I posted the below photo in 2009  as an Unidentified Family phOto. Going through some family folders, the image was used on a family reuni...

Google has an interesting feature: The Google Ngram Viewer. An  n-gram references the frequency a phoneme, word, or phrase occurs across a...

As our honeymoon continued in Romania, Jenifer and I met up with my parents, siblings, two nephews, a niece, and some cousins. There were 15...

The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names is a unique international undertaking led by Yad Vashem . It is the endeavor to recover the n...

It's been almost six months since the last installment, but I return with the Surname Saturday blogging meme. Discuss a surname and me...

A month ago I blogged about the unusual difficulties I was having obtaining a photograph of my great-grandparents' tombstones through R...

The word prompt for the 21st Edition of Smile For The Camera is "Give Their Face A Place." March is Women's History month an...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I'm nearing the end of a trans...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I'm returning to transcribing ...

For several months I have been transcribing the audiotape of family history my grandfather, Martin Deutsch recorded with his brother Ted and...

JewishGen announced this morning: We have exciting news for those who are researching the Transylvania region of Hungary, as well as those ...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue transcribing the tape m...

The last two Wednesdays I have posted for Wordless Wednesda y photographs received from a first cousin of my mother's. There was no wri...

Unidentified Deutsch or Lichtmann ancestors (Transylvania)

Unidentified Deutsch or Lichtmann Ancestors (Transylvania)

The word prompt for the 15th Edition of Smile For The Camera is "they WORKED hard for the family." The professions of our ancestor...