It appears my maternal grandmother, Myrtle, kept every letter my grandfather, Martin, sent home during the war, and preserved them in their ...

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. The below letter was written by my...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. The below letter was written by my...

Below is one of a series of letters my great grandfather, Melvin Van Every, wrote to my grandmother, Myrtle. The year was 1925. This is act...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. Below is a letter from one of my m...

Below are two letters from my maternal great grandparents. They were trying to console my grandmother, Myrtle Van Every, on the end of her ...

The BBC and Lee Drew at FamHist both write on the Slow Death of Handwriting. I blogged last April on how I do not blame computers and emai...

This is being written for the 54th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy The Family Language...Does your family use words and phrases that no...

A few of the letters I scanned yesterday had been written in pencil, which tends to fade over the years quicker than ink. I used a filter o...

Day One of the 2008 GeneaBloggers Games is near completion. We are supposed to keep daily stats. GB Games - Team TransylvanianDutch - Augus...

The opening ceremonies of the GeneaBloggers Games were five hours ago at 3 pm Pacific. It was a beautiful ceremony, with a lot of well-des...

Last night I was helping my mother organize photos, and a previously undiscovered box was found in a storage room. This box contained about ...

It’s not difficult to find news stories lamenting the decline of letter writing. The main culprit almost always seems to be email. Persona...

Sunday afternoon I participated in the April Scanfest . I scanned five or six letters written to and from my maternal grandparents and their...