It had been awhile since I used Ancestry's "New Search" so since "Old Search" is going to disappear soon, I started ...

In the Jewish tradition, the Torah (aka “The Pentateuch” or “The Five Books of Moses”) is divided into weekly readings. The same passage is ...

Google Reader disappears on Monday As they announced back in March  the Google Reader app will be retired on July 1st. At the time I said...

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

Using my genealogy software, I first generated a lifespan report from six different family databases back in 2008 - Age is Relative , There ...

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

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. Despite an absence of Amanuensis...

Being able to identify the author of a document can be very helpful. It can be almost impossible to identify the author of a typed document...

I've blogged about my research on my Denyer ancestry before, but I thought I would create a summary post of what I have found so far. ...

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...