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	<description>Regular posts from each member of our corporate office in Salt Lake City. We hope you’ll notice just how passionate we are about research and about the extensive services we provide to our clients.</description>
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		<title>One Hundred Years of Social Media</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/12/one-hundred-years-of-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting thing has happened in the last few years: the explosion of social networking and social media. We have been able to be constantly updated about the activities of our friends and relatives like never before…but it’s only a 21st Century manifestation of our tendency to spy on each other.
In historical newspapers, many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Things You Never Miss Until They&#8217;re Gone</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/12/some-things-you-never-miss-until-theyre-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/12/some-things-you-never-miss-until-theyre-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An evergreen tree up the hill in the neighborhood where I grew up was decorated with hundreds of lights every year for Christmas. For decades it has been a landmark in town during the holidays, visible from a distance. It can be found on a map-painting of the city which hung in City Hall.
Last week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My pa didn&#8217;t have no pa! A beginner&#8217;s delight.</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/11/my-pa-didnt-have-no-pa-a-beginners-delight/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/11/my-pa-didnt-have-no-pa-a-beginners-delight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Johnston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ProGenealogists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[census records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting started]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Records]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.progenealogists.com/?p=1940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My interest in my family tree started early for me. When I learned in American History class that there were two Civil War generals with my surname (Johnston), I decided to find out how I was related to them. My first stop on the trail was that evening at dinner. I asked my dad what he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timeline Pedigree Charts</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/11/timeline-pedigree-charts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/11/timeline-pedigree-charts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedigree chart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timeline]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.progenealogists.com/?p=1927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Genealogists often love charts. One of the first things I&#8217;m interested in when I use a new piece of genealogical software is to see what kinds of charts they can generate. A lot of us family historians are &#8220;big-picture&#8221; people who like to see everything at once, so the more ways to do it, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Grandmother was 1/8 or 1/16 Indian Blood</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/10/my-grandmother-was-18-or-116-indian-blood/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/10/my-grandmother-was-18-or-116-indian-blood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Johnston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethnic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Native American]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got a young start on my family history. I was in high school when my interest in pursuing my family&#8217;s genealogy began. Fortunately for me, three of my grandparents were still living. Others told me one good way to get started was to interview my grandparents and help them fill out a family sheet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Record Preservation</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/10/digital-record-preservation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/10/digital-record-preservation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Backup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obsolete technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[record preservation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.progenealogists.com/?p=1895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the most valuable tools a future genealogist will have is the ability to search databases which are natively digital, by which I mean the digital record is the original record. Digital records are created along with paper records these days, so whoever is using the record won&#8217;t have to read old-style or sloppy handwriting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genealogy Books to Emulate</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/09/genealogy-books-to-emulate/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/09/genealogy-books-to-emulate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul K. Graham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genealogies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genealogical Societies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Have you ever thought about publishing your family history research but didn&#8217;t know where to begin? Forgetting the technical challenges for a moment, how would you organize the material? What is the best way to present a book-length genealogy?
The answer is, emulate the award winners! Numerous genealogical societies give awards for excellent published family histories. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genealogy in 2111</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/09/genealogy-in-2111/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Vance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genealogies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.progenealogists.com/?p=1893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The sources to which you can turn for genealogical information vary depending on the location and time period you are researching. For instance, if you are looking for your 18th-century relatives in the old country, you will certainly turn to parish records as a critical source of information &#8211; you won&#8217;t be able to count [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Converting a Large PDF to a Smaller One</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/09/converting-a-large-pdf-to-a-smaller-one/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/09/converting-a-large-pdf-to-a-smaller-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherry Lindsay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PDFs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Member Tree]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.progenealogists.com/?p=1891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I found a great bit of information on my great-great grandfather in a book digitized by Google. He was featured in a book about poets from South Dakota (and I came across this book with a simple Google search!). When I looked at the book, I was pleased to find that there were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Legends: Fact or Fiction?</title>
		<link>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/09/family-legends-fact-or-fiction/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.progenealogists.com/2011/09/family-legends-fact-or-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth VanVliet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genealogies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration and Emigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passenger Lists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starting Genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Through genealogical research, fact gets sorted out from fiction in a family legend!]]></description>
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