Whenever looking at a document, it is important to consider how and why the document was made. This helps to figure out which parts of the d...

image:  source The New Colossus Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land t...

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

The 119th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is a return to the "Swimsuit Issue" The topic for the next edition of the Carniv...

As July 1st (Canadian Independence Day) and July 4th (US Independence Day) approaches, I once again find myself thinking about my Colonial a...

A repeat of a post from 2009 You may be familiar with just the traditional 6-sided die. And when someone says "dice" that is the ...

A repeated, and slightly revised post from 2007 What to expect when your favorite genealogical conference merges with a local SF convention...

Discuss a surname and mention its origins, its geographical location(s) and how it fits into your genealogy research. Cantkert is a surnam...

Below are the ancestral surnames for my wife, Jen, alphabetized, and organized by generational distance.  Similar to how I organized my ance...

It's been a year since the last installment, but I return with the  Surname Saturday  blogging meme. Discuss a surname and mention its...

The above image comes from the Memorial Day page at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, explaining that Memorial Day is a day for reme...

NBC has chosen not to renew the television series: Who Do You Think You Are? after it's third season. From Ancestry .com: We want to...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my proje...

In the list of top ten visited pages on my blog consistently over the past few years has been a handful of blog posts where I have listed a...

One of the reasons that I fell headlong into the genealogy obsession is that at its root, it feeds a larger obsession of mine - research.  W...