2007
- Is Genealogy Bunk? - I respond to a Smithsonian Magazine article.
- August 31, 1902 - I deconstruct a marriage certificate
- Our Name In History: A Review - A book review of Ancestry.com's series of Surname books
- Life isn't just a series of letters or numbers, there's meaning - I muse for a few paragraphs on names, and their meanings.
- This post is for the dogs - I share the story of Fido Lincoln, and I consider how to input the names of pets into our genealogy databases
- Using Wikipedia for Research - I share some tips on how to use the popular website for research
- Do you have Malaria? Read this post. I share some discoveries from a trip to the library
- Face Recognition - I experiment with MyHeritage face recognition software
- What does this mean? - More experimentation with the face recognition software
- Jewish Mysticism and Genealogy - a look at Kaballa and how it relates to genealogy. Specifically, a look at Notaricon, Gematria and Temurah.
- My Irish Great Grandfather - A look at a bio my great grandfather wrote for himself, and an examination of its accuracy
- So You Want a Wiki? - I discuss the creation of family Wikis.
- Myrtle Ethel Van Every Deutsch (1900-1951) - A timeline of my grandmother's life
- Do Missouri's Sanborn Maps tell me where my Great Grandfather went to school? Well, do they?
- Baptisms by Proxy - I tread some political and religious waters
- Pet Sounds - I share some photos of beloved pets
- St. Louis City - 1908 - This, and its follow-up post, both examine a 1908 study of St. Louis tenements
- Punt - This, and its follow-up post, describe my attempts to locate a living cousin
- Veterans of Future Wars - It's listed #2 in the top 10 college pranks of all time, and my grandfather was involved.
- Dawes Commission: Samuel Tillman Hartley - My first Amanuensis Monday post [Complete Index]
- Data Backup Day - For Data Backup Day, I take a look at Apple's Time Machine
- July 2, 1917, East St. Louis - A look at the East St. Louis riots of 1917
- Some Frost for Friday Morning - What does Robert Frost have to say to Genealogists?
- My Area of Expertise - I try to define my expertise
- 1890 Census found in attic - An April 1st post
- America's Obituaries: Incomplete - My discovery that a popular obituary database isn't as complete as it implies
- June 2009, A month like any other? - I examine the popular meme that deaths come in threes
- Google Wave is Coming; It's Undertow Will Claim At Least One Victim - my predicative abilities aren't flawless
- Thoughts on GenealogyWise - I consider some pros and cons about a new social network
- Wolfram|Alpha - Wolfram|Alpha debuts, and I examine it in a series of post
- Web Annotation: More Competition - I look at Google's SideWiki App (Discontinued in 2011)
- Jewish Pirates: Oy Vey! - For International Talk Like a Pirate Day I conduct some research on Jewish pirates
- Accuracy of Census Information - I illustrate that census information can't always be trusted
- The Writer's Curse - I respond to a query from a new blogger asking advice
- A Tale of Two Grandmas - An update of the timeline I created in 2008 for my maternal grandmother, interwoven with a timeline for my paternal grandmother
- The Labors of Hercules - My discovery an ancestor owned a slave
- The Beeswax on Google Buzz - I look at the release of Google's follow-up to Wave. (Discontinued in 2011)
- C-Span Video Library: Not all Politics - I look at the genealogical offerings at C-Span
- Feb 1928 - Lindbergh Again Flies the Air Mail - An old postcard uncovers a historical tidbit
- Freedom - A review of a piece of software with a vary narrow focus
- Conflicting Evidence - an episode of Who Do You Think You Are encourages me to discuss how to approach conflicting evidence
- Religion and Genealogy - My approach to recording the religions of my ancestors
- Neil Gaiman, Truth, and Verifiability - I discuss a blog post by the well-known author involving Wikipedia. Neil Gaiman actually leaves a comment.
- Book Review: Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg - A book review
- The Genealogical Dark Ages: Yeah, Right - I discuss my skepticism of the thesis that knowledge will disappear in a computerized blip
- Defining the Genealogical Pursuit - Is it a hobby, an avocation, an obsession, a quest? I dive into a thesaurus and look for the proper term.
