Below are some index records I found on Ancestry pertaining to my third great grandfather, David Orel Kruvand. I do not believe the original...

Last week I discovered that NARA and Ancestry had changed the Civilian Occupations on all of their World War II Army Enlistment Records .  T...

If you copied the transcriptions of WWII enlistment records from Ancestry.com in the past, it might be prudent to do a search and see if the...

Recently Denise Spurlock of Denise's Life in the Past Lane began a new meme: Workday Wednesday .  She writes: Sometimes it seems like ...

A poem found in my maternal grandmother's collection. The type of office humor that still gets passed around today. The poem is attrib...

The photo on the left is a small part of a larger photo that I'd seen in my grandmother's collection, but I had no idea who the peop...

The National Archives (NARA) provides free access to their Archival Databases .There are a large variety of records there, including the WWI...

When I found my great-uncle Mandell Newmark's army enlistment record at Ancestry.com, under Civil Occupation it said: BANDSMAN, OBOE or ...

Can anybody read the occupation on the left? It's obviously the newspaper industry, and some sort of agent. It references Samuel (aka ...

I'm a writer by vocation and avocation. A grant writer (professional beggar) by trade, writing poetry and fiction on the side. So I enjo...