{"id":1059,"date":"2013-03-11T09:12:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2013-03-11T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:13:15","slug":"knowledge-is-not-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/11\/knowledge-is-not-power\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Knowledge is not Power&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Knowledge is not power&#8211;only applied knowledge is.&#8221; Dan Kennedy<\/p>\n<p>__If you attend my presentations at a<strong> Family History Expo<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>__If you buy my how-to-do-it books from my website&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>__If you take a genealogy class&#8211;through your own genealogical society&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>__If you study genealogy at your local community college&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And you don&#8217;t remove the shrink wrap or you can&#8217;t read your class notes&#8211;this acquired genealogy knowledge is not applied to trace your hardest-to-find ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>Some genealogists cannot get enough knowledge&#8211;their genealogy books are dog-eared.\u00a0 When I look over the audience at an Expo or seminar, their faces smile back at me with excitement.\u00a0 When the class is over, they come up to tell me of their latest discovery.\u00a0 Or they have brought the pivotal document that proves the generation tie to share with me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genealogy Power<\/strong> comes from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">knowing<\/span> what sources\u00a0 will provide the information you need and where you can get these sources.<\/p>\n<p>This <em><strong>Genealogy News Sheet<\/strong><\/em> blog is dedicated to genealogy evidence and the records and sources that supply this evidence.\u00a0 It can become a genuine source of <strong>Genealogy Power<\/strong> for you&#8211;as it has become for me.\u00a0 Information that I want at my fingertips is in every issue of this blog.\u00a0 When I need these <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">facts<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">titles<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">websites<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">reasoning<\/span>&#8211;serious genealogy reasoning, I come back again and again to these episodes.<\/p>\n<p>The <em><strong>Google Search Bar<\/strong><\/em> at the right-hand corner of each blog helps me to find just what I want quickly and easily&#8211;a <em>ready reference of <strong>Genealogy Power!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And you can get the same concrete benefit from these entries that I do.\u00a0 Stay tuned!\u00a0 Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/arleneeakle.com<\/p>\n<p>PS\u00a0 Next blog entry will give you an up-date in the continuing saga of my beloved <em><strong>GMC<\/strong> <strong>Sierra<\/strong><\/em> pickup truck.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t believe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Knowledge is not power&#8211;only applied knowledge is.&#8221; 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