A post for this weekend on what Memorial Day is for, besides barbecues. The above image comes from the Memorial Day page at the US Depa...

A year ago I compared a photograph form the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair to a 1914 postcard of the construction of the St. Louis City Pu...

Conducting a search at the St. Louis Genealogical Society database  this weekend I found four transcriptions of Naturalization Index Cards ...

For Mother's Day I decided to honor my maternal grandmother, Myrtle Van Every Deutsch. I've written a lot about her on this blog, tr...

Several have left favorable comments about the collage on my recent Sepia Saturday post . I originally included the collage in a 2010 post...

The theme photograph for this week's Sepia Saturday  is to the left - a machine that dispensed lit cigarettes. I instantly thought of...

Holidays on May 1st May Day   which has its traditional origins in the Celtic holiday of  Beltane  and the Germanic holiday of  Walpurgi...

In the GeneaBloggers Community, the first day of every month is Data Backup Day . For most of my backup needs, I rely on my Mac's Tim...

My wife and I explored Southern Illinois this weekend - stopping at several of the hiking paths and other sites along the Shawnee Hills Wine...

This is a picture of Jen and myself a year ago today, on April 22nd, 2012. It's amazing how quickly a year goes by. I a...

Using the "Share Page" at TheOldReader , I have simplified for me the process of sharing posts I find which I feel may be of inte...

The Midnight Ride of William Dawes  - by Helen F Moore (1896) I am a wandering, bitter shade, Never of me was a hero made; Poets have n...

Today is Holoccaust Remembrance Day - the 27th Day of the Hebrew month of Nisan. Contrary to some thought, the day was not chosen to corre...

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

Many years ago I started a series of posts I entitled, "Friday Five" based on the old internet meme of listing five random songs f...

The first day of every month is Data Backup Day. Accidents have been known to happen. We can't predict them, but we can be prepared ...

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

There are some who think discussions of politics and religion don't belong on a genealogy blog, but I disagree. Politics and religion ar...

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

It took a few days, but The Old Reader finally managed to handle the overload on its server from Google Reader users seeking a new home. I ...