Below on the left you see an obituary that appeared in the August 11, 2017 St. Louis Post Dispatch. Legacy  has an ObitMessenger  servi...

Obituaries can be great resources for filling in both recent and past generations of branches of your family tree, but one has to be very ca...

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

I just received an email from Legacy.com.  (The date in the first paragraph says 11/16, but I received the email today, 11/18) Dear ObitMes...

This week, for Follow Friday, I'd like to recommend another indexing project similar to the two I mentioned last week, though this one w...

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

poster by the footnoteMaven The assignment for the 81st Carnival of Genealogy: "If your blog ended or was lost/deleted today, how would...

CURRENT INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND HERE One of the problems with the blog-format is that one finds oneself rewriting old posts with updated ...

The below information is outdated. Please follow this link for more recent info. A month ago I wrote about the St. Louis City Public Li...

So I was visiting a local message board where someone asked for help in looking up an obituary. Being the helpful sort, I checked the St. L...

The below information is outdated. Please follow this link for more recent info. The St. Louis City Public Library website offers two w...

A week ago the mother of a good friend passed away. The family didn't want a crowd at the funeral so my friend was quiet for a week. Whi...

The topic for the 57th Carnival of Genealogy is: I read it in the news! Newspapers can be a wonderful source of family history information. ...

One of the non-genealogy newsfeeds I subscribe to is Snopes.com's Urban Legends . So whenever they analyze the claims of a new chain em...