Category: Babb Family Collection (aka Archives)
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Babb Unabridged: 3rd Edition Now Available in Print & Ebook
Get ready to dive into the exhilarating saga of The Lions of the Sea! For more than four centuries, a name has roared across the oceans! It pays tribute to the legendary Fishing Master, the valiant Sheriff, the tavern keep, the butcher, the father, the Pirate with a soft heart, the terrible ghost that haunts the shore looking…
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Babb Families of America, 3rd Edition Joins the Archives
Last year, I made an offer that if someone would come forward with an old copy of Jean A. Sargent’s 3rd Edition of Babb Families of America that I would trade it for any new book of their choice. That day came during the Babb Family Association’s reunion and today I had the opportunity to…
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Announcement: Ian Babb & Jean A. Sargent- Papers now available online
I’m so pleased to present to you the collected papers of Ian Babb. Which are now available online. The 5683 page collection represents the lifetime of research conducted by Ian on the Babb Families of England. For those of you who aren’t familiar with his work, he is the English equivalent of Jean A. Sargent,…
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The Document Dump
I’ve been busily at work since my return from England and am nearing the home stretch on the digitization of the collected papers of Ian Babb (pictured). There is a technique used by corporations and politicians alike to dump a large number of documents about an unsavory situation, just before the weekend in hopes that…
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1000 Pages Deep
I’ve now made it to Birmingham, England and spent my jet lagged day working with Cherida to get assess the collected papers of her late brother Ian and to start the work needed to begin digitalization. Having done a few test runs and with a little trial and error we are now 1000 pages into…
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Time Travel
I’m siting here waiting on my ride to the airport. My journey back in time begins today at Noon at DFW Airport, From there I fly to JFK Airport in NY and have a several hour layover, before the overnight flight to Birmingham, England, which arrives at 7 tomorrow morning local time. We had the…
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Letters & Pictures and Deeds oh my!
I am heading to England next week to appraise and digitize the lifetime of genealogical research done by Ian Babb. After decades of research, Ian passed away without having published his findings on the various Babb lineages in England. There is a longstanding gap in our body of knowledge about these Babbs. Our first Genealogist Jean A.…
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Jean Sargent’s Records now available for purchase
The first 4 copies of Jean Sargent’s collected papers is now on DVD! The collection of 34 boxes containing 399 files and 17,583 pages are now condensed into a6 GB collection on a single Dual Layered DVD for you to peruse. There is an average of 1.7 pages for each day of the 29 years…
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What’s this?
Why it is the Hard Drive that just arrived at my door with ALL of Jean Sargent’s Papers on it! 34 boxes containing 799 files and 17,583 pages are now condensed into a12 GB collection on a 5″x7″ drive. There is an average of 1.7 pages for each day of the 29 years Jean did…
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A Christmas Miracle (But not the one you might expect)
I received an email today with the most Joyous News that the digitizer has completed the scanning of Jean Sargent’s papers and will have us the finsihed images by Mid-January. What a wonderful way to start the new year! The digitization project would never have been completed without the dedication and persistence of Charlotte Powers,…
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Almost half way done digitizing Jean Sargent’s Papers
I heard back from the company that is scanning our former Genealogist’s collected papers and they are done scanning the first 15 of the 34 total boxes. They are preparing the searchable PDFs of the scanned images and assembling them into groups that mirror the individual folders Jean kept. So far, they have scanned 9751…