- There's One in Every Family - A look at the various types of etymologies for surnames
- The Wrong Side of History - I discuss whether it is possible to be on the wrong side of history
- Place Name Standardization - I address which name for a town should be entered into a genealogical database - the historical name, or the current name.
- March 22, 2011 - I announce that I am engaged to be married
- Using Wikipedia for Research - an update of my 2007 post
- Jewish Mysticism, Genealogy, and Tombstones - an expansion of my 2008 post
- Who Will Google Kill This Time - The introduction of Google+ inspires me to again tread predicative waters
- The Occupation of Mandell Newmark - My discovery that the information on Ancestry.com concerning my great uncle's occupation has been changed, leads to the discovery that the occupational information for everyone in the entire database has changed. This leads me to investigate the cause.
- Civil Occupation Codes: What's Going on Here?
- Civilian Occupation Codes II: NARA Discovered their Error in 2005
- Password Security - I discuss several ways to come up with secure passwords
2012
- The Sunken Gardens: From 1904 to Today - A look at a 1904 World's Fair exhibit, and what survives
- Finding My Past Part I: England and Wales Marriage Records - A 3-part exploration of the databases and records at FindMyPast
- Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names - A 2-part exploration of Yad Vashem's database of Holocaust victims
- Ancestry's New DNA Test: A Jewish Perspective - My experience with Ancestry's new DNA test, and some perceived drawbacks for those of Eastern European Jewish Descent
- Inaccuracies in Ancestry's SSDI Database - An examination of some issues with the way Ancestry.com handles the city and county of last residence in their SSDI database
- Show Me the Newspapers - A comparison of the holdings at four different online archives of digitized newspapers - with a focus on Missouri newspapers.
- Black Swan Fallacy - A look at how a common logical fallacy can trip the genealogy researcher.
Several posts related to these events might be of interest to others.
- Wedding Traditions: Silver Sixpences - Research on the origins of the phrase: "Something Old, Something New..."
- Honeymoon: Etymology - Research on the etymology of the word, 'Honeymoon.'
- Terezin: Not Your Usual Honeymoon Destination - My wife and I visited Prague on our honeymoon, and decided to make a trip to the nearby former concentration camp.
2013
- What is Dying? - Tracing the origin of a poem often read at funerals, and attributed to a variety of individuals.
- Free Art for Your Blog - An explanation of Creative Commons, and various sources for public domain artwork
- Politics, Religion and Genealogy - I share a reason why I find Genealogy inextricably entangled with politics and religion.
- Making Sense about Making Sense - A group of scientists refer to DNA testing as 'genetic astrology.'
- Data Backup Day - Making Copies - For Data Backup Day I post a cute piece of artwork by Peter Paul Reubens illustrating twins sleeping in a bed. Three days later a set of twins are born. These twins would be adopted by my wife and I in 2014.
- Correction: These Sunken Gardens Aren't Those Sunken Gardens - I discover I made an incorrect identification in my 2012 post.
- Researching Witnesses - The witnesses on documents may have been friends or relatives of the documented.
- Ancestry New Search And Phonetic Searches - a look at how Ancestry's updated search engine treats phonetic searches.
- Genealogical Thoughts on the Weekly Torah Portion - I discuss genealogical connections to a weekly Torah reading.
- Ancestry Updates their DNA Results - I compare my original DNA results I received in 2012 with the new ethnicity breakdowns from Ancestry's update.
2014
- Raising Relatives and Non-Relatives - When interpreting census documents it is easy to get parent-child relationships confused when it isn't uncommon to raise orphaned children of siblings, or for a family to adopt.
- Amanuensis Monday: Reasons for Taking Up Arms - An ancestor of my wife explains why he took up arms for the Confederacy. His reason was perhaps not a common one. Or at least, not one everyone would expect.
- Ancestry Doesn't Handle European Dates Well in Family Trees - I discover that Ancestry gets confused by the use of the European dating method (Date/Month/Year)
- Of Grands and Greats - Ancestral Nomenclature - I enter the linguistic debate on whether our uncles are 'grand' or 'great.'
- Responsibility: The Buck Stops Here - I discuss the popular meme that 'I am responsible for what I say; I am not responsible for what you understand.'
- Assumptions - A series of posts discussing assumptions we sometimes might make
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