Category: Misc
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That’s right! We Are Back in Business!
Over the holiday weekend a patch was released for Family Tree Maker that allowed me to sync the changes from Family Tree Maker up to Ancestry.com. It’s been 5 months since I was able to do this, and I was quite nervous. I’ve made a large number of changes over this time, but I had…
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The Man They Couldn’t Hang
Talk about sticking your neck out! John “Babbacombe” Lee had his on the line repeatedly! While he doesn’t have the Babb surname, he sure sounds like one of us! Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babbacombe_Lee John-Babbacombe-Lee-WikipediaDownload Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to…
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Mourning the, all too early, passing of Cameron Hale Chaboudy
I met Cam, or as his mother likes to call him Cameron, as a young buck at my very first Babb Family Association Reunion in 2001. We connected on an intellectual plane in a way that I don’t interphase with most people. He was one of my drinking buddies through that reunion. We met at…
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Ebay Auction: Ramon Larry Babb (1950)
1950 Georgia Institute of Technology 67th Commencement Grant Field Atlanta GA | eBay Auction ends today!
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BFA News & Notes now available for full text search.
Thirty years of the Babb Family Association’s News & Notes (N&N) is now available in a single publication as a component of the Babb Family Archives. With a single download you can query every word Jean A. Sargent & Daniel G. Babb ever wrote over the course of 52 editions. Note that there is an…
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Babb Families of America, 2nd Edition now full text searchable
A recent question from a cousin made me realize that I had never converted the digitized copy of Jean A. Sargent’s Babb Families of America into searchable text. So, I’ve updated the file for this feature to exist. You can now press Ctrl + “f” and conduct a full search of every word in the…
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The Key…
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance — and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.–Unknown This quote came across my view this week and I find it so significant right now as I’m struggling to get through…
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A Mystery Hidden in a Family Photograph
While this story isn’t about a Babb, it shows the depth of research undertaken to uncover those hidden treasures in our family photographs. It was written by a New York Times writer who is a member of the Visual Investigations Unit. They are a team of digital sleuths. My apologies for not carrying the post…
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Babb Unabridged Store is Open for Business
Just in time for Black Friday, we are hanging up a shingle and opening a store on Zazzle. We are kicking off the first assortment with the first in a series of Annual Porcelain Ornaments and a series of Coffee Mugs for each and every Genetic Lineage. There is a smattering of different items from…
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Mark Babb of Memphis on The Drought along the Mississippi River
I found this article about a Mark Babb, who is apparently from Memphis. He has been featured in an article today in the New York Times. As Drought Drops Water Level in the Mississippi, Shipwrecks Surface and Worries Rise – The New York Times (nytimes.com)