Robert Lee Gober (1895-1971) and Mabel Ada (Fulkerson) Gober (1901-1991) were my wife's great grandparents. The photograph below was ta...

It’s been awhile since I participated in Tombstone Tuesday. I think I’ve shared all the images I have of ancestral tombstones, but I do have...

Andrew David Van Every (1795-1873) St. George Baptist Cemetery, Brant County, Ontario My third great grandfather My only maternal V...

John Devenport and his wife Delilah Abernathy Devenport are my wife's fifth great grandparents. This tombstone is filled with inf...

My wife and I explored Southern Illinois this weekend - stopping at several of the hiking paths and other sites along the Shawnee Hills Wine...

My uncle, Stevan J Newmark, was born on October 15, 1942, the second child of Melvin Lester Newmark and Belle "Sissie" Feinstein. ...

When I first saw the below photo of my great grandfather's tombstone, I knew instantly, whoever was responsible for the inscription beli...

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

Transcription: Meyer Vulf son of Samuel Yosef Newmark Died on the 14th of Shevat 5691 (January 31, 1931, after sunset) May his soul be boun...

No image this week for Tombstone Tuesday, but I do want to talk about a minor annoyance I have in attempting to obtain an image of some ance...

Killed in Action World War II Mandell Newmark Tec 5, 163 Inf, 41st Div Jan 31, 1923 April 15, 1945 My Great Uncle, Mandell Newmark, was born...

My paternal grandmother, Belle Feinstein, was born on August 14, 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri.  The second child of Herman and Anna (Blatt)...

My grandfather, Melvin Lester Newmark, was born on August 27, 1912, on the one year wedding anniversary of his parents, Barney and Bertha (C...

My maternal grandparents Martin and Myrtle (Van Every) Deutsch are buried in Memorial Park Cemetery Myrtle Ethel Van Every was born on March...

Click for larger images No relatives here, but this is the Caribbean island where I am spending some vacation. I've been to this island...

My great grandfather, Herman Max Feinstein, was born in Poland, in 1886, the son of Selig and Annie (Perlik) Dudelsack. Upon their arrival ...

Copyrighted photo taken by Laurel Indalecio on Feb 28, 2009, at the Evergreen Alameda Cemetery, El Paso, TX. Posted with permission. My Mat...

Hebrew Transcription: Yosef son of Simcha Zelig Died on the 11th of Elul, 5661 (August 26, 1901) One of the sadder discoveries in family his...

Anna (Blatt) Feinstein, my great grandmother, was born in Poland, most likely in Łosice, about 120 years ago - in November of either 1888 ...

Bertha Cruvant was born on either Sept 29, 1886, or Sept 19, 1887. (Those are the dates Rosh HaShana fell on both years, and because she wa...