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BuffaloResearch.com
Genealogy & Local History in Buffalo, NY |
About
the Webmaster |
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Stuff She
Webmasters
Stuff She Has Written
Stuff She Researches
Stuff She Adores
Stuff She Abhors |
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| Cynthia Van Ness is pleased to announce that
her
first book,
Victorian Buffalo, has gone into its second printing at Western New York Wares and is
available at local bookstores. Out-of-towners can order it through
their favorite local booksellers or mail order through the
publisher or buy from a
certain well-known online bookseller. |
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Boring
Biographical Stuff |
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| Cynthia
Van Ness has a Master's Degree in Library Science from the School of
Information and Library Science at State University of New York
(SUNY) at Buffalo and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from
SUNY/Empire State College. She does not have a FaceBook page,
a MySpace page, or a blog. She wears several hats:
It goes without saying that the bottom five activities on this list are undertaken on her own time and are not endorsed by her employer. Want to know more? Here is the whole tedious tale--Cynthia's resume. She began her library career as a page at the wonderful Egyptianate Rochester Public Library. She knows that you are not one of those people burdened by silly librarian stereotypes. In 1996 she took a short HTML
course, but she is mostly a self-taught web designer, which is obvious,
given the primitive appeareance of this website. She became a webmaster
in December 1995, when she assumed
responsibility for Roots, which ranks
as one of the oldest genealogy websites in all of cyberspace.
Roots was launched in December 1993 at Buffalo Freenet and has since
been incorporated into BuffaloResearch.com. As a bicycle commuter who once got two broken bones thanks to a motorist's negligence (guy flung open his SUV door in her path), Cynthia adores her Breezer bike and refers those who think she is crazy to "Is Cycling Dangerous?" Cynthia is a member of:
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Stuff
She Webmasters |
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Someone
spends way too much time online.
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Stuff
She Has Written |
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Oops, there's too much damned
opinion to fit it all here. See Essays &
Rants instead. |
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Stuff
She Researches |
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Some of you will be puzzled to learn that Cynthia does not consider herself a genealogist. Though she loves local history & genealogical librarianship, she doesn't do genealogy as a hobby (or for hire, or as a favor-just-this-once-please). If this seems odd, remember that schoolteachers and pediatricians do not have to have children of their own in order to succeed at their jobs. The truth is that genealogical librarians do not find your ancestors for you, just as medical librarians do not operate on you and law librarians do not represent you in court. Those of you with VAN NESS
queries are
invited to post them on FamilyTreeMaker's VAN NESS Family
Forum. |
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Stuff
She Adores |
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Just in case you were worried that she does not have A Life.
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Stuff
She Abhors |
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You
Thought She'd Never End |
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Those of you who read all the
way to the bottom have probably figured
that this page is only a ridiculously elaborate way to manage
her bookmark collection and refer people to links that are amusing or
personally relevant. Having thus 'fessed up, she is at a loss for how
to gracefully end this little excursion, so she just hopes that it was
as pleasant for the reader as it was for the author. Updated 10 May 2008
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