Discuss a surname and mention its origins, its geographical location(s) and how it fits into your genealogy research. Hartley Hartley is...

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...

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

Part One Two Mondays ago, I transcribed the decision letter written by The Dawes Commission concerning my Hartley ancestors.  This letter...

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

Etiquette tells us to avoid discussion of Politics and Religion. However, a family historian's role is to research and tell the life st...

Below are names of ancestors, and their siblings, who I know served in the armed forces of their nation. I am including my Loyalist ancesto...

Samuel Tillman Hartley was the brother of my second great grandmother, Sarah Ann (Hartley) Denyer. His tombstone says he was born in 1825, h...

Randy at Genea-Musings for his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun asks us to travel in time. 1) Let's go time traveling: Decide what...

In 1902 Samuel Tillman Hartley testified in front of The Dawes Commission that his mother was half-Choctaw and half-Cherokee. His sister w...

I continue transcribing the testimony given in front of The Dawes Commission by Hartley kin in 1902. Continuing from where the last post le...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. Last week I posted the Dawes Commi...

Below is the testimony of Eliza Caroline (Foster) Reeves, the daughter of Sarah Ann Hartley and her second husband, George Foster. She was ...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. Apple has been transcribing a ...

The theme for the 65th Carnival of Genealogy: "The Happy Dance. The Joy of Genealogy. Almost everyone has experienced it. Tell us about...