I have written before about keeping track of what calendar is being used with my Eastern European ancestors, since some territory went back ...

A summary of past posts on this topic. (The above video was created from a still wedding-day photo colorized and animated using MyHeritage ...

Hanuka isn’t going to be celebrated for a couple weeks. It begins on the evening of December 2nd, this year. However, tomorrow is the day Ha...

Last January I blogged about a mathematical coincidence . For three Jewish kin, there are records claiming alternate birth dates approximate...

George Washington's Birthday is celebrated as a federal holiday on the third Monday in February. It is one of eleven permanent holidays...

MyHeritage announced they had a free Mac version of their Family Tree Builder database software, so I decided to download it and give it a ...

My 2nd great grandfather, Moshe Leyb Cruvant, was born on June 12, 1858, according to Lithuanian records. His St. Louis, Missouri death...

In order to properly record a date from a document, you might need to know some geographical history. My paternal immigrant ancestors came...

Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun this week is to conduct some research on one's own birthdate. 1) What day of the week ...

Randy Seaver proposed a fun challenge in his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to: 1) ...

Note: the widget below will not be visible via RSS feed, or on Facebook.  Follow this link . Wolfram|Alpha - the computational engine/dat...

There isn't only one place online to go for this, however, Calendarhome is my calendar converter of choice. Genealogists are most like...

You may recall the endless debates about whether the New Century began on January 1, 2000 or January 1, 2001. (I tried to argue with friend...

Looking over the notes a cousin had made in her research on a 19th century date of death, I saw a Hebrew date (Adar 18) and civil date (Feb...