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

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Her...

WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1833 The old year is gone--so uncivil was I, That I made not a couplet to bid him good bye, But now that the new yea...

Below is a photograph of my second great uncle, David Cruvant, inside his store, Cruvant's Toggery, in East St. Louis. David was the bro...

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

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heri...

When I first saw these postcards in my grandmother's boxes, I didn't scan them in, as there wasn't much on them, and what was th...

The below poem is read at many funerals. It has been attributed to several sources, but more about that below. What is Dying? I am stan...

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

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Her...

Trinity Place - Carl Sandburg - from "Smoke and Steel" (1922) The grave of Alexander Hamilton is in Trinity yard at the end of ...

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

I visited Google Analytics , and went through the search results that led people to my blog in 2012. It’s fascinating reading. Some people f...

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heri...

The first of every month is Data Backup Day Don't forget! (Image Source: Vincent Van Gogh, At Eternity's Gate , May 1890)

Below are highlights from the past year of posts, focusing on those posts I feel may be of the most interest to those who aren't related...

Below are my New Year's Resolutions from December of 1975.   As is my habit, I have protected the names of the living, in this case...

I am an aficionado of poetry. I enjoy reading, writing, and performing  the art. In the past six years I have devoted several blog posts to ...

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heri...

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