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Buzzy Jackson

Buzzy Jackson
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Buzzy Jackson

Buzzy Jackson earned a Ph.D. in U.S. History from UC Berkeley, where she wrote her first book, A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them (W.W. Norton: 2005). She has received numerous writing and teaching awards, including those from... Read full bio

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Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
A. A serendipitous quest for wisdom and strong coffee.
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My life in 8 words: "A serendipitous quest for wisdom and strong coffee."
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June 16, 2010
Well, it's a miracle we made the Shaking the Family Tree book page, anyway. Please check it out and, er, "Like"...
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Shaking the Family Tree will be released on July 06, 2010 in Trade Paperback, eBook
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Shaking the Family Tree is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
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Buzzy Jackson Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan Q. What do you regret most? A. Wasting time on regret. Q. What is your biggest pet peeve? A. Casual cruelty. Q. Which living person do you most admire? A. Anyone who stands up for justice. Q. With whom in history do you most identify? A. Walt Whitman - not because I'm anything like him, but I love the way he understood the universe. Learn more about Buzzy Jackson

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Cleveland Live, December 30, 2011
...Perfect Mom, Wife and Daughter in the Uber-Liberal Confines of the Pacific Northwest.' " In The Boston Globe, Buzzy Jackson mostly agreed with Eichenberger's assessment. She found that Dederer "occasionally lapses into Erma-Bombeck-visits-the-ashram...
Atlanta Journal And Constitution, May 24, 2011
...be available to be indexed by commercial firms such as Ancestry.com. Another highlight was a presentation by Buzzy Jackson of Boulder, Colo., about her book "Shaking the Family Tree," in which she recounts how she got into genealogy and the ups and downs...
Jamestown Post-Journal, March 6, 2011
...Eating Cookbook; Sonata Mulattica, Rita Dove; Never Flirt with a Femme Fatale, Cici McNair; Shaking the Family Tree, Buzzy Jackson; Diabetes and You, Naheed Ali; Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do, Michael Sandel. ADULT BIOGRAPHY My Father at 100, Ron...
The Armchair Genealogist, June 22, 2011
...picking up. Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheeps and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist by Buzzy Jackson - Buzzy takes a look at her own family tree and the obsessive world of genealogists. I think I will find this one highly...
The Armchair Genealogist, May 17, 2011
...Paul Godges, Shaking the Family Tree,Blue Bloods, Black Sheep and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist by Buzzy Jackson and , 13 rue Therese by Elena Mauli Shapiro. I will be reviewing each of them with you at a later date.  In the coming...
Documenting the Details, May 11, 2011
...enough servers space to handle it and that the census is "sort of" indexed. The final speaker was Buzzy Jackson, author of "Shaking the Family Tree: A Writer's Perspective on Turning Research Into Writing." If you've read her book, you already know she's...
Greta's Genealogy Bog, May 11, 2011
...The first opening session speaker was David Ferriero, Chief Archivist of the United States; he was followed by Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree. Some bullets from Ferriero’s presentation were: There were 5000 attendees at NARA’s...