Melvin Van Every, his honey wagon, and an unidentified girl, likely a daughter. Unfortunately, the photograph isn't clear enough to id...

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

One way to enliven a blog entry is with photography or artwork. Many entries on a genealogy blog will obviously be illustrated by photograp...

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

CAPTCHA is an ancronym for C ompletely A utomated P ublic T uring test to tell C omputers and H umans A part A Turing Test - named after...

This post has very little to do with genealogy. However, readers may still find it interesting. As everyone learns when they are young, ...

To A Lady by Victor Hugo, From Les Feuilles D'Automne Child, were I king, I'd yield my royal rule, My chariot, sceptre, va...

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 prompt at SepiaSaturday  this week contains a lot of snow, a man with a white beard, an overcoat, a lamp post, barrels, houses, a fenc...

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

Through my post last Wednesday , a commenter introduced me to Sepia Saturday . Every week they post an old photograph, and participants ar...

Jefferson Howard - Edgar Lee Masters (from Spoon River Anthology ) MY valiant fight! For I call it valiant, With my father’s beliefs fro...

The first day of every month is "Data Backup Day" For a genealogist, "Backing up one's data" can include asking y...

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...