Robert Lee Gober  (1895-1971) is on the far left in the photograph below, holding the basketball. He is my wife's great grandfather. Ben...

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

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

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

Every year on St. Patrick's Day I've blogged about the Irish ancestry of my great grandfather, Barney Newmark. I was named after him...

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

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

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

Every year on St. Patrick's Day I've blogged about the Irish ancestry of my great grandfather, Barney Newmark. He wrote a bio o...

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

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

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

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

Below are the ancestral surnames for my wife, Jen, alphabetized, and organized by generational distance.  Similar to how I organized my ance...

This post is to announce that the blogger ... ( b'lil ayin hara ) .. is now a married man. Naturally, there are no photos to share yet...

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...

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

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

Tu b'Av is a relatively obscure Jewish holiday that falls on the fifteenth day of the month of Av (sundown Sunday, August 14 to sundown...

A few weeks ago I mentioned that there was a likelihood I might soon be blogging about new surnames, as I delve into more research on my fia...