Expanded upon from a 2008 post One aspect of Kabbalah, a Jewish form of mysticism, is the interplay between numbers and letters. "Ka...

This fun mathematical post has become sort of a tradition here. I started it in 2008 , updated it for 2009 , and then updated it again in ...

Since I did this back in 2008 and 2009 I made the necessary revision for 2010. A close comparison of posts will illustrate what needs to ...

You may recall the endless debates about whether the New Century began on January 1, 2000 or January 1, 2001. (I tried to argue with friend...

Looking over the notes a cousin had made in her research on a 19th century date of death, I saw a Hebrew date (Adar 18) and civil date (Feb...

This may seem like a morbid idea for a post, but recent events spurred me to search for a list. A lot of people have been repeating the sta...

For his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun meme, Randy at Geneamusings tried out The Death Clock . It's an online application that com...

In his weekly Saturday Night Fun post, Randy at Geneamusings suggested we write about our ancestor who is #21 on our Ahnentafel charts. Ahn...

Back in May I showed you how Genealogy Can Determine Your Age . I indicated that the procedure would have to be altered slightly each year. ...

in honor of what some localities refer to as Indigenous Peoples Day or Native Americans Day: Short Math Quiz Your mother told you she was ½ ...

This takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read . Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out! 1. How many...