Currently I am over 2000 miles from St. Louis, however, I found a poem by Emma Lazarus I thought would be appropriate to share here. Lazaru...

I've been inspired by others who do this to put together a weekly list of blog posts that I have found notable, and related to genealogy...

Both ReadWritePoem and Totally Optional Prompts have weekly writing prompts - both with a deadline of Thursday. The creative juices still...

Happy Hanuka to all who celebrate. Last night was the first night of the holiday, and my family (parents, siblings, nephews, niece) celebrat...

It's time for the Carnival of Genealogy, and this issue's theme is: 3 Wishes! This is your chance to write a letter to Genea-Santa. ...

Since many fellow genea-bloggers are getting into the spirit of the holiday season with lots of festive posts, here is a series of 8 posts I...

Minnesota marriage database with ability to order certificates online. Dates indexed vary by county . Some go back to the 1870s, and some...

The FootnoteMaven has set December 12th as Blog Caroling Day . Yes, even bloggers have traditions. From the comfort of my blog, with Hot Tod...

Randy at Geneamusings had Census Fun with Christmas Names , and I realized something. I haven't done a Friday Five in awhile. (A Friday...

In my recent post about Canadian Ancestors a few people revealed themselves as cousins in the comments. So under the possibility they are r...

In March I mentioned the American Bottom Riverweb site, which contains a large digital archive of artifacts related to the American Bottom ...

A Family History/Genealogist actively tries to sort out truth from 'family fictions.' But what exactly does 'Truth' mean? ...

Since posting my Veteran's Day , I have found the remaining photographs, and today seemed to be an appropriate day to post an update. Be...

As the Genealogue points out the UPI's headline for an article on Michelle Obama, "Future First Lady had an Illiterate Ancestor...

Randy Seaver at Geneamusings asks Who's Number 1000? That is: Who was the 1000th person entered into your family history database. Mos...

Olive Tree Genealogy raises the topic of nicknames that aren't derived from given names - how we can't assume "Uncle Charlie...

Received an email with lots of pictures of dogs with funny captions. I felt this one was appropriate to post here, and might be the perfect...

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...