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

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...

Repost with slight changes Today is  International Talk Like a Pirate Day . As well as the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. What would be a...

Tu b'Av  is a relatively obscure Jewish holiday that falls on the fifteenth day of the month of Av (sundown Thursday, July 26 to sundown...

JRI-Poland.org  (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland) is a must for anyone researching their Polish Jewish roots. Four of my 16 second great g...

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

December 1937 advertisement. From The Modern View , a local community newspaper. Edward Louis Oxenhandler was the brother-in-law of ...

Repost with slight changes Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day . The Jewish New Year begins tomorrow night at sundown. What wo...

I had a chance to conduct some more microfilm research recently at the local library. I am slowly going through archives for The Modern View...

As a kid I believe I knew four Hanuka songs: Maoz Tzur (Rock of Ages) Who Can Retell Oh Hanukah, Oh Hanukah The Dreidel Song Of those...

Was at the library in the microfilm section browsing issues of the St. Louis Modern View from 1915 and saw this cover page. I figured no com...

Tu b'Av is a relatively obscure Jewish holiday that falls on the fifteenth day of the month of Av (sundown Thursday, August 18 to sundo...

Below is the AncestryDNA summary for my wife's DNA matches 188 4th-6th cousin matches Below is the AncestryDNA summary for my DNA...

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

In honor of Israeli Independence Day and Jewish Heritage Month, here is part of a poem by Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) - considered by many t...

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

Violence is never the answer to anything.  - millions of people The June Rebellion, also known as the Paris Uprising of 1832, was a failu...

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

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...