Genealogy Blogger Randy Seaver on Family History Blogs

Lisa Louise Cooke of the Genealogy Gems Podcast at www.genealogygems.TV interviews genealogy blogger Randy Seaver of the Genea-Musings blog at www.geneamusings.com about family history, blogging, conferences and research. Filmed at the Southern Calif. Genealogical Jamboree 2009

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. "
Mark Twain

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Fast fact about writing

In some languages, as in English and French, the modern freezing of spelling has removed the writing more and more from pronunciation and has resulted in the need to teach spelling and the growth of fallacies like the "silent" letter (a letter is really either the symbol of a sound or it is unnecessary).