I have heard it repeated countless times by trustworthy genealogists that George Washington had no children. Today I found out that is untru...

Three years ago I wrote a post concerning all of my ancestors and where they were during the Revolution. My ancestor David Van Every serv...

100 Years ago today, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot by Gavrilo Princip . Where were my ancestors on June 28, 1914? Newmarks/Cruvants ...

Why was November 9th chosen as the date for the International Day Against Fascism and anti-Semitism? November 9th, 1938. That was the da...

Repost with slight changes Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day . The Jewish New Year began two weeks ago. What would be an app...

A year ago I compared a photograph form the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair to a 1914 postcard of the construction of the St. Louis City Pu...

 November 9th, 1938 September 11th, 2001 What do these dates have in common? Well, Americans and Europeans write their dates different...

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

Approximately 61 km (38 miles) NW of Prague is the town of Terezin , temporarily renamed Theresienstadt by the Nazis during WWII. Even thou...

During June my wife and I went on our honeymoon. I didn't mention it here beforehand, or during, as I'm not overly fond of letting t...

The St. Louis Public Library has an online exhibit concerning the 1904 World's Fair (aka The Louisiana Purchase Exposition)  In this ...

To A Lady by Victor Hugo, From Les Feuilles D'Automne Child, were I king, I'd yield my royal rule,      My chariot, scep...

Repost from 2009 with slight changes Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day . The Jewish New Year is also approaching at the end of...

No. 6. Pocket Computer, 4 inches in diameter, with Time, Calendar, and Compass cards. (Source: Fuller's complete and perpetual calen...

A year ago I learned my 8th Great Grandfather, Myndert Frederickse (son of Frederick Van Iveren), owned a slave named Hercules. My researc...

Today’s Open Thread Thursday topic at Geneabloggers: Over the next few years – with the sesquicentennial of the United States Civil War – ...

Schicksalstag is a German word meaning, “Day of Fate.” It is used by Germans to describe November 9. Apparently it was first used by some Ge...

The poem below was written and posted last year at this time A Toast to the First and the Fourth of July for David Van Every (1757-182...

Below is one of the more interesting historical postcards I have found.  Not because of the postcard, obviously.  It was a blank slate on bo...

The Midnight Ride of William Dawes - by Helen F Moore (1896) I am a wandering, bitter shade, Never of me was a hero made; Poets have ne...