Harrowings

Harrowings

Paths to the Present Understanding of the Past

How Harold B. Gill, Jr. pioneered computer-aided historical research

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Hal Gill
Apr 16, 2025
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Recently, I was talking in my vlog here about the York County Project, the computer-aided statistical analysis of the records of York County, Virginia begun in the late 1970’s by Harold B. Gill, Jr., my late father. Among the items in a shoebox from which the following post also came a letter by his father to his mother from the time of her pregancy wit…

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