Amanuensis Monday: The Birth of Israel David Newmark - 1903

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

I began this project back in February of 2009, and since then, many others have joined in on the meme.  Why do we transcribe? I provide my three reasons in the linked post. You may find others. If you participate, feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments.
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This week I transcribe the London birth record of my great grandfather's brother, Israel David Newmark (1903-2004)

Wordless Wednesday: Some old humor for your morning

Source: The News Boy, Benton Missouri (Scott County) - December 21, 1895
(Chronicling America)

Happy Khanike!

Hanuka began at sundown tonight.  It's an 8-day celebration starting on the 25th day of the first month of Winter on the Hebrew calendar, marking the Maccabean revolt in 166 BCE.

There are only two ways to properly spell the name of the holiday: חנוכה or חנכה (The one on the left being more common today according to Wikipedia)

If you use any other alphabet, it is entirely phonetic, resulting in many options, none of them being more 'correct' than the other.  However, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research did decide that 'Khanike' most closely approximates the pronunciation.  Their spelling is one of the least used in America, though, even if it has the most academia behind it.






There are more videos in my post from 2009 at this time.

Amanuensis Monday: The Birth of Cecile Newmark - 1896

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

I began this project back in February of 2009, and since then, many others have joined in on the meme.  Why do we transcribe? I provide my three reasons in the linked post. You may find others. If you participate, feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments.
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This week I transcribe the London birth record of my great grandfather's sister, Cecile (Cissie) Newmark (1896-1973)

Amanuensis Monday: Baby Pines for Lost DaDa - 1907

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

I began this project back in February of 2009, and since then, many others have joined in on the meme.  Why do we transcribe? I provide my three reasons in the linked post. You may find others. If you participate, feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments.
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This week I transcribe a news story that appeared in the 1907 St. Louis Post Dispatch. Goldie Cruvant, who I mentioned last week, had just returned to East St. Louis from Chicago, with husband, Benjamin, and their two children. And Ben's parents weren't happy about the relationship.

Week In Review

Below are some highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heritage, and Technology.

Genealogy Resources

• The MoSGA Messenger this week has linked to or discussed several sources for digitized newspapers, including: Irish Newspaper Archive, International Coalition on Newspapers, Chronicling America, the University of Pennsylvania's list of Historical Newspapers Online,  Wikipedia's list of Online Newspaper Archives, and Google News Archives.

• James Tanner at Genealogy's Star describes The National Reporter System and why it is a good genealogical resource. He follows up with a clarification on what is meant by Courts of Record.

Technology and Digitization

• The Library of Congress has created a new blog, Copyright Matters. Their goal is to make the Pre-1978 Copyright Office Records more Accessible. "Through this blog we hope to receive your thoughts and ideas so that we can present the records online in a way that will best suit your needs." 

• Jill Hurst-Wahl at Digitization 101 asks, is every librarian a digital librarian? 

• Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter asks, Is the Personal Computer Dead?

Hot Topic

• Leland Meitzler at GenealogyBlog reported that book vendors were not being invited to sell their wares this year at the annual RootsTech conference. DearMyrtle, Genealogy's Star, Anglo-Celtic Connections, Smoky Mountain Family Historian, and others have commented.

In the News

• Menorahs are becoming popular in Ireland, even though the Jewish population is small.

Carnivals

• The 112th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy has been released.  The topic for the next issue is A Charles Dickens Christmas.  Instructions can be read at CreativeGene. 

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Other Weekly Link Lists

• Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings
• Ruth Blair's Ruth's Recommendations at The Passionate Genealogist
• Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog
• Deb Ruth's Follow Friday Gems at Adventures in Genealogy
• Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak's Genealogy Round Up at MSS's Roots World

Vacation

I will be taking a vacation from Week in Review through the end of the month.  I have scheduled several Amanuensis Monday posts.  Otherwise, any blogging will be light.

Amanuensis Monday: Goldie Cruvant - in Denver Colorado - 1914

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

I began this project back in February of 2009, and since then, many others have joined in on the meme.  Why do we transcribe? I provide my three reasons in the linked post. You may find others. If you participate, feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments.
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This week I transcribe a short excerpt from an issue of The Typographical Journal, which appears to mention Goldie (White) Cruvant, the first wife to Benjamin Cruvant, the brother of my great grandmother, Bertha (Cruvant) Newmark. (Found on Google Books)

Week In Review

Below are some highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heritage, and Technology.

• Meg Biallas at Capital Comment provides tips on How to Master the National Archives for the amateur researcher.

• Bruce Smith of the Associated Press writes that The Charleston Library Society (the oldest library in the South) "announced Friday a multi-year effort to catalog and restore thousands of rare books."

• Professional historian, Lisa Jardine, discusses how her opinions regarding genealogy and family history have changed. (BBC)

• Who won the War of 1812?  At least one historian says Canada won.

• Jim Edwards at Business Insider writes that The Death of Television May Be Just Five Years Away 

• Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers suggests Settings Every Blogger Should Know  

• Dee at Ancestrally Challenged provides us with 100 Signs You're Addicted to Genealogy

• Courtesy of Ancestry.com's YouTube Channel: Behind the Scenes with Santa Claus

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Other Weekly Link Lists

• Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings
• Ruth Blair's Ruth's Recommendations at The Passionate Genealogist
• Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog
• Deb Ruth's Follow Friday Gems at Adventures in Genealogy
• Donna Pointkouski's Donna's Picks, Link Love, and More at What's Past is Prologue
• Dianne Haddad's Genealogy News Corral at Genealogy Insider 
• Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak's Genealogy Round Up at MSS's Roots World
• Liz Haigney Lynch's Quick Links at Ancestral Archaeologist

Julie Andrews and Gene Kelly sing about their family trees

I shared this back in 2007, but there are probably one or two current readers who missed it, and others might enjoy listening to this again.  This is probably from The Julie Andrews Show (1965). 
 
Part I



Part II



On a personal note, back in 2007, I recall wondering whether I was going to end up like Gene's "Uncle Jim." Happily, that isn't the case; my fiancée last weekend was #1 on my list of things to be thankful for. For the second year running.