Faceless Bureaucrat

Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.

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Monday, March 06, 2023

Fading Families

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Don't remember what I've written here about genealogical research. My sister did a lot during a year when she was no longer teachi...

Friday, January 28, 2022

Productivity Gains in Genealogy

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My cousin and I were remembering the old days of genealogic research. I never did any before the internet, but my sister devoted much of a...

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

New Terms: Adult Orphans and Family Tree Completists

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Learned two new terms today from reading Post and Times: "Adult orphans". This refers to those of us, including me and my wife,...

Monday, June 04, 2018

Tracing the Thread: Connections Via the Internet

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There seems to be much debate over the impact of the Internet and the web on society. Some say we're absorbed in our cellphones and shr...

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Tabarrok's Great Post re: Facebook

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Alex Tabarrok is the less prominent blogger at Marginal Revolution, but I think his post yesterday is great. He makes the point that mu...

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