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	<title>a genealogist's sketchbook</title>
	<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook</link>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>fine quarterings on a little brass: Wentworth of Gosfield</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/154</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in Salt Lake City last month (working hard on a royal descent which has since been disproved!) a friend gave me a couple of those books which have been sliced open for digitization, rendering them highly unstable (lots of loose pages held together by string).  This is from William Loftie Rutton, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sutton &#038; Clonard: a case study in genealogical fantasy</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/145</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the annals of genealogical fantasists the Conde de Clonard is an interesting case.   The condes de Clonard descend from an Irish mercantile family in eighteenth-century Spain, the Suttons of county Wexford, of whom Don Miguel Sutton (hispanized &#8216;de Soto&#8217; or &#8216;de Sotto&#8217;) was ennobled in 1770 as the &#8216;conde de Clonard&#8217;, taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proofs of nobility for British abroad: the Hepburn diploma</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/150</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At the request of a correspondent on rec.heraldry I am posting something interesting here.  It purports to be a copy of charter of King James VI &#038; I, dated 16 July 1616, which attests the noble ancestry and good character of an expatriate Scotsman, Captain Daniel Hepburn, &#8220;legitimate son of the late Alexander Hepburn,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Magruder — how strong is the case for his parentage?</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/149</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Not particularly strong.  This is a classic case of a circumstantial argument for the identity of an early colonist, which (unsurprisingly) connects him to a mother (Margaret Campbell of Keithick) with demonstrable noble ancestry. I have just dug up the two articles by Charles G. Kurz (based on research of Thomas Garland Magruder, Jr.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>an early private English grant of arms: Mackworth</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/146</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am researching the Mackworth family of Rutland and Shropshire, who descend from Thomas Mackworth of Derby, who with his brother John (a canon of Lincoln cathedral) was granted arms privately by John Touchet, lord Audley, in 1404.  I was curious about the phenomenon of early private grants of arms until I found the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the crusading legacy and Y-DNA in Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/144</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A new genetic study (Pierre A. Zalloua et al., &#8220;Y-Chromosomal Diversity in Lebanon Is Structured by Recent Historical Events,&#8221; American Journal of Human Genetics [2008] 01.020) shows a small proportion of WES1, a Western-European haplotype within the R1b haplogroup of DNA signatures of the Y-chromosome, present among the modern Christian population of Lebanon.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English &#8216;title&#8217; offered as TV promo</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/139</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t actually seen the cable TV serial &#8220;The Tudors&#8221; but I can understand heavy marketing for its new season to cash in on the recent theatrical release of the unrelated Boleyn film (which owes much to the work of genealogist Tony Hoskins, a probable Henry VIII descendant via one of Mary Boleyn&#8217;s &#8216;Carey&#8217; children). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cousin Wilbur&#8217;s B-24 nose art — update</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/129</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As a followup to my post and queries about cousin Wilbur&#8217;s (S/Sgt Wilbur F. Whiting, USAAF) sketch for the Scrubbed Goose, the helpful folks over on the message boards at armyairforces.com haven&#8217;t been able to locate an actual aircraft with that name, but it could have been a sketch for a plane which was lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marvin Hunter Taylor WWI journal: into the German trenches</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/128</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just noticed (via google) that my grandfather is mentioned in a recent book on the war: Martin Gilbert, The First World War: A Complete History (Holt, 1994), p. 443, on the allied advance near Soissons on 18 July 1918: 
Pershing&#8217;s biographer cites the diary of Marvin H. Taylor, who recorded reaching a German machine-gun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quaternionenadler</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/125</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A query forwarded to me by a friend got me interested in the &#8216;Quaternionenadler&#8216;: a German imperial eagle with the coats of arms of the estates of the empire superimposed on it, a Hapsburg emblem popularized around 1510.  Here it is, in a beautiful painted two-page print by Augsburg artist David de Necker:

While it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marvin Hunter Taylor — journal of a WWI infantry officer</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/123</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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In the spring of 1917 my grandfather, aged 21, left college to become an infantry officer in the first wave of volunteers for what would be called the American Expeditionary Force in France; he was comissioned lieutenant in August and shipped to France the next month.  He saw service in the heavy fighting in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cousin Wilbur and the &#8216;Scrubbed Goose&#8217; (NSFW [!])</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/114</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Posting Wilbur&#8217;s Air Service Command patch got me to go back over the fragments of his war memorabilia to flesh out his service.  He was in England from February 1944 to July 1945, rigging parachutes at an Eighth Air Force Liberator base in Norfolk, but we didn&#8217;t know where.  It now looks like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sewing for the 8th Air Force</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/111</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wilbur Floyd Whiting (1919-2006) died just over a year ago, around Christmastime.  He was my grandmother&#8217;s first cousin.  His mother Mamie (Marie Henriette Lembke) was my great-grandmother&#8217;s baby sister, and she and her husband Floyd were always close to my great grandparents.  Wilbur, their only child, was sort of an auxiliary sibling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1st Crusade should not have succeeded&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/110</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“Why did the first Crusade succeed, and why should it not have?”
I often pose this question, or one substantially like it, in exams on the Crusades, or Church history, or medieval military or political history generally.  It is interesting to me how few students take the second phrase as an invitation to a moral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>genealogy, morality and the slaving legacy</title>
		<link>http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/archives/109</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Katrina Browne&#8217;s film Traces of the Trade has now been seen at Sundance, and Thomas Norman DeWolf&#8217;s book on the subject has now come out too: Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts its Legacy as the Largest Slave Trading Dynasty in U.S. History. This is a Rhode Island story, and a genealogical one.  [...]]]></description>
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