GRATITUDE - by Edgar A. Guest (©1917) Be grateful for the kindly friends that walk along your way; Be grateful for the skies of blue that sm...

I want to talk about a holiday filled with conflicting emotions. This is a holiday that remembers our ancestors’ religious persecution. This...

I subscribe to the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Day email. The OED is best known for their 'genealogy (etymology) of wo...

I missed the first edition of the Canadian Genealogy Carnival back in September. My entry for the second edtion will actually be appropriat...

Birth, marriage and death anniversaries for my ancestors and their kin during the upcoming week: Gregorian Calendar: November 23-29 Nov 25, ...

LIFE magazine has released millions of their photographs on Google Images. Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stret...

A year ago I wrote a summary of what I had spent retrieving documents. One section was devoted to the UK General Register Office, from whom...

Birth, marriage and death anniversaries for my ancestors and their kin during the upcoming week: Gregorian Calendar: November 17 - November ...

For the past year I believed my Great Grandfather, Barney Newmark, and his father Samuel Newmark, traveled from England to Canada in May of ...

My grandfathers and several great uncles who served in WWII: Mandell (1923-1945) and Melvin (1912-1992) Newmark; Martin Deutsch (1907-1991);...

Birth, marriage and death anniversaries for my ancestors and their kin during the (past week and) upcoming week: Gregorian Calendar: Novembe...

The word prompt for the 7th Edition of Smile For The Camera is Oh, Baby! Show us those wonderful family photographs of babies, or those you...

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Chesed Shel Emeth means "Kindness of Truth." Celebrating their 120th year, the Chesed Shel Emeth Society was founded on November ...

In conjunction with the US election on November 4th, the topic for the 59th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is: Politics and Our Ancest...

A few days ago I mentioned that the UK Passenger Lists had been added to Ancestry.UK, and I provided Ancestry's description of the datab...

Birth, marriage and death anniversaries for my ancestors and their kin during the upcoming week: Gregorian Calendar: October 26-November 1 O...

Ancestry.UK yesterday added incoming passenger lists (1878-1960). This database is an index to the Board of Trade’s passenger lists of shi...

A week ago the mother of a good friend passed away. The family didn't want a crowd at the funeral so my friend was quiet for a week. Whi...

Birth, marriage and death anniversaries for my ancestors and their kin during the upcoming week: Gregorian Calendar: October 19-25 October 1...